The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14
Election Stirs Up Hopes of Rival Nations

and material considerations On the con-
trary, there was and there remains a very
widespread feeling among liberal English
men that the partnership of the United
States and Great Britain represents for both,
aside from material benefits. a thing wholly
desirable in itself and best calculated to pre-
serve the peace of the world. My own ex-
perience leads me to believe that on the
whole there are more Englishmen unselishly
friendly to the United States than vice
versa.
But this sentiment this British liking for
the United States, while it colored the whole
surface of the waters at Paris, did not con-
troll. could not and cannot control British
policy as contrasted with British sentiment
is COOL calculating; if Lloyd George is mer-
curial, an opportunist, the ablest diagnos-
tician of the passing currents of public opin-
ion in his own country superior in mannuvre
to every statesman OF. any other state whom
he has encountered during the war or since,
behind Lloyd George lies the tradition and
the fact of the ablest diplomacy in the world
We may be certain then that just as at
the moment when it was announced Presi-
dent Wilson was coming to Europe and
that his main purpose was to establish
league of nations Lord Robert Cecil Gen.
Shuts Lord Eustace Percy and score OF
other British statesmen set out to frame the
satisfy the President and accord with British
interests, an equally astute association Of
Britons are already at work seeking to per-
form the same service for Presdent-elect
Harding. And the main idea, after all, will
be to save in the new document what was
gained in the last.
Eliminated Amy Possible Anglo-Saxon
Disputes.
ole 4 hat
ment assure? In practice even more than
in phrase, 1t consolidated American relations
with Great Britain in such fashion as to
eliminate all chance of Anglo American dis
putes! This was negative but not unim-
portant in addition it associated the United
States with the British in almost every dis
pute between British and Continental con-
ceptions of a proper peace settlement, 1t
brought u.s. with British support to veto
French hopes for security on the Rhine, it
led us, at British instance, to deny Poland a
real outlet upon the sea. 1t encouraged us
to stand against Italy on the Adriatic.
Insensibly Mr.. Wilson was led to feel that
he had become the moral arbiter of the world
and he flung himself with ever growing in
sistence against the statesmen of the vari-
Gus Continental nations, great and SMALL
whose legitimate or illegitimate aspirations
conficted with his abstract principles.
wish to be quite fair in the statement of the
case In perhaps majority of instances Mr..
Wilson's stand conformed with the facts in
the case l still believe, after all the parti-
san debates in this country that his presence
in Paris contributed materially TO making
the several settlements more moderate than
they would otherwise have been.
But the difficulty always lay in the fact
that in each specific instance the United
States was hurled against a friendly state.
We undertook to regulate the frontiers of
Poland and of Rumania we told the Italians
they should not have Fiume and Dalmatia;
we denied the Greeks eastern Thrace-to
which they were entitled. Finally we were
compelled in the end through the President
to undertake to establish our right to rule
by giving guarantees Of the frontiers of the
several states, whose aspirations or solicit