The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-14
Claims History Will Call
President the Great
Compromises
MASSACHUSETTS,
Is. ALL THE FACTIONS
Pro Leaguers. Bitter Enders, the Diplo-
: mats, EurOpe-All Praise the Admin
istratiOn's Foreign Policy - Door Is
Yet Open for League.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Despatch to The Reformer

Copyright 1921.
WASHINGTON, April IA. WarrenI
Harding may be known in history as
the great compromised Judging by
the expressions of pleasure which came
from practically every faction in con
gress after hearing the presidents adj
dress there can be no doubt that Mr..
Harding has embarked on middle of
he road course, best calculated TO cool
the partisan passions of the last two
years s..
The bitter enders'' and '.irreconcil-
abies are happy. The true friends of
international cooperation and a league
OF nations are pleased beyond measure
say the message is more than they ex-
pected Even the Democrats are quietly
saying II told you So" in referring to
| the acceptance by Mr. Harding of the
| ersaIlles treaty as a basis for future
| foreign policies. And the diplomatic
representatives, OF foreign nations who
| only Yesterday were despairing of
| America. wondering if the incredible
rumorS about national isolation could
! be true, are gratihed that, while the
method and the phrases NAV differ,
while the formula may not be so all
comprehensive, the spirit of altrusm
still breathes in America. The allies
who fought the war with us are not
to be deserted-peace is 10 be made in
| harmony with their wishes rather than
those of Germany.
| MIR. Harding himself surveys the situa-
| ton. with the naive confidence that he
| has but expressed more definitely the
| pledges OF his campaign. 1t is this
| league of nations-the existing one,
which must be rejected. hut he utters
no word OF disapproval against plans to
| use the existing league as a basis for
1 hmm bot 4
! doesn't close the door on that But. of
course, changes would make ii a differ,
| cut lcagUe-perhapS the Harding league,
instead of the Wilson league. The true
| friends OF an ASSOCIATION OF nations do
not care much about names or titles
| The passion for international cooper
alton knows no pride of authorship.
| There II, moreover, a hope in the
camp of the pro league Republicans that
/ Mr., lardlng's league may be even Il bet
4 ter league. II ITKiS ltsltis better than fore
sight and the inter weaving of the
| league with the enforcement of the Yer.
-ailles treaty. which was conceived BY
| MIR, Wilson as a virtue. is now looked
| upon by many true Friends OF the league
| such as Herbert Hoover, as a Tetarding
/ intiuencc-au obstacle To the better de
| velopment of international amity MIR
| Hoover has contended throughout that
| the separation of the enforcement
clauses of the treaty from those which
| have for their object international coun.
sci and confidence would be 4 step for
ward i'm the history OF world co-opera-
ton MIR. Harding zhas taken up the
idea and it Is receiving an enthusiastic
| response.
Bitter Enders" Gleeful.
| OF course the bitter cnders' regard
| As gust so much twaddle the notion that
there will ever be any kind of a league
Of nations with American membership
They say they are delighted with the
| message, because Mr.. Harding sticks n
knife in the Versailles treaty and Carves
out the league. They insist that once
the league is torn from the Versailles
treaty, it will collapse and while there
will be much talk, there will be no az
ton.
such forecast of the future NAV prove
true, eventually, but it finds no sym
pathy in the executive end of the ave
lnue where the influences for a closer
working agreement with the nations OF
the world are multiplying daily instead
of diminishing. Secretary Hughes of the
| department OF state Is pointing his poi
icy entirely toward American member
shin in some association of nations.
As for foreign governments, those
here who are in a position to say what
j Europe'S attitude will be, insist that MIR.
Il Harding has opened the way to COM
i promise. They are pleased beyond eN-
IDression. They say that for Europe it is
essential that the existing league of
! nations shall be used as a machinery
for q new association. To be sure,
they do not even think it would be diff
cult to substitute international commits
sions appointed by the signatOrcs 10
certain art icles of the Versailles treaty
for the commissions which the league
was to appoint. The task of separating
/ the league from the enforcement OF the
/ Versailles treaty can be accomplished
by amendments accepted by all the sig
natories. Article ten would either be
/ defined or limited in. it's application
| And the reparation problem would be
handled by an international commission
rather than by an agency. of the league
of nations.
May Accept Revised Treaty.
The big news of the message is that
Mr.. Harding is basing his objections to
1.-THE Versailles treaty largely on the
covenant and that with few omis
sions. such as perhaps the Shantung
section and the labor clauses, Mr.. Hard
ing would accept the Versailles treaty
and submit ut to the senate. Incident
Tally. the public may wonder why SO
many newspaper stories were sent
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