The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-04-01
HARDING IS FIRM
IN WORLD POLICY
Acts Harmful To u. S. Must
Be Undone If Nation
Enters League.
EUGENE J. YOUNG
(ln The Courier-JournalJ

United States In future they must I'M
do some of the things they put
across" In the Paris Peace Confer
'ence and in their later councils at the
expense of American interests.
That is plainly one of the funda-
mentals of the Harding Hughes for
eign policy which is being developed
with remarkable rapidly and deci-
siveness.
Instead of seeing America sink into
the Isolation" of which they have
talked so much. European states
men behold this country jumping
right into the middle of things with
thu demand that II shall be accord
ed equal and just recognition and the
rights of World Power OF it's i'm
portance-and strength.
II will take up world peace and
disarmament with nations which are
beg on making aworld condition in
which all shall have a fair chance;
j hut IL IL has to deal with Nations
which insist that the world shall be
appOrtioned among themselves for
their own selfish interests, then IL
will have TO depend ON its power TO
defend and gain its right.
Strong Stand Already Taken.
Here are things which have already
been made evident;
"a. The League of Nations will
not be permitted TO extend its author
ity over Latin-American problems,
particularly those of the Caribbean
Sea and the Panama Canal
ca The British. in particular,
will not be permitted to displace AM
erican interests in Mexico; Costa Rica
and other Latin-American countries
by means of concessions gained from
revolutionary governments which the
United States has not recognized.
30. The Wilson policy of insist
ing that the territories taken from
Germany must he administered for
the benefit OF all and not for the
benefit of the Empires holding them
will be backed up.
ca. Japan will not be permitted
to shut off cable communications with
Ching or to close the open door"
either to that country or Siberia.
go. Uncle Sam will not consent to
disarm himself and leave great en-
pires in possession OF the trade of
the world, the keys to the trade
routes and the means OF communica-
tion.
co. He will beg gently to re-
mind the other Powers concerned that
his troops broke the German front
at Scissors, at Mont Blanc, at the
Hindenburg line and in the Argonne,
and that he did quite a number of
other things to win the war, and
does not intend to be ignored in the
settlement OF the victory.
%. 1t will be held that in the
absence of ratification by the Senate
the settlements made at Versailles
are not binding on America. There
fore every one of the settlements is
subject to review once more under
the mandate of the American people
given in the last election and action
taken by the Allied Supreme Coun-
Gil under these settlements also can
not be considered as final.
Provoked by the Allies
OF course, these things have not
been set forth so badly as stated
here by either Mr.. Hughes or Mr..
Harding. But putting together what
has been said by members of the
Administration. either openly or in
their talks with correspondents, and
the action taken on problems as they
have arisen, il is easy to see the out
lines of a policy that is not improvisa-
ton, but has been well thought out as
the result of the soul-searching to
which the naticn and it's leaders have
been put during the last two years.
Possibly we might not have had so
quick and sharp revelation of these
policies had not the Entente Allies
and the League of Nations provoked
But the fact is that
these Powers compelled decisive
counter action by series of ques-
tionable moves which were curiously
timed so that full advantage could be q
taken of any weakness in American
statesmanship due to Emergencies
between the attitudes of Mr.. Wilson .
and Mr.. Harding.
To one whose experience leads to a
1istrust of the ways of European u
diplomacy il looked as though some g
sminent statesmen thought the Ill
ness of Mr.. Wilson, the bitterness be-
ween him and the Republicans, the A
apparent lack of touch between the e.
outgoing Administration and the in "