The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-06-02
tIt Must Not Be Again.

| Laying a WreaCn one one Oh, Cne o.
| PIP fag-draped caskets of soldier
dead on the pier at Hoboken, Presl-
| dent Harding exclaimed: "It must not
be again! It must not be again! God
grant it will not bel"
This is a noble sentiment and a
true sentiment, expressing what is in
the hearts of. an overwhelming major
ity of the American people, yet one
may ask in good faith and in all re-
spect to the inspiring emotions of the
President what he and his admlnlstra-
ton are doing to prevent the recur-
renee of another war with even great
er destruction of life and property
and even greater peril to civilization.
When the American people were
making their sacrifices in the troubled
vars of 1917 and 1913 they believed
they were engaged in a war to end
war. Mr.. Harding's Ambassador to
the Court of ST. James in stump
speech at the Pilgrims dinner, has
told the British people in effect that
this was an amiable delusion. We had
no motive, he says, except to save our
own skins. We sent our troops TO
Europe "solely to save the United
States of America, and most reluct-
antly and laggardly at that" Our only
accomplishment was that I'VE came
along toward the end and helped you
and your allies shorten the war. That
is all we did"
Consequently the United States will
not have anything to do with the
League of Nations, cor with any COM
mission or committee appointed by
it or responsible to it, directly or in
directly, openly or furtively."
More than 500 representatives OF
the Pro-League Republican -independ-
ents have sent a cablegram to Lord
Robert Cecil protesting against Mr..
Harvev's speech and denying his state
nent that the Harding majority was
4 majority against the entrance of the
United States into the League of Ma
ions 1t was fitting to send such a
Message to- Lord Robert Cecil, who
1elped to draft the covenant OF the
league, who has been one OF It's
tuanchest champions and who repre-
ented the South African Republic at
he first meeting of the League AS
embly. 1t would have been still
more fitting to send this message to
he President of the United States,
Who is responsible both for his Am
,assador to the Court of ST. James,
nd also for the foreign policy of the
American government.
However offensive Mr.. Harvey's
peech may be to the conscience Of the
ountry and however emphatically 1t
nay be repudiated by Pro-League Re
,ublicans, Mr.. Harding has not repu-
lated it. Mr.. Hughes has not repu-
lated it. No responsible spokesman
or the administration has repudiated
t. On the contrary, it stands as an
expression of his confident belief in
he thoroughly selfish and sordid mo-
ives of the American people when
hey entered the war.
Nobody need question the sincerity
f President Harding's expression OF
lope in the presence of the soldier
askets that such a war will not hep
ven again. The fact remains that the
President has refused to have any
hing to do with the only agency ever
reated which was invested with pow
r to avert war or to limit the scope
f war. Not only that, but while with
olding all American participation, Of
cia representatives of the Harding
administration are doing everything
hat lies in their power to destroy
he league to which nearly fifty other
ations have adhered and which they
re endeavoring to make effective for
he preservation Of the peace of the
rorld.