Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-23
SPEAKING FOR THE PRESIDENT

If Ambassador Harvey, in his speech before
the Pilgrim Society in London, expressed the
sentiment of President Harding in regard to
the League of Nations it is a pity the President
himself could not have found it convenient to
set forth his definite policy on this Impor-
tart natter instead of leaving it to a mon
erel politician to act as his spokesman in some
foreign country.
The President has been anything but definite
in his stand on the League of Nations. He
has blown first lot and then cold on the
Issue. never making a clean-cut, positive state
n9@nt as to where he stands. When ne mas
Come near doing so he has been prompt to re-
(pudiate the meaning that the public might have
taken from his remarks.
But there Is nothing indefinite or vague about
the way Ambassador Harvey sets forth the aa-
miuistrAtion's policy regarding the League OF
NIasions. After making the same serious mis-
take that 80 many other opponents OF the league
have made in claiming that the enormous ma
1ority given President Harding last November
Wa based solely on the League of Nations is
sue. Ambassador Harvey says:
sIt follows, then, that the present
government could not, without betrayal
Of It's creators and masters, and will
not. I can assure you, have anything
whatsoever to do with the league of
any commission or committee appoint
Cd by It or responsible to it-directly
or indirectly. openly or furtively.'
such a positive statement would have come
with better grace from President Harding HIM
self. or, at least, from Secretary Hughes VINO
A supposed to be at the head of the foreign
Affairs of the nation. 1t is reported that the
White House gives silent approval to the
remarks made by the newly appointed am
bassador to the Court Of st. James. From the
public point of view it would look as if 1t was
4 case of pernicious meddling and over-step-
ping the bounds Of propriety.
But there is nothing surprising in anything
that George Harvey will do in the way of self
assertiveness. He has got to be the whole snow
in anything in which he is concerned or ne
will not play at all. He tried to run WOOD
row Wilson and when he found he could not
heZ1:~nd on him and became his bitterest
enemy. From a Democrat he jumped into the
Republican ranks and at once took the reins'
It war in Harvey's room at Chicago during the
hast Republican convention that the conference
was held that decided on Warren G. Harding
a. the Republican candidate for the presidency
and it was this same Harvey who hung around
the Yfront porch all through the campaign
dictAting, it is believed by a great many most
ot/Hardins's speeches. AS his reward ne re-
k!ved the appointment of ambassador to Great
Isritain. No doubt the underlying motive IN
Harvey's whole attitude has been his desire TO
show his spite for Mr.. Wilson.
1t his hatred for Woodrow wilson, Harvey
Is closely associated with the "bitter-enderS
and 'reactionaries" in the United States sem
ate. These men have Dragged that 1t MADE no
difference who was appointed secretary or state
because the foreign policy of the United stateS
would be dictated by the foreign relations COM
rrittee of the senate.
The question naturally arises whom ooes
Ambas sador Harvey represent. the President
or the senate's committee on foreign relations?
The reactionaries did their best to prevent
Charles e. Hughes being appointed secretary
of state in the first place. When they found