Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-30
WILSON INDICATED
BY B|TTEREST FOES
ON FOREIGN AFT FAIRS
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
neased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1922

Copyright, 1929
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The
pendulum swings strangely back.
Who shall conduct the foreign pol
icy of the United States government
the senate or the president?
1t was only a little over three
years ago when in the midst of a
negotiation on the part of the chief
executive with foreign governments
| that the famous round-robin was
signed by Republican senators warn
| ing Woodrow Wilson that the Yer
sailles treaty wouldn't be ratified.
Today, Senator Lodge, leader in
the round-robin episode, is pleading
with Senator Borah, of Idaho, anoth-
err Republican, to let the president
alone, to refrain from embarrassin
him with resolutions that might be
premature or might seem even re-
motely to commit him to course of
action which he might find it adj
vantageous to America to postpone.
The explosion in the senate is not
standing by deriving considerable
satisfaction out of the vindication
of their position of the last three
lyears on world affairs. 1t is a funda!
mental quarrel between two schools
of thought in the Republican party.
The outbreak was inevitable. 1t las
been coming on for three years, and
is just now reaching it's climax.
The fight isn't between those who
believe in international cooperation
and those who favor a policy of iso-
lation for America. That lineup has
been more or less broken up in the
present fight over Mr.. Borah's reso-
luton requesting the president to
call an economic conference.
BOrah's Position
The Idaho senator has been look
ed upon as the foremost advocate
of an isolationist policy while Mr..
Lodge and most of the Republicans
have really favored some kind of
| international cooperation right
along. Proof that it isn't contro-
versy between isolation and inter.
nationalism is afforded in Mr..
Borah's speech in the senate on
Wednesday when he said:
II look upon the question of deal
ing with these economic problems at
this time as distinctly an American
question, not exclusively so but in
| clusively so. 1t has reached the
point where we are as deeply con-
cerned and ultimately to be quite as
much affected by the situation as
any European power. 1t can no
| longer be said that in dealing with
| these matters we are dealing eX-
clusively with European questions.
1t is quite as much and in some re-
| spects quite as seriously an Ameri-
| can question as the question of
war was in the spring of 1917. IT
we are to believe the reports which
| come to us from every quarter not
only in Europe but in the United
States. the economic problems have
now reached the point where they
are of practical concern to the peo-
pie of the United States. 1t is now
an American problem. We are suf-
fering and suffering greatly"
The foregoing speech is notable
| because it marks an evolution in
the American senate. President Will
son and his followers made that very
argument when they urged ratlfica-
ton of the Versailles treaty they
claimed that a proper settlement Of
| the economic situation Of the world
made it incumbent upon America TO
! play an active part in world affairs.
Senator Hiram Johnson, OF Cali.
fornia, says that what Mr.. Borah is
advocating today is exactly the line
of argument taken by Mr.. Wilson.
So do others who see in Mr.. Borah's
Sppech a change of front