The Washington times., 1922-09-30
SENATOR'S BACK
HEARST STAND
ON NEAR EAST
Hardwick, Moses, New, and
Others Sound Warning to
Protect Own Shores.
BY Universal Service.

to Europe and It's lesson to the
white races prompted comment anu
in high places today.
Gov, Thomas w. Hardwick oil
Georgia, here en- route from Can
ada to Atlanta, said:
Mr.. Hearst Is right in sounding
a solemn warning against partlcl'
patton Of the United States in the
Near East. The situation is such
hat almost anything can happen.
I'VE should send enough ships
there to care for our citizens ana
see that no harm comes to them
But / am unalterably opposed to
policy of making a demonstration
hat is calculated to help any o.
the foreign powers.
I'VE cannot conceivably protect
all of the non.Turkish peoples IN
Asia Minor without going to war
We should protect the American
there and everywhere else, for that
matter, and expend any excess
energy we have on the people al
home.
THE menace of the Turk and
other Moslem millions at the gate
way of Europe emphasizes the Wis
dom of the advice that the Euro
pean nations must get together for
their own salvation. They nave
no time to lose.
Wilson Tied U. S. Hands.
Senator George II. Moses Of New
Hampshire:
The practical helplessness Of the
United States IN the present Near
Eastern crisis was established when
Mr.. Wilson. misguidedly accepted
equally misguided advice and re-
fused to approve the proposal that
the United States should declare
war upon Turkey and Bulgaria
when those nations were allied
with the Teutonic empires. In
consequence we are now estopped
from anything more effective than
an academic gesture or the proVid'
ing of national relief for the nun
dreds Of thousands OF Christian
refugees who have fled before the
approaching and encroaching Mos
lem armies.
EFF a new war and that a holy
war now breaks out 1t will not and
cannot be localized in the Near
East, and its western limits can
hardly he conjectured. doubt II
II ever reaches us. Lack OF ocean
transport to the Turks and their
Bolshevik allies. on the assumption
that they NAV be successful in Eu-
ropean land operations, will Of it.
self protect our shores from inva-
sion; and 5000 miles Of blue water
will remain our constant defense.
1T is idle at this moment to
seek the causes OF this fresh alarm
to the world But II Is wholly per-
tinent to remark that Great Britain
has once again backed the wrong
horse"
Must Protect Civilization.
Senator Henry L. Myers. Mon
tana:
II am in thorough accord with
the sentiment that the nations Of
Europe ought to combine their
forces to keep the Turk out Of
Europe II is time for them to for
get their differences and act in con-
cert in the face of this great peril
to civilization. 1t is their duty to
do this, not only for the purpose
Of protecting their own territorial
integrity, but for the more i'm
portant purpose Of preserving civ
ilization against the uncivilized
horde which threatens to overrun
Europe.
What has become of the League
of Nations? II the league were
functioning in the manner pre-
scribed for it, the nations in the
league would be acting in concert
and exerting the power of the
league to compel the Turk to re-
main in Asia. But II the league is
unable to do this, II certainly is
the duty of the nations of Europe
to get together and force the Turks
to stay out Furthermore, l am
strongly Of the opinion that all the
Christian nations, including the
United States. should make demand
upon the Turkish forces that the
massacre Of Christians should be
stopped and armed force should
be employed. If necessary, to COM
pei the Turks to obey this man.
date"
League Now ImpOtent.
Senator Frank B. Brandegee of
Connecticut:
"If we had accepted the mandate
over Armenia, as former President
Wilson recommended to the Senate,
the burden Of the entire Turkish
question now would be shifted to the
shoulders of America, which doubt
less was what the European powers,
who knew exactly what they were
about, desired to accomplish.
THE present developments have
brought about the enactment Of one
of the most fantastic farces Of mod
ern international relations. When
we were being besieged to permit
the United States to become involved
in the League of Nations, the strong.
est argument advanced by the
League advocates was that II would
prevent just such situations as this
from endangering the peace of the
world. When there was war or
threat of war, the nations Joining the
League were morally obligated, as
Mr.. Wilson asserted, to meet to-
gether and decide on a course of
action to be pursued in composing
the difficulty.
But in the present situation,
which is the first grave matter that
has called for action by the League
under it's moral obligation, the
League Is absolutely impotent. The
men in control OF the countries he.
longing to the League, Mr.. Lloyd
George, Mr.. Poincare and others, ap'