Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-15

The sure and short way to send the
United States laundering into the dense
thicket of ancient feuds" in which, ac-
cording to MIR. Lloyd George, European
diplomacy does its work, has been dis
covered by the Harding Administration.
Reorgani,s and rename the allied SUI
preme council as that association of ma
tons" proclaimed from Marion last sum
mer, accept membership for the United
states, and the thing is done But the
ancient feuds are not the worst of the
troubles in which we should become en-
meshed. Scan the scroll of the centuries
and you find, to be sure the record OF
countless wars between the nations of
Europe; at one time or another each has
been at strife In turn with many or most
Of the others. The special causes of
these old wars are far Off, mostly forgot
ten, and with them the hates and ran
cors they engendered The rivalries and
jealousies of this present time are a con-
tinuing and nearer menace to the peril
Gus structure planned at Washington.
He must be a careless student of Euro
pean history Of today who does not see
how indispensable are the relations of
protested friendship between the states
men of the nations represented In the
supreme council who fails to perceive
how calculation and selfish interest throt-
tie the impulses of noble generosity and
open-handed fair dealing, as they have
done in European diplomacy for hundreds
of years. There at one time or another
every aspiring power has found it's Car
thage in some neighbor power. A cen
fury and a half ago Frenchmen were
accustomed to say that their land was
England's Carthage The Briton had
come to commercial greatness. France
with her colonial ambitions and her sur
passing skill lin manufactures stood in
his way; and Frenchmen explained the
hostility of England by putting into the
mouths of the English the prayer Of
Rome for the destruction of Carthage
Presently rivalries are not so ferocious.
but they exist; they influence, they con-
troll, international policies. In the su-
preme council they are as busy as bees
in hive. The German Preparations
strained its harmonies. Upper Sllesia
nearly wrecked 1t. Asia Minor, where the
policies of Italy, France, England and
Greece are at this moment in sharp con-
fict, presents a new peril-rather a very
old peril in new forms.
1t Is the interest of France that there
be strong Poland, In friendly alliance
with her, like the Russia of Nicholas IL
to hold In cheek a possibly restored Ger
many. Since the day when In the peace
conference he suddenly shifted his posi-
ton, Mr.. Lloyd George has successfully
dissembled whatever interest he at any
time may have felt IN the future Of the
Republic OF Poland. The Kraesin treaty
and marked reluctance to oppose Ger
man pretensions in Upper Silesia reveal
the dominant Influence Of mercantile in
terests with the<present British govern
ment. Ninety years ago these same in
terests were so solicitous about their
trade with the Dutch that they vehe-
mently opposed the use of force by the
British and French to bring the King
of Holland to reason. Palmerston, who
knew that failure to act decisively In
volved the risk OF a great war, disre-
garded their protests, sheir meetings
their petitions 70 the king Holland was