The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-21
Submarine Question Gravest and
Most Knotty Of All That the
\, president Is Now Endeayoring
To Find Some Solution For
WILL STAND FIRM IN HIS .
ATTITUDE ON DIVER SNARL
Great Trade War, Mexican Mix
up and Restraint Of American
Trade Await Some Decision
From Occupant Of White House
tAssociassd Press by ret ,fal wirslsss)
f. -ASHINGTON, November

|
~20-"Portentous" is the
word which the state department
officials are now using regarding
the international situation which
awaits the decision of Mr.. Will
son. Not only is it portentous,
but it is extremely complicated,
and the careful attention OF the
President will be devoted to un-
travelling the strands Of the tangled
Yarn Of international problems.
1t is believed in official and
semi-official circles here that he
will devote his entire time and
Thought to this work for several
weeks to come to the exclusion of
fall but the most important of do
mestic matters. Indeed save for
the preparation of his message to
congress at the opening of the
coming season, December 4, it is
declared that he will ignore all
of the purely routine matters.
Submarine Problem Hardest
1t is expected that he will de-
vote most of his time and energy to
the submarine situation. This it is
admitted is the most knotty of the
lmany knotty problems that con-
front him. The question of the re-
striction upon American foreign
trade by the members of the En-
tente group Of nations will also
come in for considerable attention,
and the President must decide
whether retaliatory measures, as
authorized by the last session of
congress shall be made use of in
that connection.
Still another question that looms
large is the answer to the Belgian
appeal for aid in stopping the de-
Portation of Belgians from their
homes by the Germans. This prob
lem already acute was rendered
more so by the pointed protest
made public by the Belgian gov
:rnment and the call upon America
to help in preserving the shattered
nation the last shred of it's ma
tional existence.
Mr.. Wilson must solve also the prob
lem of what the administration is to
do in regard to the international peace
conference between this country and
Mexico. That conference has been
dragging along now for several weeks,
and so far as 1t is generally known its
4 members have succeeded in arriving
nowhere. The question of the removal
of General Pershing and his troops from
Mexico is still unsettled, although last
week il was announced that some sort
of plan had been formulated. That
5plan was to have been made public be-
fore this.
| The threat of a great trade war after
the war is also coming up. This is a
matter of very vital Importance to the
people of the United States, as all Off
cialdom here admits, and ii is one upon
which the administration both before
and during the recent campaign de.
lolined TO express any opinion or formu-
late any policy. Mr.. Wilson must take
a stand soon, it 10 believed.
/ <"It is pretty well determined that
there are to be no great or important
alterations in the policy which Mr.. Viii.
SON has followed while in office, hut
It Is equally certain that the submarine
issue, the most disturbing problem he
has to face at present. will find him
firm.