The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-09
FRIENDLY. TO
 ALL BUT HAVE
 NO ALLIANCES
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

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 ship to all nations and entangling
 alliances with none. This is the pol
 icy inaugurated by George Washing.
 ton pursued with few exceptions for
 the last hundred years, and which
 has made the republic great and pow
 erful. The Harding policy is in | sharp contrast to the Wilson for. eign policies which would have bound , this country to the European nations in the league. It is return to the ancient faith of the fathers of the republic, who built perhaps better than they knew when Washington first enunciated the now entangling al
 dances policy and Monroe announced his doctrine. These two policies have preserved the United States as an in- dependent nation and if followed will assure that independence for all time, according to the opinion of members of the foreign affairs committees of house and senate with whom your correspondent discussed the matter. MT. Wilson's proposed departure from the ancient policy of this coun- try resulted in failure of the Yer sailles treaty and busting of the Democrats from control of the fed eral government. The League of Ma tions idea as promoted by MT. Wilson did not have even the merit of orig inality because since the time be- fore Christ the nations had proposed various schemes to end war, and some were actually put in operation, such as the Amphistionic Greek
 League and centuries later the so- called Holy Roman Empire But
 MT. Wilson, lacking originality in the league matter, went even further and
 became plagarist of other mems ideas. In 1914 the national defense league, which was the pioneer Amer ican organization formed in 1913 to arouse the United States to it's then defenseless cOndition held a convention in Washington, attended
 by delegates from every section of the country. At this convention Dr.
 Eusebio Morales, then minister from
 Panama to the United States, pro-
 posed a "pan-American Doctrine"
 This suggested that all the pan-Amer- can nations and the United States form a league for mutual protection and assistance against European or
 Asiatic aggression against any re-
 public in the western hemisphere
 The pan-Amorican doctrine was not original with the Panaman minister
 however, for the idea had been con- ceived and Dr Morales address writ
 ten by one of the Washington news paper correspondents The Morales address on the new pan-American doctrine was well received by the National Defense League con- vention and attracted great deal of favorable editorial at
 tention in this country and South and Central America. Even the Mexi- can press, at that time hostile in the main to the United States, favored the new pan-American doctrine. At the next session of congress MT. Will son lifted" the pan-American doc Urine idea and incorporated it bodily in one of his messages, using in some parts of his address almost the identical language used by Dr. Morales.
 The United States, under the Hard ing administration, intends to remain the champion of liberty as shown in self-government and Republican institutions. It must remain, in the future as in the past, it's own judge of the time, manner, place and extent of it's action in defending Republican institutions around the world, It cannot and must not league itself with other nations, which would ham, per it's free exercise of the right to fight or not to fight when liberty of the world is again in peril. The free will ofthe United States in all world affairs is important to the fu- ture independence of this country. The United States will never permit any league of nations to dictate how it shall associate with other nations, or to what extent it shall accept the mandates of any so-called world court" This is the majority opinion of congress.
 While the United States cannot enter any league there are some things this nation can do now which will make for world welfare and world peace. One of these would be the refunding to the allied debts to the United States into long term obligations with plenty of time for the debtors to discharge the obliga-