The Brunswick news., 1922-12-17
WAY cLRMENcEAU suCcEEDEn

70 tApecL. ~ has been greater tbdn
much in his speeches and articles jus
tihsd.
1t is success that would have been
more immediately apparent If instead
Of talking with his eye so constantly
on the Par newspapers he had spok-
en-. his real mind everywhere as he
did in Yesterdays interview in The
World. Obviously the response to
him would have been much more sen
sational had the American people
been allowed to see him as an old
French radical who was going home
to attack miIitarist and clerical reae-
tion, IN bis own country, instead 4 a
somewhat Name Tiger talking "
ciaI chayfinism.
But D Clemenceau was Bye ssere
to create sensations. And SO until
the day he sailed refused to say any
thing which would drag domestic
French politics into the discussion.
His tour was less interesting for tf1S
reason than If he had drawn the D.
sue at the start between himself and
French reaction. But this witty and
dauntless old Frenchman could risk
seeming to be dull for three weeks if
in that time he could advertise the
simple truth that America must work
with Europe, says the New York
World
So he put aside good deal of easy
popularity that would have come to
him by revealing his present position
in French politics. He concentrated
on one thing, and even threw some
red meat to the wolves at home so
that they would not molest the Tiger
in America.
To certain extent NJ Clemenceau
played in luck. He came after har-
vest which had left deep discontent
throughout the West. He came after
an election which had omphatically
repudiated the results, if not the poll
icy, of ISOLATION. He came at time
when people throughout the land
We're realizing, as they had not real
lied it for three years, that cur in
dustriaI system is out of joint be-
cause agriculture is depressed and
that agriculture is depressed because
the world marRst is disorderly.
He Pointed the moral when the les
son had already been taught. He has
started current Of discussion which
will gradually but Inevitably bring
American policy in line with Ame1i-
can needs and interests, instead of
with the partisan prejudices and
thoughtless campaign speeches of
1920.
IA. Clemenceau has achieved a sue
cess because at exactly the right mo
ment hs arrested attention and ut
tered an unanawerable truth which fs
supported by the irresistible logic of
fact.
Tbs forces driving America to work
again with Europe are Irresistible be-
cause they combine our greatest eco
nomic interest with our best sense
of duty to the rest Of mankind. The
policy Of Isolation b an utter failure
and moral humiliation. And while
because it n both 40 economic failure
men will often sacrifice their ideals
for their pockatbooks, and at times
their pociistbooks for their ideals,
they are not long enchanted by pol
icy which succseds in sacrificing their
pocketboolcs and their ideals at the
same time.
Therefore, Mr.. Harding rs cautious
ly trying to come out of his funk-cei-
lar. Some months. ago he learned
how to acknowledge letters addressed
to him by the League of Nations. A
little later he shook hands with the
Permanent Court of International
Justice.
uhat was all very little, tie still
ran away from Genoa and he ran
away from The Hague. Then came
the Lausanne Conference. BY this
time public sentiment had really be-
gun OF push him. Unofficial observ-
ers became official observers, and Of
fetal observers became Official spokes-
men.
His spokesman spoke. And the first
thing they had to say in the first Eu-
ropean conference attended by the
United States since Mr.. Harding took
office was that the Standard OIL Com
pany must have oil, The utter mean
mess of putting oil FIRST was quickly
RESENTED by the American people.
Under the lash of that resentment
| Mr.. Harding raised his voice two
months after the smyrna disaster in
behalf of the afflicted people Of Asia
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