The Washington times., 1922-06-18
By LINDSAY CRAWFORD
Editor The Statesman, MOntreaID
United StaeCna Entente Seen Probable After Meeting OF Amer
ican Bankers Following Our Lead and Beating Swords
Into Powshares-W Resist British Pressure to Make He
Military Adjunct of the War 0mce. II" 1s
written for Universal Service.

Written for Universal Service.
MONTREAL. Quebec. June IL.
|" HE declaration Of the exccu.
tive council Of the American
Il Bankers Association. calling
for q closer community Of interest
between Canada and the United
States, constituting, as they DO,
"the greatest geographical union
of EngIish-speaking people OF the
world" has been featured on the
front pages of the Canadian press,
but with the timidity that distin.
guishes Canadian writer's on The
subject of the relations between
the two countries comment mas
been withheld.
As a general rule the Canadian
press is far In the rear Of public
opinion on questions that may
even remotely affect that hardy
annual of domestic polemics, the
British conneclon.
IN ed, 1t is safe to say that. as
klhde to the real sentiment of
Canadians on this and cognate
questions. opinion must be sought
from the man in the street rather
than from the scribes. who defer
to the counsels OF the high priests
of Imperialism.
COMES AT PROPER TINE.
The declaration Of the American
bankers comes at time when the
official mind in the Dominion
shows healthy signs Of a closer ap-
Proclamation to Canadian thought
on the great issues that today are
separating the sheep from the
goats at the judgment seat of in
ternAtional atonement and recon
struction.
II comes at a moment when Can.
ada, following the lead Of the
United States. is turning from mill
tarism to economic construction:
when Canadian statesmen and peo-
pie are casting into the discard the
implements of war and are beating
the swords into plowshares.
Alone among the foreign nations
represented~a the Washington
conference Canada has redeemed
her pledges Of peace by turning to
the paths of peace. Canada has
disarmed.
Her Parliament and government.
with a century of peace on her bor-
ders to disarm all suspicion of war
along her three thousand miles Of
unguarded frontier, have scrnpped
the navy and reduced the land
forces to skeleton units. 49,
To mark their adherence of the
militaristic spirit that imperialists
have striven to perpetuate as a
war legacy. they have stripped the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
formerly known as the Northwest
Mounted Police (the famous Riders
Of the Plains) of the quasi.miiitary
powers conferred upon II by the
late government and revoked the
authority to impose this police
force upon the organized provinces.
Canada, In word. has reacted tc
her American environment.
q. 8. IDEALS IN CANADA.
So strongly Is Canadian senti
ment permeated by American ideals
In contradiction to European ideals
that in the official note Of instruc-
tions to Canada's delegates TO he
Genoa conference the government
of Ottawa laid down the lire Of
cleavage between the British en-
pire delegation and that Of the DO
minion:
I'VE tthe government feel that
you should not actively intervene
in questions that are OF purely
European concern, but that you
should interest yourselves In such
questions as are Of economic con-
Germ TO Canada" -
Apart from the economic neces-
sity that compels Canada to re-
trench. the debates in the House
at Ottawa recently clearly empha-
size the return, Of Canada to nor
NAL. nonmilitary activities and
her. strong reaction to the Ameri-
can position of noninterventlon in
European politics. In, this the
new government. backed by the
new House OF Commons. reflects
the country at large,
To appreciate the position Can
ada has taken. II is necessary to
understand the British imperial
point Of view. voiced BY the former
premier, Arthur Meighan. when he
asked the present prime minister,
/ Mackenzie King:
\ How win the prime minister
feel when he stands before the