The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-03-02
by A. l.. BRADFORD

ttHit'u iI'HH Hidli ''Il'Hp"HH'His
Washington, March AIN ih'
front rank OF AmerIcas creates
secretaries OF state.
That Ia tho way Warrington 4
thinking OF Charles Evans Hughes
chief OF the lntcrnatlonl relations O
fhs United States. whose first yeai
m this important office Is cIosin
with nm unprecedented list oi
achievements.
Perhaps II Is too early yet TO pro
nounce such judgment on Hughes
hut certain II Is that he is well on
the road Of winning the honor Of
becoming Americas greatest secre'
tary Of state.
For Hughes can look back ove-
the year upon so many accomplish
mcnts In the field of foreign rela-
tlons OF the United States. that II is
difficult TO record them.
The Arms Conference.
OF course, he Conference on Llmi-
tation of Armament and Far East
orn questions. just ended had been
Hughes greatest achievement; It
viii undoubtedly be the crowning
work of his career. In the negotia
lions leading up to the Conference
and In the rarley itself. Hughes is
regarded as having displayed the
high qualities of statecraft. Among
the great results wrought by this
Conference are the Naval Disarma-
ment treaty, the FourPower treaty
dIssolving the Anglo.Japanese alli-
ance and aimed to secure the peace
of the Pacific, the Shantung settle
ment. the Open Door treaty on Chi
ma and the other covenants.
When Hughes took office, an in
cipient war was engaging Costa
Riea and Panama. Fighting was go
ing on. The new secretary Of state
Immediately sent notes to both
countries In effort demanding In the
name of the United States govern
mant that the hostilites cease at
once.
While Panama long held out. even
appealing to President Harding di-
rect. the question was finally adj
justed as Hughes had said it should
b..
Hughes had been in the state de-
partment only few weeks when he
dispatched to the allied capitals a
lengthy note dealing with the entire
mandate question. 1t insisted that,
despite the rejection Of the Yer
sailles treaty. the United States had
succeeded to equal rights as the re-
suit of the war; ii protested against
the attitude of the allied powers re-
garding inundated territories and in
sisted that the United States must
be consulted on the disposition OF
these mandate rights; it declared
that TIE United States could not
recognize the Yap mandate as it
had been awarded to Japan. This
question has since been settled by a
treaty.
Later Hughes was called on to
act regarding this governments at
titude on Russia. The Soviet regime
apparently moved by reports that
the Harding administration might |
recognize it, sent message to
Washington asking permission to
send delegation to this country to !
establish commercial relations be-
tween the United States and Soviet
Russia. Hughes replied immediate T
ly. in short terse dispatch, reaf-
firming the Wilson Russian policy, |
and declaring commercial relations I
were useless so long as the present
economic policies of the Soviet gov
ernment were maintained.
The Mexican Enigma.
Should the United States recog-
nize the Obregon government of
Mexico?D was big question which
faced Hughes. He called George 7.
Summerlin, charge of the American
embassy in Me xico, to Washington
and definite Mexican policy was
framed in consultation at the state
department. Summerin took back
to Mexico with him the draft of a
new commercial treaty between the
United States and Mexico
1.-THE fundamental question" Hughes
said, between the United States and
Mexico was the protection of private
This question was to have
been settled in the new treaty by
adequate and complete protection of
American rights and interests, and
this treaty was to effect recognition.
The treaty was proposed to Obre-
gon, but because Of false reports at