Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-05-27
PRESIDENT NOT TO
NEEDLE WITH ROW
EXECUTIVE MAKES STATEMENT
THAT AMERICAN INTERESTS
WILL BE PROTECTED
Wherever the Country is Interested
Representative viii Be On Hand
to Represent American interests
and Protect Our Rights

Washington.- There have been
two events in Washington re-
Gently which are essential signboards
of fundamental tendency. sThe first
and most obvious is our refusal to in
terfere in SilesIa.
This step marks the delimitation of
Americas new policy in foreign af-
fairs. We are going to ask to "sit in"
in fact, we are going to press our right
to "sit in in all matters as to which
America has an interest. The theory
of our new policy is that Americas
interest and Americas right go hand
In hand, but where Americas interest
ends Americas right ends, and that in
those matters where we have no right
we are, going to avoid ENHANCEMENT.
Broadly speaking, Americas new
policy Is that we have an interest in
every economic matter taken up by the
supreme council, but that we have no
interest In any political matter affect
ing Europe that may be taken up by
that body.
The illustration of this new policy
is now complete. We had an interest
in the economic aspect Of the German
separations, and therefore. we took
a hand. We had no interest in the
purely political subject Of the boun-
dairy between Poland and Germany,
and therefore, we declined to take
hand. This is a complete picture OF
the new policy.
OF course, the place where the line
is drawn Is more or less arbitrary.
We say, for example, that we have an
interest in the amount of export duty
which the allies put upon German
goods because that export duty will
have an economic effect upon every
person in America who directly or In
directly buys from Germany or sells to
Germany-every person who directly
or indirectly either consumes German
goods or sells goods to Germany; but
on the contrary, our position is that
the boundary between Poland and
Germany is wholly a European poll
teal matter, in which we have no In
terest. Therefore. we stay out of it,
Friends Of the Wilson foreign pro-
gram and the friends of the league of
nations will, Of course, say-and say
with perfect truth-that this is an
arbitrary line. If FIVE years from
now the boundary between Poland and
Germany should give rise to Euro
pean war and if that war should take
the course which the recent war took
and should ultimately involve us then
we have an interest In it, The
answer of those who are responsible
for our new foreign policy would adj
NIT freely that this is all true, but
that the line must be drawn some
where, and that for the present they
draw it at the point Illustrated by the
two incidents 7 have recited.
The second episode which Is sign
board of fundamental policy rs Presi
dent Harding's refusal for the present
to send troops TO West Virginia. This
Illustrates vital quality of President
Hardings mind. IT Is his disposition
to act on the second thought rather
than on the first thought.
When the governor Of West Virginia
and the senators from West Virginia,
and various other representatives of
West Virginia and Kentucky, MI in n
rather excited and insistent frame Of
mind, demand federal troops the first
thing the easiest thing and the most
obvious thing is to send the troops
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