Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-31
Ever Ready to Help in
Real Time Of Need
Says Hughes
Secretary of State Reviews
Achievements of Harding
Administration in Boston
Address-Declares EurOpe's
Main Trouble in Inability of
Great Powers to Agree on
Distinctly European Cues
tons

Boston, Mass, Oct. 30.-A foreign
policy of helpfulness and good I'M
Outstanding, without entanglenents
which would fetter American in
! dependence. was outlined by Score
tary Hughes of the State Department
| in an address in Symphony Hall to-
night reviewing the record of the
| Harding administration in. the field
of international relations.
| BY the lead it took in the aims
! conference. the Secretary said, and
! by its efforts toward harmony among
I the nations of the Western Hem
| isphere, the American government
! during the past twenty months has
set a record of accomplishment far
! beyond what was expected of it when
| the new administration came into
! power.
SO far as Europe is concerned, Mr..
/ Hughes declared, President Harding
| and his advisers always have been
! ready to lend a helping hand where
! it would do the most good, but are
not willing to fritter away the in
fluence of the United States bv in
tervention in controversies that are
rooted in age-old national rivalres.
THE chief trouble at this time in
Europe, "he continued" is that the
great powers have not been able to
| agree as to questions which, being
! distinctly European questions direct
ly concern them, and their want of
agreement is due to different con-
| ceptions of essential national policy.
For US, international cooperation
| does not mean that we should en-
| broil ourselves in controversies not
involving our own interests"
The secretary added that he
| believed way might be found
| for the United States to par
ticipate formally in the selection
| of judges to the recently organized
, International Court of Justice, a
, project which from the first had had
! the sympathy of this government.
! He declared that already in a human
! itarian way and through the channels
of trade the United States was really
| giving aid of value incalculable.
| He praised the arms conference
agreements as meaning 'the rescue
! of the world from despair" and pre-
dicted that despite the present delay
| the Washington treaties would be
ratified by all the powers signatory
| to them. Ultimate failure of the con-
! ference program, he asserted, had
| been precluded in any case by the
| notifications already voted by the
United States, Great Britain and
Japan.
! Among the other accomplishments
| reviewed by Mr.. Hughes as part of
| the constructive program of the
administration were the negotiation
! of a peace treaty with Germany the
, zap agreement protecting American
! interests in the mandate islands of
! the Pacific, the reorganization of
Cuba's finances, the Tacna AFRICA
arbitration agreement between Chile
and Peru, the calling of a conference
| here Of Central American republics,
and the sterilization of Haiti and
Santo Domingo.
Toward the people of Mexico, the
Secretary said, the United States en-
| tertains only the friendliest scnti-
ments although it is unwilling to
| recognize any Mexican internal policy
based upon confiscatory measures
against foreigners. He alluded also
to the Near Eastern situation, re-
peating the declaration that the
American government, although in
terested deeply in some phases of
the Near Eastern settlement, cannot
appropriately attend the Lausanne
peace conference because it was called
to settle a war to which the United
States was not A party.
Secretary Hughes began his ad-
dress with eulogy to Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, chairman of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations and Re-
! publican leader of the Senate. Mr..
Lodges defeat by his Massachusetts
constituency at the November cleo
ton. the Secretary declared, would
| be not only loss to the state but
IAN irreparable loss to the nation"
In his discussion of the policies of
the administration, Mr.. Hughes said /:
"Of course, there have been differ
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