The daily times., 1922-01-21
AMERICA |SFRANK
IN HER DEALINGS
WITH THE NATIONS
NO SECRET STRATEGY
America Sees the Necessity for
Economic Reconstruction i'm
Europe, and the Question is
Whether This Country Will
Enter Another Conference,
The Genoa Meeting.
D SECRET STRATEGY
(By David Lawrence
Copyright, 1922, by The Daily

[ I1m0S.)
! Washington, Jan. 2O.-The inter-
national situation grows more COM
plicated for the United States. Hard
ly Cabinet meeting passes without
some discussion of the grave effects
which an unstable Europe is having
upon the admitted need of markets
abroad for the farmers and producers
! of America. The intrigues of Euro
ipean diplomacy reach into the heart
,, of the Washington conference itself
where if the truth be told the disillu-
I, sionment of American officials as to
the possibility of making Europe see
things from broad and disinterested
viewpoint has been complete.
The British have taken a far-seeing
attitude but they too are enmeshed
in controversies with France and
continental powers which do not per-
nit of as friendly viewpoint toward
China as might be desirable. The
results of the Washington confer
ence cannot even now be estimated
Some observers are growing dis
hearted and pessimistic Some be-
lieve much has been ACCOMPLISHED
and that the conference is a tremend-
GUS success. 1t all depends upon what
ones expectations were. The texts
of the treaties are not yet comlete
Until they are disclosed and analyz-
Ic f,r%s1 II
for they must be viewed in their en-
tirety. When all is said and done they
will represent only the amount of
progress which has been made since
1919 in pairing down selfish nation
alism. The United States entered the
Washington conference as it did the
Paris conference with unselfish puZ-
poses and clean hands and come out
the same way. 1t will always be
matter of debate whether more could
have been accomplished by this or
that maneuver or strategy but the
prevalent feeling is that the Amer
lean delegation again showed the
world that unskilled as the diplomats
of the United States may be in the
tricks of bargaining, mistaken as
they may have been to deal with all
the cards face up, the course they
adopted for themselves will bear the
scrutiny of history and the fault for
the lack of achievement will not be
difficult to locate.
But as the maelstrom of proposals
and debates keeps the government
here on the anxious seat for with
the conclusion of the conference
another fight begins for ratification
by the Senate, the Cabinet is plainly
anxious to see something done in
Europe to pave the way for economic
reconstruction. Not a word has been
said or will be said for some time |
about the invitation to the United
States to attend the Genoa confer
ernmental transition. There is no !
disposition to hurry matters. The /
new Poincare ministry in France
must have time to get it's bearings i
sailles treaty turns out to be the
real purpose of France, if it means
the military occupation of more ter
ritory on the Rhine, the United
States will not stand by silently and
permit the American attitude to be
construed as passively affirmative.
American troops still remain on
the Rhine as the embodiment of !,
allied unity and as the index of our
moral sympathy with the general
principle that Germany must fulfill
her treaty obligations. For even
though the United States didn't rat.
ify the Versailles treaty, the main
clauses about reparations are incor-
porated in the treaty of peace be-
tween Germany and the United
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