The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-03-10
NEW DIPLOMATS
MUST Be CHOSEN
SELECTION OF AMBASSADORS TO
THE GREAT POWERS WILL BE
ONE OF HARDING'S TASKS.
RACIAL PREJUD|CES FIGURE
These the President Always Consid.
ers-NeW Commercial Policies and
Economic Conditions Must Be
Studied by the Appointees.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.

BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Washington.-One of the high duties
Of President-elect Harding will be to
choose from among his wealthy Re-
publican fellow citizens men who are
competent to act as ambassadors to
the great powers of earth, or as min
listers to the lesser powers. The word
wealthy" Is not used inyidiously, for
everybody knows that no American
can take one Of these place: unless he
has an abundance Of private means to
pay his necessary expenses and to keep
up the traditions of his office.
The new ambassadors must be men
who understood business in its intricate
commercial sense, and who understand
also the tinesse of diplomacy. The
work of an ambassador today Is ey-
acting. 1t requires keen insight, tact,
suavity and well-balanced judgment
The task of choosing such men will be
a hard one. If men who are not up
to standard are chosen, the United
States will suffer in hundred and
one ways.
Conditions in Europe are just what
everybody knows that they are. The
man who coined the word chaos had
Just such an inspiration for the coin
age as the conditions which now exist
all over the world. The ambassadors
and ministers of the United States,
present and to come, will have as a
part of their high work the effort to
aid In bringing the proverbial "order
=, out of chaos"
Considering Racial Prejudice.
It might seem that the appointing
power might rise superior to, the fact
that racial prejudices exist in the
United States, but Presidents, like
most other men holding elective offices
In the United States, seemingly have
to Consider politics. In appointing
/ minister to Great Britain, or to
France, or to Italy, or to any other
country, a President Of the United
States today seems to be compelled to
think first about lot of things which
men here say ought not to enter into
the matter Of the appointment at all.
The men whom MIR. Harding will
appoint to ambassadorial and minis
terial positions will be compelled to
undertake the consideration of q, new
commercial policy for their country.
More than this they will be compelled
to give a deep study to the existing
economic conditions in the countries
to which they are accredited. The
conditions which make trade possible
are as different today from those in
1913 In England, France, Italy, Japan
and elsewhere as 1t is possible for
such conditions to be. J
Some One Must Be Sent to Germany.
One Of the problems which ultimate
~ will probably meet the new Presi.
dent is that 1.-THE appointment of an
ambassador to Germany. To-Day we
still technically are lat war with that
land. Something like 100000 Ameri-
4lcan soldiers were killed or wounded
BY the bullets and the gas Of the Ger
mans, and nobody knows how many
OF the enemy went down before the
J. muzzles and bayonet attacks of our
boys in the Argonne and east Of the
Meuse. War rancors continue for
some time.
The new ambassador to Germany,
after the peace treaty finally is signed,
will not conduct his work from "a
howery bed Of ease" 1t Is probable
that the man who gets the appoint.
ment will deserve the sympathy of his
fellow countrymen.
It Is said In Washington that Mr..
Harding may select for the German
embassy a man who has represented
Us In that country before. The Presi-
dent-elect's advisers, It Is said, have
declared that this will be the best
way out Of It"
There have been some little frictions
with France since the day Of the ar.
mistice, but they have not engendered
much heat Of controversy. In fact the
new ambassador to France probably
will have an easier time than any Of
his fellow ambassadors. The tradition.
a friendship with France is a real
friendship.
q Italy presents another problem to-
day, for there conditions have changed
materially. The Italian post, however,
may not be as hard a one to I'll as
some Of the others. Then there Is ia
pan, and while diplomacy seeks to
minimize every reported trouble with
the eastern country, there are trou-
bles nevertheless. A tactful man
will be needed In Japan, and one who
understands the japanese tempera.
ment and state methods.
Dawes Approved BY A Z. r. Men.
The committee Of congress which
has been making an investigation into
RE conduct Of the war virtually has
finished Its work. It Is said that the
committee report viii contain nearly
fourteen million words, and will make
twenty volumes Of government
document.
Recently the committee has been
probing Into the conduct Of things in
ne American expeditionary forces. It
Wea during this particular part Of the
INVESTIGATION that Charles G. Dawes
bf Chicago. I brigadier general in the