The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-11-07
Diplomatic Service Shows
Weakness in Our
Methods
LACKING IN TRAINING
Roosevelt Started Reforms
But Wilson Reversed the
Process

ia such manner tho United states
would be saved many humiliauuR
and embarrassing situations. LuuH
EiuW,in, charge IL afEtirs ~ hu-
man and siberia during thc "af
believes thorc should De reform
In tho management of American dip-
lomatio atfalIN
"Thc imporIaugc ~ placing our
dIpIumncy on an efficient basis
SAID Nj tiusto.n yesterday 'is not
Il party but a national question. To
avoid the recurrence Of such dangers
as We have Iatey incurred, more
Intelligent instrument must ho de-
yisod to handle our international re-
latluus iu the broad intcrcat OF tho
American people. II ~ because W.
want peace that we need "a good
diplomacy.
""in, alternative, has been paip-
fully appn'cut in ~. diplomatic rec
ora OF the democratic administrn-
tila. II iR impossible 10 reconcile
tho most elementary idea OF cOmp"-
t,ucc with it's utter inability TO fore
see the world war.
This example must he pointed to
NOS IN any partisan sense but he
cause =. serves to bring out how
TIC failure at the most critical time
of American diplomacy to function
As the into ligcuCc service or the ma.
tiou. I'D subsequently, ns It may lead
again unless corrected, To worst re-
suits owing tn The CUmpOc In
ability to anticipate events.
yet II is simple to explain such
lack of observation and foresight on
the part OF our diplomatic APP
pointccs In European capitals. Ger
tain OF them were ahscwd and able
business men. But all wcrr un-
trained to the requirements OF their
duties. They felt unfamiliar In
diplomatic atmosphere whkh they
were unable To read and therefore
could not readily appreciate the
meaning af what theS saw a<ound
them Their duty was confined 10
routine work. Such relations as they
had with their colleagues OF other
nations was hardly ever OF n nasArc
to elicit not condolences but even
ordinary table talk.
Tcutons Talked Of Coming Conflict.
'If any personal contact had cN-
listed between our diplomats and
German and Austrian officials they
would have heard these speaking
frankly about what was coming. No
war ever camc less unheraldcd
Such Isolated talk might at FIRST
have been discarded ns dangerous
gossip. But II was heard from too
many quarters to have been lightly
brushed aside and II was accom-
pl'shed~ by too raary events OF sig
nificance. At Berlin, at Vienna. at
Constantinople our diplomats should
have read the storm signals Def
inite facts existed like the German
capital levy OF 1913, like the anti
Serb campaign coducted at vienna,
like the task OF the German mill
VNti In. kIyl
sould not easily be explained away
other warnings could have been Hlg-
nailed from the capitals OF the well
informed smaller European powers
who hlt alarmed at an impending
conflict they were powerlcss to
avert
such information. however in
discriminate. should have been
transmitted to the state department.
whore II ought to have been siftcd
and weighed. II Il had come In
. fraSmentary form The missing links
in the evidence could have been as
certained. II It was over alarming
Il could have been discounted. The
immediate deductions, SO far as We
were concerned. would have pointed
to the possibility @? military and ma
val preparedness. the certain short
age of world shipping In case OF
war. the increased power OF Japan
In the far cast. There was nothing
mysterious IN such conclusions
which were the consequence OF wha,
was almost scrtain TO happen,
Ii would be grossly unfair to
blame only president Wilson's APP
is with the entire system created by
an unrenova ed state department
and an amateurish diplomatic serv-
ice, neither Of which e. any longer
adequate to our national necessities.
"ln even the circumstances leading
up to the great war had been noted
by our missions abroad, such intor-
nation would almost certainly have
Hbccn pigeon -holcd at Washington. II
Ewould uaye hcon regarded there az
80 cs Of Isolated Items without
further connection or calling for fur
thor action, Tho machinery did not
exist tu aupINZc and coordinate
such reports In order to prepare
them Tor executive Judgment and
the tramiug a national policy Yet
such foresight, elemental as It was
might have saved us thousands of
lives, muuW'a OF dollars and even
have Rycrted Sur.
Are furthor illustration OF dlplo.
matte Incompetence wanted and ot
the sPasmud.C and contradictory
ways in which our foreign policy has
been Conducted?
I'm Mexico we find Vera Cru5
occupied as the result OF one polic
and evacuated as tho result of am.
other; Carranza Is backed aEnfus
Buerta and villa against Currnz
General Porshiug is frst ordered I,
capture villa and then ordered I,
retire without accomplishing hi
mission. Anyone of these poliri,
may have been correct, all could d.
correct, Yet their practical rcmI
has involved the loss of hundreds u
lives. the wastags OF hundreds o
millions Of dollars and the lowerin
of our prestige.
Contradictions Ancnt Russia.
I'm Russia we see the same cor
trndictions. when we werc still IN
associates OF Russia ana the bo
shevilSi- "A struggling minority part
we followed policy or noninte,
ference. Later Bulltt Is sent to Moi
COW and Nerron appointed TO n,
got'ate at Prinkipo
"On the other hand, we hay
Archangel and the siberian failur
and aid promised Kolchak and Il
blockade. Military supplies are la
ishod on the Poles with unlimit'
pledges to asiist them, The Con
note comes out against peace at Il