Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-08-26
Reverse, Turn Backward.
tst. Louis Post-Dispatch.)

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"There will be none of the present
foreign policy If we succeed" said
Senator Harding in reply to questions
concerning his own views of. the
Russo Polish situation and other
foreign problems, adding "There will
be complete reversal"
One reversal is sorely needed; that
is a reversal of the holdup of the
Versailles treaty, but it is not to the
Senate's course, but to everything
that President Wilson has done that
Senator Harding was speaking.
Specifically, we know that the Sena-
tor would reverse all that was done
in the peace conference at Versailles.
He would abandon all our war aims
and all our pledges and obligations to
our war associates and all the agree
ments we entered into with them in
regard to peace, the freeing of op-
pressed nations and the penalizing
and restraint of Germany. He would
abandon our associates, make separ-
ate peace with Germany in our own
interest, regardless !, of Belgium or
France or Poland or Czecho- Slovakia
or Greece or Rumania or any other
small nation dependent for life upon
the good will and support of the ma
tions which broke down the imperial
ism of Central Europe. 1t is not a
question of justice to Germany or
modifying the peace terms, but of
justice and good faith to all the ma
tions which co-operated with US and
looked to US for justice and liberty.
We would abandon corporation for
just peace and civilization in Europe.
We would abandon aid for European
populations and European industrial
life. We would stand aside, nursing
ourselves and seeking the spoils of
the dead and dying.
Apply the reversal policy, to the
Polish Russian situation. We would
refuse to stand for Poland's inde-
pendence or ethnic integrity. We
would refuse to stand for the inde-
pendence or integrity of any nation.
We would refuse to stand for the
Russian peoples right of self de-
termination and self-control. We
would recognize the Bolshevik Gov
ernment, of course, regardless of its
bad faith and world wide revolution
ary propaganda. We would let it
enter upon its policy of ravage and
: revolution the world over.
Truly an enlightened policy! Amer
lea blind to everything but our own
dollars, shut up in what Mr.. J, Pier
pont Noyes, who has just returned
from task of IA months on the
Rhineland Commission, calls 'fooPi
PARADISE while shell is brewing il
Europe"
What does Mr.. Root, who, having
seen the conditions in Europe, say
we have withheld our hand too long
think of it? What does Mr.. Taft
who is the advocate of the League o
Nations, think of it. What does Mr.
Hoover, who earnestly urged ou
cooperation in rehabilitating Europe
think of it? What do Mr.. Wicker
sham, Judge Hughes and the best o
Republican leaders, who have ad
vocated an enlightened foreig
policy, think of it? What do th'
great body of intelligent Republicans
who want America to take her tru
place in the world and live up to th
highest standard of enlightened lead
ership in free civilization, think of it
Reverse, turn backward, back t
the good old times of narrow selfish
ness and grab, when the strong too
care of themselves and the devil too
care of the weak. That seems to b
the Harding idea of American polio.