The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-16
HARD|NG' s VIEW IS COMING ROUND ID
 IDEA OF LEAGUE
Future Foreign Policy Is Now Expected to Be Predicated on Existing League
 of Nations
By ROBERT T. SMALL

(Special.) President-elect Harding's confidence that the making o ia new international policy for the United States may not prove as difficult as many persons Supposed hes brought up thes question of whether in the end this policy will not be predicated upon the existing League of Ma tions.
 Certainly all the outward and visi- bie signs at this time point to such course, while there are 8 number of leading minds in the republican party bitterly opposed to the acceptance or any part of the League of Nations as arranged at Versailles, these minds are not ordinarily the ones which go along with Senator Harding's.
 There is every reason to believe Senator Harding has been deeply i'm pressed by his recent talks with MT. , Hughes, Mir. Hoover and Mr. Root, and .St is known that each one of these Three distinguished republicans truth fully ranked among the "best minds of America, have advocated a modl- ficatiou of the so-called Wilson league
 HARyEY'S INFLUENCE
 1t is true, of course, that while Mir. Hughes, Mir. Hoover and MT. Root have come and gone. Col: George Harvey has remained in Marion as the house guest of the President elect There is no more bitter bitter ender' is ali the countryside than Colonel Harvey when it comes to the Wilson League of Nations. He Is very close to Mir. Harding, but his influence in the past has not been great enough to swing the senator entirely away from the idea of an association of nations. CT g. possible entrance into re-ar- ranged league based upon the frame work of Versailles. r
 ColoSel Harvey was with Senator Harding for 10 days prior to the sena- tors very Comprehensive speech Of August 2S last in which he dealt ex- elusiveIy with the subject of the for eign relations of the United States. Frequently since last August MT Harding has said that he stands squarely on that speech and also on tho statements made in his speech accepting the republican nomination.
 QUQ IFS VISCOUNT GREY S It is being recalled in connection with Ebhe present. conferences at Marion that hIr. Harding on August $ quoted with n great deal of satisfaction d statement Hpy visco,Int Grey who had been British arrhaSsador at Washington, but had been unable to present his credentials to Pres ident Wilson viscount Grey said:
 ''As long as the richest, most powerful, the greatest. both for population and territory, of the civilized countries of the I -a, 5s xSytS tfo I<a,<r ha league will be unable to fulfill it's des- tiny. TO put it in quite plain terms, the Americans must be told that if they will only join the league they can practically name their own terms"
 Commenting on this statement. MT. Harding said
 ''Undosibtediy that is the fact. I ask: Is there any good reason why we should not avail ourselves of this privilege? l do not mean in any arrogant or dom ineering, or patronizing, or selfish way, but simply as a matter of fairness and right to our own people
 Senator Harding further quoted Vis- count Grey as saying that the Americans should bo trusted with the drafting of a scheme of recon struction for the seague of Nations, which would be con- sistent with the feeling not of one, but of all parties tn America" and MT. Hardings comment on this suggestion
 
 Frankly, I value that suggestion very highly, because il is proffered obviously in a. helpful and friendly spirit and re- yeals an old world opinion of the neces- sity of amendment, revision or recon gtruction-"
 X Then followed these very significant Words by MT. Harding:
 Tt cornprehends substantially what l would propose to do if elected President"
 Advocating the re-establishment of The Haxue tribunal or an international court akin to it. Mir Harding said he would be found in the League of Nations plan, and added:
 ..rhis statement is broad enough to in- rlude the suggestion that if the league, which heretofore has riyalled our con siders.tions and apprehensions, has been CT twined and interwoven into the peace served in order to stabilize the peace of ar revised so that We may still have 4 remnant of world aspirations of tsiS fs.ilded into the worlds highest concer tion of helpful cooperation in the ulti- mate realization"
 SHOWS TREND OF MIND
 These quotations are being revived in Marion to show that President-elect Harding has brought to the conferences row under way a. mind in which the idea of q new association of nations, based if need be upon a reconstruction of the existing League of Nations, has been foremost. This idea has been given SUD-
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