The Washington times., 1922-12-06

The passion OF the United States
for swimming In the Dardanelles
along with al the European powers
while at the same time reserving
o itself all the swimming rights
N the Bay Of Fonseca in Central
America.
The long serious faces of the Cen
trail American nations while they sit
n conference in Washington and
'retend that the United States will
| be the great prop Of the Central
american Court Of Justice when I'm
fact the behavior of the United
States was one of the chief factors
| in pulling that court down.
There are plenty OF other good
| faudeville sketches in international
| >olitics today, but these are quite
nough to provide, Washington with
It's customary daily stock Of. laugh
er for the inward reasons follow.
ing. ..,.. go. 80,
In the case Of the Russian Joke
t is observed that the Bolsheviks
have now succeeded in gaining con-
troll of three of the most desired
I'll regions in the world and that
ach of these regions Is already
IN object of active interest by
american 81 companies. ,... ...., .
The Bolshevik government has
annexed the Far Eastern republic
n Siberia and has thus come into
possession of the northern half of
the island Of Sakhalin where the
American Sinclair OIL Company has
concession potentially even more
yaluable than the one which II
.njoys in the United States Naval
oil Reserve in Wyoming.
The Bolshevtk government has
also attended ,fts power definitely
md completely oyer the republics
# the CatCaAas ahd in that region
has granted ,ah Oil concession OF
immense Possibilities TO gentlemen
'esident III NewS York and not with
out acquaintances I'm Washington.
The Bolkheytk government finally
has .acqpited, such Influence over
the Turkish government at Angora
that when wa want to, talk to the
Turks about the open door for our
oil companies in Turkey We see
that we SoIld save a lot of, time
IL we talkSdat6 the Russians direct.
We alsd$ So that II anybody is
likely to ~ abley to influence the
Turks to bS nice to our mission
aries in Turkey it is the Bolsheviks.
Our present prospect is that by one
| means or another we soon shall be
saying to the Bolsheviks:
| you are the lads that can do
most for us in our most important
foreign interests-namely,. our oil
| companies and our missionary So
cieties. VIII you? We thank you"
iAs for NJ. Clemenceau, It is sus-
pected here that our State Depart
ment failed to present him with, an
engraved copy Of the first treaty
that we ever signed 1t was a
treaty with France. It was pre-
cisely the sort of treaty that M.
| Clemenceau now wishes us to sign
with France, 1t guaranteed certain
possessions of France - namely,
those in, the West Indies-against
Frances chief enemy. That enemy
at that time was Britain. We
promised. We did not, however,
perform. Britain attacked France
| and its possession In the West In
dies, and we stood by and permit
ted Britain to do SO without, lifting
our finger. -
This happened under George
| Washington. Now NJ. Clemenceau
/ WANTS ubdih, otu
since we would not go as far as the
| West Indies in order to execute a
| guarantee to France he thinks that
we would go as far as the Rhine,
which Is about ten times farther.
II is believed here that II genuinely
great men like M. Clemenceau would
delve deeper into American history
they would realize that one reason
why the United States. hesitates to
give France guarantee in 1922 is
that II remembers it's inability to
fulfil the one that 1t gave her in
1878. .'-'.',
As for the matter Of the Gulf sIof
| Fonseca and the Central American
| powers, 1t Is believed that 1t must
require much effort to maintain the
| stern solemnity of the conference
now going forward here for re-erect.
Ing the glory and majesty of the
Central American Court Of Justice.
The real news OF this matter is not
| In the present. 1t is in the past.
The Central American Court Of JUS
tice was first erected under the in.
spfration Of our State Department
and our Elihu Root. Thereafter
we signed certain treaty with Mica
ragua giving us certain naval rights
in the Gulf of Fonsecas Thereupon,
the Central American Court Of Jus
tice handed down q decision saying
that the treaty was q violation OF
the rights of certain other Central
American powers. Thereupon, we
paid absolutely no attention to the
decision of the court which we had
brought into existence; and this
court was hastened into evaporation
and disappearance and Elihu Root
went off and helped the League Of
Nations to start another interna-
tional court at The Hague In Hol.
land. ~
Now we wish to rs-start the inter.
national court In Centrs1 America
without, howevef. offering the world
any notable announcement OF any In
tention on our part to retire from
the physical advantages which we
possess In Central America and
which we gnined BY means Of the
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