Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-10-14
AS SEEN IN EUROPE.

are amazed at the extent to which political par
tisanship has carried the great Republican par
ty. A particularly interesting letter has recent
ly been published from Major Abel M. McReyn-
olds, 112th infantry A. E. F., now in Paris. He
says:
"In political information we Americans have
been parched lot. We get odds and ends Of the
political propaganda ground out in the u. 5. A.
What we wanted and I'll admit we hankered con-
siderably for it, was straight cut tip as to
whether or not all this ridiculous, almost feeble
minded, propaganda against the peace treaty
and the League of Nations was actually getting
by with the people of the United States
Recently we were visited by delegation of
American women who were on their way to
Christiana to represent the women of America
in the international Council Of Women 1t prom
ises well for the clear-sighted vision with which
our seven million new women voters will ap-
proach the coming election, that not one of these
women, whatever her politics. has been blinded
or fooled for single instant by the sordid, re-
dictionary assault for political advantage upon
the League of Nations. They know exactly
what they want from their presidential candi-
dates They are going after it. They are quite
frank in saying SO.
MANY of the women Of the delegation are red
hot Republicans. They want to vote the Repub-
lican ticket, but they are uncompromising in
their determination not to accept Harding and
his party as long as they maintain their present
attitude toward the League of Nations.
"And so, while do not presume to make any
predictions, can state most positively that, de-
spite all the false sinister propaganda spread
broadcast against the League of Nations, these
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ton has never wavered. They regard the pres
ent league as the surest safeguard against fu-
ture wars And that's plain cold fact what
ever it may lead to at the next election Al
though Senator Harding recognizing the tre-
mendous sentiment in America for the League
of Nations, proposes in vague way and with
characteristic meaningless platitudes, to set up
feebler substitute, these women will have none
of it,
Like their sisters the world over, they abhor
wars. They dread them to the extent probably
little understood by men. Scenes of devastated
towns, ruined villages and farms, and the rows
of white crosses above the American dead will
be indelibly photographed upon their memory.
Their hearts cry out anew against repetition
of this horror.
"And now I want to say word about this
good old propaganda junk. | was especially in
terested in bit Of it that was ground out at
Marion recently, following the conference be-
tween Senator Harding and Myron I. Herrick,
former ambassador to France [ wonder if you
people over there are really swallowing that
Junk The conference at Marion, it was given
out, was arranged so that Mr.. Harding might
get from Mr.. Herrick the latest views of Euro
pean statesmen on our international policy 1t
was stated that Mr.. Herrick told the Republican
candidate Europe was suffering from the re-
suits of President Wilson's impractical idealistic
ideas and that it was a tragic mistake for the
president to 60 to France and insist upon includ-
ing the League Of Nations in the war settlement.
doubt if Mr.. Herrick made such a statement.
"You can bet your last golden simoleon no
European statesman talked any Impractical
ideastic' rot to Mr. Herrick. Nor did they refer
to the despicable and unholy mess into which
our foreign relations have been plunged by the
Lodge cabal in the United States senate as our
international policy What Mr. Herrick did
find here was that the great mass of intelligent
people in Europe wanted to know why the Re-
publican party besmrched the nations honor
by repudiating its pledges to the allies. And
they wanted to know that SO repeatedly and so
insistently that it must have taken deal of
iov from Mr.. Herrick's recently completed Eu-
ropean trip.
"Mr Herrick knows jolly well what European
statesmen and people think on this subject. If
he told Mr. Harding the facts the latter must
have had very uncomfortable half hour.
"Camouflage it, distort it, misrepresent it as
you NAV. the truth remains. What Europe, as
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