The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-09-22
Mr.. Harding Sends
Harvey in.

How this country needs a mastel
ca+iristi 1t is enough to evoke Ile
1au0hter of all the lronic gods &C
watch the proceedings in Washington
his country is to join, not the compar,
ativelv mild and innocuous league o.
nations, but the Supreme council OF
the allies; and our representatlVte
thereon is to be George Harvey! SucI
is the outcome of the great battle OF
last November when, we are assured
bv Mr. Harding's partlsans' the loea
ut IF the league of nations merely
but of all o,ltanglement IN european
affairs was repudiated by the people
with an emphasis and enthusiasm UNI
naraIIeled. in any other national cleo
ton.
The issue. Mr.. Harding repeatedly
declared during the campaign, was
simply that of going IN or staying
out; and of all the opponents OF gong
n, the most acidulous was George
Harvey. Now Mr.. Harding goes into
the Supreme council, which not even
Mr.. Wilson was willing to enter, and
appoints as his representative thereon
that same Harvey. .-~r>
The, league of nations is an organ
ization of all the powers for the pres
eIvation of the peace of the world. 1t
operates under a covenant, analogous
to the constitution Of the United
States in that it carefully limits and
restricts the powers and activities OF
the league. The Supreme council is
frankly a league of the most power
full of the victorious nations, with the
one idea of imposing the will Of those
nations upon the defeated enemy and
thereby upon the world. It operates
according to it's own sweet will, with
out any limits Or restrictions whatever.
The league of nations is dedicated to
securing the rule of the people all over
the word. The Supreme council is
tletlicAfed to securing the rule Of the
allies all over the word. But the
league was entirely too sinister an
organization for the United States
senate to- permit this nation to join;
so the, senate sets up new Presldelt
OF its own selection, and he promptly
joins, not he league, but the Supreme
council-so much more sinister an or
ganization than the league that there
IS no standard Of comparison.
OF course, it has been plain to any
man who gave even superficial consid-
GRAFTON to international affairs with
cut allowing his personal preferences
or his partisan sympathies to run
away with his judgment, that Mr..
Harding must join something. Talk
about getting out of Europe is silly.
One might as we'll propose to get out
of the, world, for European interests
now involve the eltire world. And
since we have been hopelessly and in
extricably entangled with Europe, it
is nlain that we must work out some
sort Of arrangement with Europe.
That is why this paper has persistent
ly maintained that Mr.. Harding would
have to come to it, sooner or later.
But we confess that we did not eX-
pect him to shoot so far bevOnd Mr..
Wilson's furthest mark. We rather
loked for him to insist upon modifca-
tons of the league, and then join
that; he has taken our breath away
by running right past the league and
joining the Supreme, council. ...,.
But that is better than to stand stu
pidly insisting that blaqk,~is, white
that this nation, crowded and jost1ed
by all the other powers, is in reality
splendidly isolated. Washington has
at least admitted that the facts are
the facts; and having gotten that far,
the administration permits, the hope
that it may find some Intelligent
method of dealing with themAGfeens-
boro News.