Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-17
DOORS OPEN
TO FURTHER
NEGOTIATIONS
United States Has
Kindly Interest
in Russia.
ISOLATION GOES ON
Hughes Note Sets Up
Minimum Terms
for Change.
ISOLATION GOES ON
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BT FREDERICK WILLIAM VILE.
WASHINGTON, May 17.-Refusal Of
the United States to attend The Hague
post-mortem over Genoa does not close
the door to American participation in a
later conference or conferences dealing
with Russia. Statements to that Sig
nificaut effect were forthcoming at the
White House following the bi-weekly
meeting of the Cabinet. They We're aft
erward repeated and ampliied at the
State Department. They may be authort-
tatively interpreted as signifying that
the United States has not turned Its
hack on the Russian problem-that, on
the contrary, America is ardently desir-
Gus of assisting the Russian people In
coming back" and in promoting Eu-
ropean economic restoration in general.
IL conferences are called that promise
more hopeful results in that direction
than the Genoa meeting held out. or
that The Hague wake" offers. American
cooperation is not likely to be invoked
in vain. 1t is now up to- Europe and
soviet Russia to supply convincing
proofs on that score. Meantime, our
isolation, however unsplendid IL may
seem Ito Europe, would be maintained.
u was made Plain in Washington that
everything depends on the feasibility
OF our participation In future confef-
ences II will not be held feasible by
President Harding. Secretary Hughes or
SECRETARY Hoover IL soviet Russia ad-
heres to the program laid down in its
Genoa memoranda moi May IL. IL that
manifesto remains the soviet's last word
as terms for dealing with the outside
world, the United States will continue
to remain aIoof. America would con-
slider negotiations on such a basis, sheer
time-wasting and would not enter into
them.
DIPLOMATIC STYLE
Is APPROVED.
The rapid fire diplomacy exhibited by
President Harding and Secretary Hughes
commends genral approval in Washing
ton There are few cases on record dis
closing such speedy disposal of foreign
proposals of frst-ciass magnitude. With
in twenty four hours OF the Genoa mes
sage's arrival at the State Department.
our answer to it was drafted and trans
mirted 10 Italy. Secretary Hughes pre-
pared it. practically upon nrst reading
of The Hague proposal He submitted
il to President Harding, received the
lattr's unqualified assent, and cabled 1t
to Ambassador Child without delay
Both the matter of the American reply
and the expeditions manner in which 1t
United States mind on the Russian sit
uation is clearly made up. Secretary
Hughes was enabled to send instantane-
Gus word to Genoa, because what Amer
lea had to say she has said before, and
because she has little to add to 1t. The
one new thing was our conviction that
The Hague is merely Genoa under dif-
ferent name.
MAIN INTEREST
To EMBROIL 4. s.
Both the executive branch Of the Gov
eminent and Congress are persuaded
that Europe's main interest, however dis
guised. in embroi!ing us in the Russian
problem Is to induce us to become the
finar cfal end of any reconstruction ar
rangement. Europe cannot put UP any
money. The United States can. IL is
purely because OF that realization, Wash
ington authorities are convinced, that
Europe is so burningly anxious TO en-
snare US, by hook or crook, into the Rus
sian business. Meantime, the Hughes
Hoover school of thought on the subject
predominates. That school insists that
until within Russia itself there is estab-
lished a basis Of productivity" that Of
fers stable conditions for credit, guar
antees the rights OF property and pro-
tects the sanctity Of private contracts,
all t1ih OF lnteFuaIlDndi EelaLlOHS with
Russia in either a political or economic
sense. Is moonshine.
To be noted is the stress which the
latest Hughes pronouncement once again
lays upon Americas interest in 1.-THE
Russian people" 1t is with their veal
and woe, not with the fate of the soviet
government, that the United States Is con-
cerned The Hughes note TO the Genoa
conference affords no encoura cement to
those like Senator Borah. who urge rec
ognition of the soviet government. There
is undoubtedly a wide division of senti-
ment on that score in and out of Con-
gress IL the Borah recognition Yesolu-
ton is taken from the table of the Sem
ate ard pressed to a vote. there might be
a not inconsiderable measure Of support
for il.
Some Democratic sentiment Is said to
exist N favor OF recognition. but no one
believes there would be even approx
mately enough TO pass the resolution. II
would encounter vigorous hostility from
tbs Harding Administrator. unless In the
meantime there is that sweeping regen-
Grafton within Russia which alone. in the
esti-aLcon OF Secretaries Hughes and
Hoover would make American relations
with that country acknowledgement
1927, by Public Ledger Company.