The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-02-24
NEW DIPLOMATS
MUST Be CHOSEN
SELECTION OF AMBASSADORS TO
The GREAT POWERS WILL BE
ONE or HARoINo's TASKS.
RACIAL PReJUDiCES FIGURE
These the President Always Consid.
ers-New Commercial Policies and
Economic Conditions Must Be
studied by the Appointees.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK.

BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Neutrality-suspicious. Of the high duties
Of Presidcnt-elect Harding will be to
choose from among his wealthy Re
publican fellow citizens men who are
competent to act as ambassadors to
the great powers OF earth, or as min
listers to the lesser powers. The word
wealthy Is not used inyidiously for
everybody knows that no American
can take one of these place unless he
hns an abundance of private means to
pay his necessary expenses and To keep
up the traditions of his office.
The new ambassadors must be- men
who understood business In its intricate
commercial sense, and who understand
also the finesse of diplomacy. The
work Of an ambassador today IL ex-
acting. II requires keen insight, tact,
Suavity and well-balanced Judgment
The task of choosing such men will be
u hard one. II men who are not up
To standard ARE chosen. the United
states will suffer In hundred aud
one ways
Conditions In Europe are just what
everI body knows What they nre. The
man who coined the word "chaos" had
just such an inspiration for the coin
age ms the conditions which now exist
nll over the world. The ambassadors
and ministers of the United States,
present and to come, Will have AS "A
part Of their high work the effort To
aid In bringing the proyerhial order
nut Of chaos"
Considering Racial Prejudice.
II might seem that the appointing
power might rise superior To the fnct
that racial prcjudiccs exist Ia the
United States. but Presidents. like
most other men holding elective offices
ia the United States seemingly have
TO consider politics" In appointing
minister to Great Britain. or to
France. or To Italy. or to any other
country. "a President of The United
States today seems To be compelled to
think first about lot Of things which
men here say ought not TO enter into
the matter u the appointment at all.
The men whom MIR. Harding will
appoint TO ambnssadorial and minis
terinl positions will be compelled To
undertake the consideration of a new
commercial poliry Tor their country.
More than this they will be compelled
To give II deep .tudy TO the existing
economic conditions In the countries
to which they are accredited. The
conditions which make trade possible
are as different today from those In
1913 IN England, France, Italy. Japan
such conditions to be-.
Some One Must Be Sent to Germany.
one Of the problems which ultimate
~ will probably meet the new Presi.
dent II that Of the appointment OF an
ambassador to Germany To-lay we
Still technically are at war with that
land Something like 100000 Ameri.
can soldiers we're killed or wounded
10y the bullets and the gas of the Ger
mans. aud nobody knows how many
Of the enemy Went down before the
muzzles and bayonet attacks OF our
Meuse. War runcors continue for
some time.
The new ambassador 20 Germany,
after the peace treaty finally In signed.
Will not conduct his work from IN
nOwery bed Of ease" II is probable
That the man who gets the appoint.
mrnt will deserve the sympathy OF his
fellow Countrymen.
II IL said In Washington that Mr..
Harding may select for the German
embassy man who has represented
rs In that country before. The Presl |
declared that this will be the best /
way out of IT,"
There have been some little frlctions |
with France since the day OF the ar
mistice. but they have not eugcndered |
much heat of controversy. In fact the /
new ambassador To France probably /
will have an easier time than any of .
his fellow ambassadors. The tradition
nj friendship with France is IA real |
Italy presents another problem to
day. for there conditions have changed
The Italian post however.
may not be as hard one to nh as
some Of the Others Then there is ia
pan, aud while diplomacy seeks 10
minimize every reported trouble with
the eastern country, there are trou-
bles nevertheless. A tactful man
will be needed In Japan. and one who
the Japanese tempera.
ment and state methods
Dawes Approved by A. e. r. Men.
The committee of congress which
has been making an Investigation into
he conduct of the war virtually has
finished It's work, II II said that the
report will contain nearly
fourteen million words and will make
twenty volumes Of "A government
document
Recently the committee has been
probing into the conduct of things I'm
he American eXpeditlonary forces. II
vas during this particular part of the
that Charles q, Dawes
,f Chicago. a brlgadler general In the