The Washington times., 1920-07-12
SCORES j. S. FOR
OBSERVING ALLIES
English Author Says Leagues
Power Is Slight and II Has
Bio Load to Bear.

IONDONs July Ii Inc LSAEle oi
Nations has nothing but costly Off
cials, commissions and resolutions.
ITO protect a small state II has no
more power than the Society for the
Protection OF Women and Children.
1T Is now certain that America
will never work out In Europe the
WilsonIsn covenant.
without America the league is
bankrupt"
These are but a few OF the points
made by Frederick Harrison in an
article written for the Fortnighuy
Review.
Harrison is exceedingly well known
In England as a thinker and an au-
thor. He Ia eiKhty-eight years OF
age. but In spite OF his years has
an extraordinary vigor OF mind and
body. In 1901 he was Washington
president OF the Royal Historical
Society. AS an author he has written
a lsrgs number OF books.
1T is not for US to judge the po-
liticsl problems and parties within
the Republic Of the United States"
continues Harrison. There Is much
10 Justify both sides In the deadlock
between President and Senate
Democrat and Republican. 1t Is en-
tirely for them TO settle things In
their own way in their own home"
RESULT OF DEADLOCK.
But see the result OF the deadlock
on the world around"
"It is plain that the covenant and
the fourteen points We're the Amer
lean conditions on which the republic
brought It's enormous weight, it's in
Nhaustible armies, it's wealth and
It's material resources into the war"
But for that covenant Great Brit
ain, France and Italy would have
made a quick, plain, direct peace
with their enemies In some form. But
tho terms OF the American interven-
tion had entirely transformed the
whole situation"
The peace-when II came-had
been bound up with the American
Utopia. And nifty races in Europe
and in Asia were fred with the pas
sion Of self-Sssertion at the call Of
the biggest OF the Entente Powers.
Then the domestic quarrel in the
States broke out. II withdrew In sc-
tion and In council. 1T left its de-
serted comrades in the war to deal
with the confusion OF Europe and TO
pacify the furious hopes and hates
of the races.
THE republic withdrew in action;
it did not withdraw in words. Re-
fusing to meet the council; refusing
men. money. or goods TO Its own
creation. viz. the league Of nations,
II does not ccease to criticize, to COM
plain and to interfere both Officially
and unofficialy in the doings OF its
own treaty.
at will not ratify it's own treaty.
yet 1t condemns the allies who have
ratified theirs
CENsUREs PRESIDENT.
The President will do nothing,
meet no one, discuss nothing: yet he
claims to dictate TO us mia Wishes
and his censures from his sick
room"
Senators, mayors and the press
bark and growl about British at
tempts to settle convulsions In the
world-which the Republic will not
touch, inasmuch as 1t passes by on
the other side"
And the journals-and even i'm
portant public men-use Ireland In
dia, Egypt and the sea as counters III
their own party game
I'VE well know the necessity OF
good understanding between our
peoples, and our public men and press
bear insults and injuries in silence.
But a man may fairly ask is it an
honorable part OF SO glorious ma
ton to jeer at the Good Samaritan
while 1t prefers TO pass by on the
other side?' -
Referring to Armenia and the re-
fusal of America to accept the man
date for that country, Harrison says:
1T was an American President and
American representative who, dur
ing the war and during the confer
ences most passionately pleaded for
League of Nations to protect the
weak peoples Of the East. The be-
lief Of the world was that whatever
other task the republic undertook the
mandate to save Armenia would be
their obvious duty.
.And now an INTERNAL dispute
seems to reject that and every Euro
pean cause--until after March, 1921,
at earliest"