The Cordova daily times., 1922-07-12


 concerning the United States. On her return to England, after visit to her native land, she delivered an address in which she said, among other things, "America is bound to have foreign policy" That statement means, if it means anything at all, that America today has no foreign policy. We deny the assump, tion that the United States has no foreign policy. :&'E '@' 's' fF s' '-' "''es' 'Fs Az"'
 It is true that the United States has no policy of foreign aggression-no desire to sub iugate weak nations or take undue advantage of our strength It is also true that we have no policy which will permit us to make the ''supreme sacrifce' proposed by President Wilson when he advocated American partici patton in the League of Nations. But because we are neither aggressive and grasping, nor as yielding as some would like to have us, it does not follow that the United States has no foreign policy at all.
 Our foreign policy has been one of Give and help live." We have undertaken to maintain here nation in which the people may enjoy the greatest individual freedom consistent with due respect for the rights of others, and we are willing that similar privileges shall be maintained in every other land. When that policy of helping others to live and enjoy free dom brought us into conflict with Spain, and gave us dominion over former Spanish islands. we did not use that dominion for our material aggrandizement but solely for the well-being and happiness of the peoples who had come under our control. Never has it been charged that the United States has been an oppressor.
 Our foreign policy has been to increase friendship among nations and to settle differ cnces by conference, arbitration or adiudica- tion, rather than by force of arms, but we have never yielded our right to control our own domestic affairs nor made ourselves subject to a superstate. We have settled boundary disputes by arbitaration and have induced other nations to do the same. We have been distress. from whatever land it has come, but we have not let our sympathies betray us into leagues with national dishonor.
 Our foreign policy has been consistent in avoiding political utilization with any other nation or interference in the affairs of any other nation but we have been jealous in guarding our own rights from direct or in direct interference from abroad. We have never yielded one iota of the doctrine that European interference with nations in the Western Hemisphere must be construed as an offense to us.
 Our foreign policy has led us to join other nations where we have common inter csts and to cooperate with them to the extent that our common interests may require, but when that has been done, we have severed the relationship in accordance with our tra- ditional policy of avoiding foreign political entangicments
 Though Lady Astor, possibly because of prejudice growing out of her present British citizenship, may think we have no foreign policy, and that we shall have none until it accords with what Britain thinks our policy should be- we beg respectfully to assert that we have foreign policies as honorable as def inite and as permanent as those of any other nation. We challenge her to state any British policies that are superior to our own.
 Citing a typical case, Councilman Harry Cribb has wisely raised the question of who has the jurisdiction over misdemeanor cases perpetrated in Anchorage. It would seem that the federal officials are infringing upon the rights of the city. The special case upon which Mr. Cribb bases his argument is one wherein the chief of police made the arrest and turned the party over to federal officials for trial The question was discussed at length at the last council meeting to the end that the coun- cilmen practically agreed with Mir. Cribb and supported his contention. If the city has no