South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-15

Of the cabinet by the PRESIDENTS request, is TO be
expected Time however. we anticipate, will tell a
different story OF the why's and wherefores and hts
tory pass better Judgment the affair than such
partisanshp. superinduced BY personal hate
he expected to this close range 20 render.
A close perusaI OF the correspondence passed be
tween the president and the secretary incident to
The latteTs resignation. shows plain enough that
there Is more between the lines than in them;
things that the correspondents themselves may IN
derstand after tho habit OF diplomatic interpreta-
ton, but concealed from the Iublic mayhap, for
diplomatic reasons In this there is least pre-
sumptive evidence that the cabinet conferences
called by secy Lansing. though they may have
suited IN the formation OF departmental poll
cies that the executive does not approve OF.
cuses rather than the reason for what has taken
place.
It win be recalled that during the time Of the
coal strike and simultaneously that renewed out
break IN the senate demanding war with Mexico.
things ala happen and there international cor
respondence. which led certain senators
mise from the door that the presidential mind
fuHctioning that in his illness things be
ing done without his knowledge yet under his az
parent authority. and committee even ap-
pointed to visit tho white house and ascertain
whether the executive was capable OF attending
70 business I. has been rumored that the coal in
by any order OF the president: likewise
that they we're responsible for the break between
tho president and Fuel Administrator Garfield. We
DO not know. and may never know, how many
things the cabinet did. under Sec'y Lanslng's dom
nation but plainly enough there was more than
this aggravated the president into indulg-
ing his apparently Sudden action.
There was the Parts conference reference to
which IS rneds IN the correspondence. and those
not now 50 short-memcried 10 want to forget,
may remember how Secy Lansing. and not only
secy Lansing but Col. House. cooperated with Wis
count Grey while the president home last
February. to overthrow all the work that had been
done during January-succumbing TO the ingenuity
OF the willy Brttisher whose diplomatic habit of
intrigue Indulgence in secret alliances balances Of
power. spheres OF influence, preferential tariffs
etc. had made him adept adept who having
driven Germany to It's madness there while pre-
lending friendship for League OF Nations wanted
t made toothless, not to interfere with the
vfctors spells.
need be surprising should time disclose
that the real reason for the open break between
the president and secretary OF state hinges some
where upon Viscount Greys statement with refer
European willingness 70 ACCEPT the Lodge
reservations 70 the League OF Nations covenant It
unusual interference-or diplomatic sug-
gestion calculated influence internal affairs
ed and received such. this not withstanding his
20 his homeland before giving expression
his views. II was no less reprehensible than many
OF the things that have been charged against Count
Won Bernstorf. should Il transpire that upon
Observing the viscounts misconduct, the presden:
took matters into his hands and communicated
with London. learning that his secretary OF
had again been cooperating with the Britisher ID
might explain what IS meant in the correspondence
fff1da In
eign relations. known by him 70 be antagonistlc
the executives wishes
Billy Bullitt. who drank vodka and musty
bread with Lenine and Trotzky, said when before
the foreign relations committee that Secy Lansing
la him Paris that he was opposed TO
the League covenant the conference had finally
framed IT, and the people or the United
States knew its terms they would accept it.
II this be true. II is circumstantial evidence at
least: plainly enough the secretary was in a frame
OF mind to want Europe TO accept the emesculatinP
reservations. and though wanting some sort
League OF Nations. not caring particularly for this
particular one.--very agreeable to viscount Greys
pronunciamento.
Thus the references to the Paris conference. tho
way Secy Lansing and vIsoount Grey worked
gether against the president in numerous ways
gether with the viscount's brief mission in Wash
iugton while the president was i'll. and while the
secretary was presuning to exercise somewhat the
functions OF chief executive is sufficient to create
suspicion. and the suspicion that perhaps the presi
dent knows more than he has told The fight begun
IN Paris under the Grey Lansing combination. 10
make the peace rather peace for the selfish vic
tors than peace to maintain peace-for which
10000 men had just bled and ded-may have
been resurrected in washington though the first
CUR was fired London
tt is dangerous business 10 lie 20 the masses OF
mankind throughout the world over 100000 fresh
graves and that the United States would not, and
that her allies must not WAS The basic prineirle
upon which Prest Wilson made his entire Paris
contest Only the short-uenoried have forgotten