The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-27
viii America Pay the Price?

of nations The United States will mot
ratify the treaty to secure the future of
France from aggressive attack The United States
will not join by treaty, or any approach to an al-
. ance with Great Britain to secure world peace and
freedom OF the seas. The United States will not
join Great Britain and Japan in naval agreement
which will protect them in time of The
United States can give no assurance that 1t Will
. approve any agreement in binding treaty form,
with other nations with guarantees of peace.
But the United States asks other nations to re-
duce their ornaments on and land. 1t asks
other nations to agree to surrender economic and
political preference in the Far East. 1t asks them
to give up great present commercial advantages and
still greater future advantages. 1t asks them to
share all these with the people of this country. 1t
asks all this in a spirit of atruism which others
may not exactly appreciate seeing rather their losses
and American gains Old world governments are
not altruistic; they essentially practical.
They are used to bargaining. When they give
they expect to get. Agreements with them are two
sided and always carry considerations. They want
assurance that in the long they at least will not
lose or jeopardize the material interests OF their
people. Americans prone to say they ask
nothing. AS fact in the Washington conference,
they will ask much, much of material benefit to this
,country, though it is all asked behalf of free
and independent China and Siberia.
= This is something, very great something.
Can It be secured for nothing? 1t is already evil
dent growing more so every day, that the other
governments will come here sincerely willing to
grant all that is asked if the United States will
nenter mutual agreement OF safety, of future Sc
curity and peace. If this country in fact a
member of the league of nations, other guaranty
might be necessary
All the other governments members They
are closely associated by mutual guarantees This
= country is on the outside and asks them all for a
" new deal in the Far East which inevitably will
have results in all other parts of the world They
are asked to regard their foreign relations from a
new viewpoint to introduce wholly strange ele-
ment into their foreign affairs and this by rank
outsider who refuses associate with them or to
be bound by any substantial bond
France will reduce her army if protected from
. Germany and assured that it will not be needed
either for protection to enforce reparation pay
ments Great Britain will reduce her navy if as
sured that her intercourse with her imperial domain
will never be interrupted. Japan will reduce her
navy if assured of materials; OF freedom for
industrial expansion and elbow room Tor her peo-
pie Holland, and France, too, want security for
their Far East possessions. Neither is naval
nation and both rest upon foreign agreements of
mutual profit
What are the people of the United States will
ing to do to gain freedom of trade in the Near
East commercial and investment equality and "the
territorial integrity and political independence" OF
Cbina7 To preserve South American freedom as
now we would gain like condition for China, we
will go to war; This country asks for and has no
preference in South America, and none is asked in
China But others have preference there, and are
asked to surrender this. VIII this people join with
them in Monroe doctrine of the Far East?