Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-18
j. s. To TAKE No PART.
IN MANDATE FARLEY
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to. The Journal
Downright 1921 y &. go

- Copyright, 1921 :.
WASHINGTON, 81, June Is
| The United States government has
no intention of sending a representa-
tive, even unofficially, to discuss
with the Council Of the League of
Nations the matter of mandates.
This may be unpleasant news to
those who have had a lingering hope
that the mandate question would
serve as bridge over which the Har-
ding administration could conven-
ient1y reach the council of the league
without mbarrassment but it never
theless is the truth.
The invitation sent by the coun-
Gil of the league to Secretary Colby
to send a representative to discuss
mandates was purposeIy left unen-
tration might be free to do as it
pleased with ne request. Paris dis
patches in the last few days have
sought informally to remind the
American government that the inyi-
tation still is unanswered. In the
same informal way the word goes out
that the Harding administrator does
not anticipate the necessity. OF send
ing any representative official or I'M
official to the next meeting OF the
Harvey in Good Favor
So far as mandates are concerned,
the United States, has Ii means OF
communication with all the powers
through ne supreme council, Whlcn
is attended by Ambassador George
Harvey as the personal representa-
tive of the president Of the United
States.
Although tho American ambassador
has made one or two errors Of speech
which he himself attributes to, mex
perience as a diplomat, and although
Secretary Hughes and President tiar-
ding have both felt It necessary to
define Americas purposes in entering
ish, the fact is Mr.. Harvey still IS
in good favor and is charged with
the responsibility. of negotiating al
the delicate questions which America
may want discussed with tn the o6 gr ese
to read the Harvey cab1egranis from
abroad say they are .characterlstl,
cally direct and to the PONY anu
that he is following carefully the III
structions of the department OF 81 ate,
Indeed the notes of instructions
sent by Secretary Hughes to Amerl-
can diplomats abroad are themselves
so precise and definite that there is
no room for MISUNDERSTANDING.
Harvey Was Right
statement AinenfAt that the United States
would not have anything to do with
the league or any Of it's committees
directly or indirectly. This was
doubted at the time, but 1T turns: OUT
that he had an accurate ldea OF
Harding's administration policy. Even
the Root plan for an international
court of Justice, which is. the off,
spring of a committee of the League
Of Nations, is not to be accepted I'M
less it is completely separated from
the machinery of the league.
The determination to steer clear OF
the League of Nations and deal only
with the supreme council is growing
stronger in administration quarters,
especially, because the president is
becoming convinced that there is no
real task which cannot be as directly
handled in the supreme council as In
the parallel organization OF the
League of Nations, namely, the coun-
Gil. '%e
After the next few meetings OF
the supreme council it would not be
surprising to find President Harding
openly commencing that body as an
effective medium for international
intercourse and urging it's use as
nucleus for a greater association OF
nations, which shall differ from the
present Lea CUE of Nations IN tna-
it shall have nothing to do with the
enforcement of the treaty of Yer
sailles or any other treaty.
Foreign Policy Outlook
Already Mr.. Harding is using the
supreme council. to get at the att1-
tude of the powers on the disarma-
ment question and just as soon as
the Versailles treaty can be redrafted
so as to eliminate certain clauses in
which the United States is not in
tereSted, the move for an aSsocla-
ton of nations will be begun.
One thing has developed clearly In
the last few days-it is that the Har-
ding administration does not intend
to rush precipitately into treatg-mak-
ing or anything else, but will take
one step at a time. The massage of
the Knox-Porter resolution declar-
ing the state of war at an end is
the first stage of the journey: Next
of the Versailles treaty so that the
American. senate can ratify it anc
thus peace with Germany made
and diplomatic relations established.
After that comes the making of an
association of nations.
It is a matter of months-and per-
what kind of a league shall be form
Europeans themselves will have their
own league and eventually, the prob
lem of whether one or the other
will go out of business or the two
shall be merged, will: become as nat
street car. companies in the same
town running on parallel tracks.
That's the outlook for foreign policy
under the Farding admin iStratiOn