The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-09
Harding Will
 Go Slowly On
 World Tangle

washirgton-There were unmis- takable signs today that the new ad- miniStration is going to proceed slowly and with extreme care and caution in strengthening out the kinks in our European relations.
 The Allied occupation of German territory and the tide of revolution which for the first time in three years bids fair to engulf Soviet Russia are two situations that are being closely watched by the administration. But they are being scrutinized more against the time when American politics must be formulated than with any idea of taking steps immediately.
 In the five days that he has been in the White House. President Hard ing has conferred with scores of men high in public and business life but the overwhelming burden of his talk has concerned conditions at home and not abroad With only two men Secretary of State Hughes and Sena- tor Lodge-hasS he discussed interna- tional affairs, and even with these the conversation is described as general in character.
 Those in confidence of the new President said today that this was in keeping with the promise often made by Senator Harding during the cam paigr-that if elected he would adopt a policy of putting our own house in ortler'' first before attempting to cross either the Atlantic or the Pa cific.
 The Panama-Costa Rica contro- versy. so far as is known, IS the only international issue to which the new administra ton has given serious at tention, and this is so close to nome that it is considered practically a domestic issue.
 President Harding is more or less committed to the recall of American troops from the Rhine so soon as IL is found practicable. During the campaign he frequently asserted that
 
 there and they should be nome. The Allied advance into Gernahy however, has altered the aspect or this problem materially, and IT tnere had been any intention on the part or the new administration Of 1mmedl- ately returning these troops, It IS now considered virtually certain that such intention will not be carried out Ior the present, at least
 The call for the return Of the troops now might result in emparrassluS England, France and Belg1um ana would certainly be construed Tn Ger many as widening the crack Whlcn admittedly exists between the poncles of this government and the Alhes. While the new adm1n1Strallon may differ greatly with the Allies on ques- ton of policy, there is no disposition to advertise that fact to our late en- emy.
 The same situation exists to a great extent in the proposed passage or the Knox resolution declaring a state Of peace with Germany following the example of their candidate, Repubi- can speakers during the campaign told their audiences that if the Re publican ticket was elected there would be peace with Germany as soon as a Republican Congress could pass such a measure for a Republican executive to sign.
 whether this resolution will be presented and urged to immediate passage when the new Congress as- sembles early in April appeared prob lematical today A good many sen ators and others feel that it will be unbecoming for the United States to formally declare peace with Germany while the Allies were engaged in military maneouvres to compel Ger many to fulfill the terms of their peace.
 Republican leaders are hopeful that the situation will clarity 1tseH before the 67th Congress assemblies
 In any event, there is going to be no hurry in getting at the European problems. Taxation and tarin and other domestic affairs are going to occupy the attention of the new ad- ministration almost exclusively at first, regardless of European mat ters.
 Secretary of State Hughes is en- gagged in studying and collating the State Departments material on the European situation. When this IS completed and studied with the chief executive, policies will begin to ap- pear. But there is to be no hurry.