The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-07-14
LET us GIVE THANKS

LEI US GIVE IHANhO
If the Harding administration did moth
ing than Americanize the foreign policy
of the United States it would more than
Justify the tremendous majority the Re
publican party received at the polls last
November.
That the policy is clarified and COM
pletely Americanized becomes increasing
" evident every day, in spite OF the et-
forts of the last ditch leaguers to create
the impression that Uncle Sam is still
flirting with the covenant.
Let those who still rest under this i'm
preston read the excellent address OF Sec
retary of State Hughes at Brown Univer-
sity recently in which he says that 1t is
not desirable that Americas helpful IN
fluence should be frittered away by re-
lating ourselves unnecessarily to political
questions which involve rivalries OF inter
est abroad with which we have no proper
concern" Let them also take cognlzance
of the fact that direct negotiations have
been begun between the United States
and Japan forsthe settlement of the ques-
tions pending between them-negotia-
tions that are being conducted by Baron
Shidehara, the japanese ambassador and
Secretary Hughes.
1t behooves the American people to
turn for moment from the domestic
problems which bear down upon them and
consider the present status of Europe.
They will find plenty of inspiration for
giving thanks that America escaped the
league of nations.
Not since the downfall of Napoleon
L. e., 4Ia hann ca n
settled Russia is still chaos. Poland,
recently liberated, has ambitions which
run counter to the interests OF some OF the
larger powers, and are apt to kindle an
other European war at any moment. ST.
lesia, involved in civil war is patrolled by
allied soldiers, and the Americans would
be there, too, were we members of the
league. Greece and Turkey are at war,
and here, too, are the seeds of another
general conflict Great Britain has al
ready sent word to the Porte that an as
sault on Constantinople means war be-
tween Turkey and England. There is
civil war in Ireland and unrest in the Or
lent, with Persia and other Asiatic coun-
tries threatening to throw off the western
Europe Influence to embrace bolshevlsn.
Even Great Britain, the strongest pow
Ell of them all, seethes with unrest and
faces general decentralization of indus
try because of the strike of the coal min
erS.
Politics makes strange bedfellows in
Europe as well as in America. There are
abundant signs of differences between
France, Great Britain and Italy. Great
Britain interferTed in behalf of Germany
in the Silesan controversy, thereby Of
Tending the Poles and the French And
now comes hint that there is brewing
an economic understanding between
Franc and Germany that would rebound
to the advantage of both nations-a pos
sibility that is causing Great Britain con-
Germ.
1t is true that the league is not func
tioning, that the member nations are
quarreling and bargaining with no refer
ence whatever to the rules of the league.
Participation of America in all these
quarrels has been avoided by the result
on election day last November, Let us,
Therefore, pause for moment to give
thanks.-Nationa Republican.