The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-04-28
AMBASSADORS IN WARRINGTON
EAGERLY AWAIT ADMiNIsTRA- :
TloN's DECLARATION. 4
HOME AFFAIRS COME FIRST
Definite Program Covering Domestic
Problems Will Be Formulated Be.
fore Attention IL Turned to Our
Relations With Foreign Countries.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.


taking keen interest today in the
forthcoming announcement Of foreign
policy by the new administration. 1t
seems to be taken for granted by most
Of the foreigners that one Of the acts
Of the congress ut the extra session
sooner or later will be to pass the
Knox resolution declaring that state
Of peace exists between the Uni>ed
States and Germany.
The French embassy, naturally rel-
haps, is showing evidences of the
keenest interest in the Forthcoming
foreign policy. Prior to this time the
question Of an addition to the Knox
amendment has been discussed and
it was said that there was chance
that the addition would be accepted
by the Trainer Of the resolution and
by the senate of the United States.
1t seems today as if France desires
with its whole heart that this addi-
ton to the resolution shall be includ-
ed in the administrators program Of
action.
ter recently that "the hope Of some of
the senators is that the President will
Recommend the coupling up with the
Knox resolution of paragraph which
will give to France new evidence Of
our friendship for that country. What
France wants probably and what some
OF the senators want is that to the
Knox resolution shall be added the
statement that the United States will
not look unmoved on threatened or
actual aggression on the part Of any
European power against the peace Of
one Of its neghbors.
Would Please France.
OF course this addition to the Knox
resolution would cover the French
case, and would give the French to IN
derstand that if u rejuyenated and
aggressive militaristic Germany ever
should try to put into effect another
plan OF invasion, the United, States
would do something more than SYM
pathize with the sister republic across
the sea. ~ a,. t@a4.t.. .. .
In Washington there has been some
sort Of belief that France is urging
the American administration to ac-
y cept the League of Nations under a
modified form. This seems hardly
likely to the deeper students Of the
situation in Washington. They think
that what President Harding had to
say about league, directly or indi-
rectly, in his inaugural address, re-
moves the league as league from
present consideration. The more like
~ Interpretation, therefore, which Is
put upon the meetings between the
state representatives of the two re-
pubiics is that France desires to get an
assurance Of the support Of sentiment
from the United States, an assurance
which in the case Of a country which
DOES not regard written promises as
scraps Of paper, will be tantamount to
a treaty. 49,,
President Harding from the very
first has intimated that nothing will
ba done in foreign affairs until after
the formulation Of definite program
covering affairs in the United States
which need instant attention. There
are many domestic problems which
must be settled quickly. There are
economic disturbances which are trOu-
bling congress and the administra-
ton. There are threats of trouble
between employers and employees in
great industries, and in the transport
tation services. ~.,...
May Be Delayed.
Therefore it seems possible that
even the Knox resolution declaring
peace with Germany may not be
pressed for passage at once at the
extra session Of congress. Because
Of the chance that some addition may
be made to the resolution which will
affect our foreign relations, it may be
that this outstanding matter Of peace
with Germany may be postponed.
1t is understood that the President
will consult the ambassadors Of the
Wilson administration who have re-
: turned, or who are about to return
/ from foreign countries. They have
been in the scenes during all of the
discussions of the League Of Nations,
and they have had first-hand knowl.
edge of the feelings Of the foreign Of.
fees Of the different countries on the
questions which will affect our own
foreign relations. The American am
bassador to Great Britain has fund
of. information concerning the British
attitude. Already he has placed a
good deal of it at the disposal Of the
State department. ~. ....,..u. ts1.
The American administration seems
to know that all Europe is looking
eager-eyed to the United States. This
country is powerful and it suffered
less than the other countries which
were engaged In the great war; It is
more prosperous than any other coun.
try on earth, and for these and some
other reasons Europe from Byzantiuln
to Spain and from the Mediterranean
to the Arctic wants to know what We
are going to do.
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