The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25
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lawrence Sees Impetus
for More international
Cooperation.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

\ iCopyright, 1922, by The ArgusO
Washington, March 25.-Ratifica-
1 ion of the four-power treaty abol-
I 1Isbiug the Anglo-Japense alliance
4 al the one hand and formally plac-
4 Ing the United States in the Pacific
! league of Nations has given decid-
+ ed impetus to the growing move
i ment for more international coop
eration instead of national isolation.
The group in the American sem
ate which has insisted that the
4 United States could get along with
4 outout political involvement with
other nations was found to be less
I than one-third, so that President
4 Harding now can count upon a
/ txo-thirds vote in any proposals he
may make for closer understanding
/ with other nations.
The four-power treaty vote is q
4 biz precedent. Democrats and Re-
publicans who voted for it cannot
consistently change their positions
when Mr.. Harding, for example,
I proposes that the United States be-
come a member of the reparations
commission to safeguard American
rights in Europe. The vote in fav-
or of American cooperation in
questions arising seven thousand
miles away from our coast line is
considered ample justification for
q similar vote in favor of coopera-
4 ton in maintaining American
rights three thousand miles from
4 the other coast line.
League Friends Happy.
Friends of the League of Nations
Plainly are happy over the result.
lhey see the Harding administra-
zion going through process of ev-
|aution on foreign policy which
/ Ell lead to bigger and broader in
*krnat;onal action While it is true,
3ior instance, that the United States
Hound fault with the program of the
8 Genoa economic and financial con-
4 slarence. declaring that some of the
{ TENS in it were political instead of
Economic, the fact is the American
government didn't want to go to
Genoa until it had demonstrated to
he world that the treaties negotiat-
E q at the Washington arms confer
slce could be ratified. Another
4 ambition of senate resistance to q
reaty signed by an American
4 chef executive was feared, and ad-
/ Illustration officials used almost
the same language in referring to
such possible consequence as did
Woodrow Wilson after he came
back from Paris. There are Re
Mblicans and Democrats today
Who somehow feel that America has
indicated herself before the world
IN standing by a contract made by
! me constitutional executive. To
ihab extent they admit that the
senate performance after the Yer
ailles treaty while technically con-
sttutional and perhaps thoroughly
Understood in America was morally
embarrassing to American influ-
ence and is still the subject of much
nl-feeling in Europe where the al
nance made on April Z, 1917, be-
Neen the United States and the al
! ted powers was welcomed as a de-
parture from American traditional
policy Of no alliances with Eu-
rope.
Compare Versailles Pact.
Although the senate has adopted
! reservation proposed by Senator
5randegee, stating that the four
poWer pact is rot an alliance and
aoes not commit the United States
/ armed force. there are few DEM
&rats who believe the League of
Nations was q commitment to arm,
action. They think 1T was just
flexible and gave as much free
som OF action as the four-power
pact.
indeed, Democratic support of
ne fourpower treaty was based
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