New-York tribune., 1913-06-08
New Diplomatists
o, ,eu VIEWS MR. BRYAN-MR.P PAGE LoNDoN-sIR CECIL
RICE IN WASHINGTON HERRICk IN PARIS
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,.ith his deep uTedl"S VI PN '' '''
,,s,;,o habit Of dreaming aloud, is
dent enough. He amuses the Eng
~. ard the European public, but |
a,orns n EN- also. The cable re-
.r,e these things with an abruptness
r.hicb very possibly makes them seem
orse than tn are; but for this few
ID make Yowance. 1t was so with
sts blazing indisCretions about Home
p,,le and the House of Lords. 1t is so
-. no puts on the robes OF the
,aostle and Prophet of Peace and de
,,ares that while he is in office there
..ou he no NOR, war among the peo-
-. of the earth. II is so when with
hand he holds out TO England and
- other Powers a new Treaty of Arbi-
,r,,ion. and in the other the torn frag-
..,orts Of some twenty existing treaties
,,bicb he and his Government. whether
81, statute or by administrative proc
,sses seem ready to violate. Does he
mean the United States TO he an out
,ou. among nations? Does the Presi-
dent mean It?
M what is really thought of such
rroceedings YOU will hear little. hap
riv from the English Press The
ereat papers say nothing or speak with
a reserve which shows how anxious is
their desire TO preserve the existing
,ood will between England and Amer
to They do not understand such
rocklessness Of speech as Mr.. Bryan
rractises. T,,y do not believe his
own countrymon approve Of il. And
tbe cable. which does so much mis-
chief does much good when it sends us
the general American protest against
Mr. Bryans methods Of diplomacy.
He seems to have expected TO carry
everything before him by force of will.
II is thought here that his experience
az Ambassador of the United States to
California may have taught him there
are limits to his power; and taught
him also that the enthusiasm of an
amateur is no good substitute for diplo-
matte training.
There has been, and still is, great
desire 10 know something about our
new Ambassador TO England. When 1t
became known that he had been editor
of THE Atlantic Monthly the English
stood ready to welcome him as an
other Lowell. representative OF Llt-
crature When they were told he was
also publisher they were ready 10 ac-
cent him as an example of the business
side of Literature. If they wondered
2 little that his fame had not crossed
the Atlantic. they remembered that the
Atlantic is three thousand miles broad.
They printed all details which came
whether by cable or by post. Ihey
said 10 themselves:
We'll. we know good deal about
President Wilson and we feel sure he
would send a good man
For the impression here Of President
Wilson is. on the whole, good ana
favorable impression. When he an
nounced I'm his Inaugural Address,
This is not a day Of triumph; it is
day Of dedication" he struck a note
TO which there was ready response.
In America YOU may have thought II
q touch Of rhetoric: here It passed as 4
recognition Of civic duty. ] take II
for granted that. whatever party vie"
We adopt at home. We like England
and Europe 20 respect the President as
President. The name and the honor
Of the Republic are, for the time being
bound up with his. II is as when the
eminent japanese said TO the inquiring
American at Toxic:
The United States? Mr.. Roosevelt
is the United States"
admit it is not easy TO discard the
party view and keep 10 the American
view Born into the splendid brother
hood Of Massachusetts Wings, then al
most an Abolitionist, then a Repubh-
can, a Republican now. and still a
Massachusetts Whig, how can ! think
a Democratic President a good Presl-
dent? But do not maintain abroad
that is, / do not express abroad-tne
moral abhorrence Of a Democrat as
such which az home was. and still is,
part Of my spiritual inheritance. Nor
do mean 70 say that President VIII
son has yet touched the imagination of
The English as Mr.. Roosevelt did Of the
japanese.
Mr.. Page. however. gets the benefit
Of President Wilson'S prestige abroad.
whatever IL may be. II is well he
should. once here, he will be judged
on his own merits. From beyond the
ocean he shines with a reflected light.
The rays Of the morning sun ilumine
his face as he sets foot on the Baltic.
He will find when he arrives here a
predisposition TO think well Of him. BY
that time the indiscretions of the inter
viewers on the wharf will have been
forgotten. Something is known even
here Of the imaginative energy Of the
American reporter, and il is felt TO be
possible. or even probable that the an
lucky sentences which he puts into Mr.
Pages mouth came from his own. The
more so. as there is some discord in
the different accounts published in diff
ierent London papers.
Mr. Choate. who has done us many
services abroad, has now done another.
He has expressed both publicly and
privately a good and friendly opinion