Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-12
EUROPE DENOUNCES US.
bACKDOWN FROM LEAGUE
r. B. Fosdick Says Nation Must
Arm Heavily to Meet Solid
Euro pean Alliance.

New York, April 12--Faiure of th'
United States to ratify the peace treaty
and join the League of Nations hal
made us regarded abroad 'as race o
cutters, while "our professions o
idcalism and disinterestedness are mark
ed down for sham and hypocrisy" Ray.
mond b. Fosdick, who recently resigned
as under-secretary general OF Tho
League of Nations, declared here las
night. Mr.. Fosdick, who arrived here Sat.
urday on the steamship Baltic, has spent
the last month in London and Paris I'm.
ishing up his work in connection with
the organization of the league.
"Our isolation is complete and We
face the rest Of the world in alliance,
he asserted 'lt is foolish to assume
that the situation has no elements OF
danger for us Our position is one OF
peril. fact that is evidently realized
in Washington, Judging from the plans
that are being made for the biggest navy
in the world. The price OF our isolation
will be armament.
"For il must not be forgotten that
the ghastlv business in Washington has
left us without a friend anywhere. All
that we won during the war we have
deliberately thrown away. The influence
that we had. our position OF leadership,
the affection in which everything relat-
ing TO America was held, have all gone
by the board,
"rhe last three months have brought
about n complete change OF opinion
Only one who has been in Europe re-
Gently can realize the depth and the Bit
terness of the feeling against US. We
started something that VIC failed TO see
through We left Europe in the luroh
in the middle of the game. after impos-
ing on her our rules and procedure. We
threw the league ont of the window 10
satisfy miserable political quarrel.
That is the way Europe looks ut II.
''In spite of the refusal of the United
States to join the compact he con-
tinued, 'the League of Nations is now
going concern. Its machinery Is prac-
tically completed, its finances are ample
and il is beginning TO make itself felt
in international affairs Every country
in South America, except Ecuador, IL
now a member of the league, and, out
side OF Russia and the central empires
of Europe, Rumania and JugoTSlavia
arc the only important countries that
have not yet come in, and their aCccs-
sion is matter of weeks. China 3 ac-
cesslon Is included in the Austrian
treaty. which will be shortly signed.
MIR Fosdick expressed the opinion that
the wave of bitterness against the
United States will pass. lie declared
America $ position as a creditor nation,
while Europe is bankrupt. is a dan
gcrous relationship, to which the oh
vious inability of Germany 20 pay the
large indemnities that were expected will
add an additional strain.
AS a member of the league" he said,
the United States could help enormous
ly to tide over a dangerous and difficult
period. 90 introduce sane and steadying
counsels into the tangled affairs Of Eu-
rope. and 10 re-establish the economic
and industrial life oi the world. II she
stays outside the league and cuts her
self of from any relationship with other
nations except that Of creditor, she must
he prepared 10 arm TO the teeth as the
price Of safety against world alliance"