The Washington times., 1922-04-22

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we are at peace. Those words meant
Russia. Members Of the platform
committee explained they meant
Russia. The Republican party com
mitted itself to trGSling with Russia
3. Mr.. Harding. in the course of
the 1920, campaign, committed him.
self personally to trading with Rus
sia. Mr.. Harding as a United States
Senator had always been opposed to
bullying Russia He did not approve
of>efforts to oust the bolsheviks from
Russia by foreign military force. He
favored bringing our American
troops back from Russia. In the
course of the 1920 campaign he ex
pressed himself personally as being
in favor Of full normal trade rela
tions with Russia. He was fop- nor
malcy in that matter as in all nat
ters.
4. However. he also declared in
favor OF getting the countrys best
minds" into his cabinet and he got
Mr.. Hughes mind at the head Of the
Department OF State and Mr.. Hoov-
ers mind at the head Of the Depart
ment of Commerce, and these TWO
minds turned out to be full of hest
tations and objections to trading with
Russia.
5-Meanwhile. Mr.. David Lloyd
George. not being a best mind but
only-like Mr.. Harding himself-a
practical politician. went ahead and
in 1921 resumed trading with Rus
sia on behalf of Great Britain. He
then further in this year 1922 con-
vened this Genoa conference at
which In the middle OF all rows,
ructions rufnors and roorbacks.
he is steadily steering all Europe
into resuming full nsmal trade re-
lations with Russia.
6-The city of Washington mean
while today. under the influence Of
best minds" is looking at Genoa
and holding up iV hands and eX-
claiming: "Ain't it all TERRIBLE"
Yet the essential thing that is
getting done at Genoa on behalf of
all Europe is precisely the thing
that the Republican platform of 1920
and the personal conversation OF the
1920 said ought TO be done on behalf
of the United States.
Or, in other words. Mr.. Harding's
administration is jeering at Mr..
Lloyd George for his troubles and
tribulations in trying to carry out
Mr.. Harding's own Russian policy.
Or again, in other words. our
best minds" have prevailed upon
us not only to abandon our own
declared intention or trading with
Russia, but~also TO he plea sed with
ourselves when we see other cOun-
tries going in and getting the Rus
sian trade.
Mr.. Harding has a splendid sense
of humor, and he needs it,
But now comes rescue for Mr..
Harding. Ex-Governor Goodrich Of
Indiana, who has just returned frJrl
Russia to tell Mr.. Harding about - o
Russian situation. is not best
mind He is nothing but a normal
mind too. He is not the Presidents
special informant and messenger
from Russia. He believes the present
Russian government is a stable guN
crnment and he favOrs efforts to Cr.
ter into relations with II.
SO now we have two normal minds
GGainst two best minds, and perhaps
normalCy will pick up courage ?rd
assert itself.
1t is noted that Mr.. Lloyd George
established trade relations for Bit.
ain with Russia only after overcom-
ing the two best minds in his own
British cabinet-the two minds m, ct
superior to normalCy-namely Lord
Curzon and Mr.. Winston Churchill
We now in Washington have a sub.
terranean contest in this matter Of
Russia between normally and pracN.
cal politics as represented by the
President and Ex-Governor Goodrich,
and certain lofty considera tiOns of
economic and political principle and
theory as represented by Mr.. Hoover
and Mr.. Hughes. The President Is a
man who likes to act in harmony
with his associates. Mr. LLOYD
George is a man who likes to have
his associates act In harmony with
him.
Their" is no other difference be
tween Mr.. Lloyd Georges Russian
policy as effected by him in 1921 and
Mr.. Harding's Russian policy as 1e-
clared by him year earlier in 1920.