South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-06
Other Editors Than Ours
OUR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Chicago Daily NeWs.)

The country will get good deal OF comfort and
cheer out OF the growing nervousness and apprehen-
sion OF the irreconciabIes and business men will
take fresh courage The administration clearly
recognizes that something be done the way
of ordering our foreign relations and It apparently
up it's mind that the irreconcllable policy
Will do. How far 1t is prepared to in the other
direction is Yet be learned there must be
peace seems TO be agreed, and If there is 10 oe
no separate peace as also appears to be the case.
then there must be peace made in association with
friends abroad.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger has outlined
what il believes 90 be the program of Secy Hughes.
TWO of the FIVE points thought be beyond
dispute. The first IL that there shall be separate
peace with Germany. and the second is he rejection
Il the America first. idea of isolation from inter-
rational affairs As 10 the third Iont Pres't Hard
ing himself more than used language that
entirely consistent with IT, II Is that America
ready 10 join with other nations in reOrganizng
and stabilizng the dsordered affairs OF the world"
Thus far should say that the Philadelphia
Ledgers forecast is not far out of the
The fourth and fifth items more doubtful and
yet there is nothing improbable about them. Hero
they are.
a. The United states realizes the mprac-
tCabihty of asking the destruction OF the exist
ing League OF Nations.
80. This government is prepared to accept
an il regards good in the League from
American standpoint and TO recommend substi-
tutes for what It regards as bad"
The irrecOncilables are hghting political and
monte forces that hardly less Irresistible than
realized. Quite important the program attri-
tuted 90 Secy Hughes is the attitude that he is said
hold. The Public Ledger says that he is prepsr-
Ing 10 meet the issue in a spirit OF statesmanlike
t,arlessness" and continues.
There is 10 be trihing. pettfOggng.
no mean and narrow partsanship. There is 70
Doe no harI ling on ancient grudges that had their
origin in Wilson policies These policies
be treated dead and bygOne. 1t is with the
world il stares in the face IN the spring
of 1921 that Mr. Hughes proposes 20 deal He
VIII proceed the lines immortalized by
Grover Cleveland that face conditions
theories. They not Just the conditions that
the United states would prefer. but they
here. and we must make the best OF them. That
is the Hughes policy in nutshell"
tary deals with the issue this basis. and faces
the situation in this spirit he need greatly both
or himself about the irreconciables For he will
have the support OF Overwhelming majority OF
the republican party OF the democrats. and OF the
country generally. johnson may rage" and La
Toilette. Borah and Harvey Imagine a vain thing"
cut the world viii sweep onward-and upward
leaving them stranded The question as We suggest
Cd Yesterday. is whether there Is be a republican
PARTY Johnson Borah- Harvey LaFollette party
The Philadelphia paper may be optimistic. but
there certainly is ground for hope great
educators and the possession OF power has sober
ing and enlightening effect