South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-12
CLAIMS j. S. Is
NOW REGARDED AS
RACE OF CUTTERS
Former Secretary General of
League Gives Opinion on
Senate Action.
BY Associated Press

BY Associated Press:
NEW YORK. April 11-Failure OF
the United States TO ratift the peace
treaty and join the League or Ma
tiOns has made us regarded abroad
as "a race OF cutters while Our
professions Of idealism and disin-
terestedness are marked down for
sham and hypocrisy" Raymond Il.
F'osdick. who recently resigned as
u n d G r-secretary general or the
League Of Nations declared here.
Sunday night. Mr.. Fosdick. who ar
rived here Sunday on the steamship
Baltic. has spent the last month in
London and Paris finishing up his
work in connection with the organi-
zatiOn OF the league.
Isolation Complete.
"Our isolation is complete and we
face the rest of the world in ALI
ance," he asserted. 1T is foolish 10
assume that the situation has no
elements Of danger for Us. Our po-
sition is one of peril, a fact that IS
evidently realized in Washington,
judging from the plans that are be
ig made for the biggest navy in the.
world. The price of our isolation
will be armament
For il must not be forgotten that
the CHASTITY business in Washington
has left US without a friend any
where. All that we won during the
war We have deliberately thrown
away. The influence that we had,
our position Of leadership the affec-
ton in which everything relating 10
America was held, have all gone by
the board.
Complete Change.
The last three months have
brought about a complete change
Of opinion. Only one who has been
in Europe recently can realize the
depth and bitterness of the feeling
against Us. We started something
we failed 70 seed through. We left
Europe in the lurch in the middle
Of the game, after imposing on her
our rules and procedure. We threw
the league out of the window 10
satisfy a miserable political quarrel.
That is the way Europe looks at It."
I'm spite OF the refusal OF the
United States TO Join the compact"
he continued, the League of Ma
tons is now a going concern. Its
machinery is practically completed,
it's finances are ample and il Is be
giin~ing TO make itself felt IN inter-
national affairs. Every country in
South America, except Ecuador, is
now a member of the league and
outside OF Russia and the central
empires OF Europe, Rumania and
Jugo -Slavia are the only important
countries that have not yet come in
and their accession is a matter OF
weeks. China's accession is includ-
ed in the Austrian treaty which will
be signed shortly"
Wave VIII Pass.
Mr.. FOsdick expressed the opinion
that the wave Of bitterness against
the United States will pass. He de-
clared Americas position as cred
itor nation, while Europe IS bank
rupt. is a dangerous relationship 10
which the obvious inability of Ger
many to pay the large indemnities
that were expected will furnish an
additional strain.
LAS a member Of the league he
said. the United States could help
enormously to tide over 2 danger
Gus and difficult period to introduce
sane and steadying counsels into the
tangled affairs OF Europe, and to
reesta blish the economic and indus
trial life fthe world. II she stays
outside the league and cuts herself
off from any relationship with other
nations except that Of creditor, she
must be prepared 10 arm TO the
teeth as the price Of safety against
q world alliance