Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-23
America win Maintain Mon
roe Tradition With Eng,
land Unfolding New Pol
icy of Empire,
EURO m CONTINENT
tg*t WILL BE DIVIDED
P b Which Have Suffer-
$r !. Most at Hands Of Ger
u nany and Austria Have
: Common Interests.
Rr ANDRE TARDEu.

tSDCrfnl NRDlG 10 morning JOuruAib
| Copyright 1921 by Albuquerque JournaD
Paris, Oct. 22.-At the moment
when America is preparing to well
come the delegates invited to dis
cass the problems of the Pacific
and the limitation of ornaments at
Washington, certain general ques-
tions arise which IL, not on the
agenda will at least be on the minds
of the delegates.
One of these. has to do with the
future relations between the old
and the new worlds. In seeking
bases of durable peace in the Pa
cific, the United States claims the
honor of representing not only
North America but tacitly South
America. Both have the same
problems concerning navigation,
trade and races. Washington's
Pacific policy interests more or
less directly all of the American
republics.
/ lived long enough in America
to realize that political formulas
in your country are subordinated to
practical realities more than else-
where. Yet despite the iong con-
troyersies concerning it, the Mon
roe doctrine is still an active force,
However, there is not always
agreement as to its Interpretation,
When Roosevelt summarized 1t as
speak softly, but carry a big
stick" he was not unanimously ap-
plauded. Nevertheless, in europe
and the rest of the world, the es-
sentials of the doctrine have never
been questioned.
Great Britain will also have at
Washington a guiding doctrine OF
more recent origin, but wEicn she
has been zealously developing dur
ing the last few months. 1t is the
empire doctrine. Formerly the en-
pire was an implement of domlna-
ton. Today, it is a federation.
The empire conference in LONDON
this summer gave definite form TO
imperial Relationships.
At the Paris meeting of the ailie1
supreme council in August, Mr.-
Lloyd-George carefully stttei that
he had a mandate to speak in the
name of the British dominions--Iiot
a mandate by divine eight but
with the express consent and after
thorough discussions with the 90
minions concerning common IN
terests.
Great Britain has not formulated
any organic credo comparable 10
the Monroe doctrine, but neverthe-
less it represents a grouping OF
peoples bound together by common
interest in sea power. The old slo-
gan. "Britania rules the waves
has disappeared, but everybody
seems to admit that every maritime
problem is by definition BRUSH
problem. .
The European continent also has
special common interests Wnlcn
though doubtless reconcilaple with
the interests of the maritime pow
ers, nevertheless, are special as the
war proved. | regret to say that
despite this, the continent Will pre-
sent n divided front at the con-
ference. For two years now.
France should have been preparing
to organize and consolidate these
interests. But neither Millerand
nor BRAND even attempted 1t. let
the peoples which suffered at the
hands of Germany and austria
surely have common interests "nlch
would have been easy to discover.
Their agreement on certain ue-
finite principles would 1mmeasur-
ably strengthen European peace.
Moreover, neither Great Britain
or the United States could take the
slightest umbrage at such an agree
ment for it would have peace as its
object and peace is the OBJECT Vi
the Washington conference.
1t would have been a splenalu
thing If Europe had realized sucii
an organization before the confer-
ence. However, regrets won't help
now. The best one can hope is Tor
the adoption of such plan in the
future.
Among the problems to be raised
is one which dominates all the
rest. What is to become OF that
mass of unrest reaching from the
Rhine to the Pacific, including an
Germany, a bolsheVk
and Chinese anarchy'
The conference solutions Will be
fragile and precarious If some DAY
n hundred millions between tue
Rhine and the Pacific threaten
those democratic nations VINO So
recently saved their liberty from
an aggressor. -.
The public is ill-informed about
the program of the Washington
conference. / like to hope tnat
each nation will bring a caretuliy
thought out plan not only giving a
comprehensive view of the interests
at stake, but full technical data
our Anglo Saxon friends, hanks TO
their geographical situation. nave
a common lack of deep concern
over land boundary questions
which sense has been awakened IN
continental peoples by long ana
bitter experience. These are the
interests which France ought TO De
now to represent on Pc
half of all Europe If she is to take
her proper place at the conference.
Let's hope that she will, but lack
Ing information we can do nothing
but hope. Many Frenchmen 90
not think that is enough.