The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-01-05
-FOUR POWER PACT
GEM FOR BREWTY
SOME S~iDELIGHTS ON THE ARMS
CONFERENCE BY OUR
CORRESPONDENT
FRIENDSHIP FOR POOR RUSSIA RENEWED
Enthusiasm Growing for Deep Water
Way from Great Lakes to
Atlantic Ports.
BY j. T.. Jones.

"a IIChly SdUoI 1OuSC
drew the four-power pact he must
have believed that his authorship pro-
duced the most concise and far-reach.
ing document in the history of all di.
plomacy. "A gem for brevity," de-
clared Washington. 80 simple and
plain" exclaimed many. Henry Cabot
Lodge made a speech in which the
sprigs and blossoms of oratory almost
shut off the view of the ~four-pOwer
pact for peace, and the latter was
adopted-a la "all in favor will say
aye; "all opposed will say no."
The ayes have it and the motion is
carried unanimously" Hurrah! hurrah!
hurrah!
The next day the questioning began.
Henry Cabot Lodges masterpiece was
admittedly Of the class that Shakes
peare found, mot so deep as a well,
nor so wide as a church door; but
t is enough, t will serve But like
the well it has holes in it, and some
OF these appear to be as wide as
church doors. The reporters rushed
pell-mell to see Mr.. Hughes, and he
told them just what was meant by
"dominions,' continents" provinces"
and all such terms. Does the four
power Pacific treaty mean," they
asked, that the powers have agreed
to protect insular possessions and
does that mean the homeland of
Japan?' Mr.. Hughes said these very
things we're intended. And then came
up questions as to whether Australia
is a continent, as 1t used to be de-
scribed in the Biographies. The an
swer was that for the purposes OF d.
plomacy Australia is a new island.
After Mr.. Hughes had everything
apparently Strengthened out, the re-
porters began asking questions of
President Harding, and the latter gave
1t as his view that the agreement did
not guarantee protection of the home
land of Japan" but that it merely GOV.
cred island possessions Of the Pacific.
The presidents statement caused
CONSERVATION in conference circles.
Evidently the president and his secre-
tary OF state had gotten different
angles to Mr.. Lodges Magma Charta
of peace. But in that they were no
different from others who studied the
document carefully.
The Lodge document apparently
needs as many Interpretations and
reservations to make it whole as
the longer treaty which former Presi-
lent Wilson brought back from Paris.
The conference recognizes Mr..
Hughes as its greatest figure and
leader, and it is likely that he will be
the one called upon at every stage of
the proceedings to- iron out misunder-
standings in the Lodge pact.
Reports received by the president
indicate that ninety per cent of all
relief that has reached the people of
Russia has been contributed by the
people of the United States. The Of
fetal work in connection with Rus
sian relief is being fastened. Incl
dentally, the love that turned to
hate" against Russia is r%eappearing
in the United States, and there is
every evidence that there will be "a
renewal of old-time friendship" as
1t is described by a White House re-
porter. One hears a good deaf in con-
ference circles about the debt of
gratitude" due Russia for it's help dur.
ing the early days of the war, when
the car was in the saddle; and in
the latter period when Kerensky came
into power.
The lineup to free Eugene V. Debs
and the other political prisoners grew
very large before Christmas. Mrs.
Robert NJ. LaFollette, wife of the Wis
consin senator, headed a delegation to
the White House and presented a mon
ster petition signed by Debs' n%eighbors
in his home town, asking for his re-
lease. Within the past few weeks
practically all opposition to the release
of these prisoners has ceased, and
speculation in Washington turned from
n of concern about what the presi-
dent will do" to theorizing on when
he would do it."
Poor old Emma Goldman and her
crew of American anarchists are per-
soma non grata in Europe. and the
German authorities would not permit
them to enter that country unless they
agreed to go straight through" Rus,
STA doesn't suit Miss Goldman and her
friends, and evidently Lenine, Trotsky
& Co.. r%eciprocate the lack of affection.
The anarchists would like to return to
the United States, but all official bars
are up against them.
Victor Berger, Milwaukee's socialist
editor and former congressman. who
was convicted of the crime of sedition,
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