The Washington herald., 1922-02-19

present in many other countries.
Until this process Is arrested real
economic recovery in the world Is
unlikely 1t can be arrested only
when the rights OF France are con-
sidered and the conditions of Ger
many are dealt with intelligently.
And when the time comes for dis
cussion of the fiscal question the
allied debts will have to be con-
sidered just as fully as German
separations.
Thus one can say quite frankly
that the Washington administra-
ton is in principle totally in SYM
pathy with the idea of an {nterna-
tIonal conference to- deal with eco
nomic questions. 1t is ready to
participate fully in such a confer
ence and to contribute up to the
limit to make 1t succeed. There is
not The smallest reluctance to shore
in such a conference growing out
of any traditional policy of isola-
ton or in fear of entanglements.
Consideration Lacking.
On the other hand. the United
States Government feels that it
was treated with singular lack of
consideration in the calling of the
Genoa conference. 1t regards this
lack of consideration as the more
surprising in view of the care
which it had recently taken in
seeking and finding out in advance
the wishes of those nations which
were invited to the Washington
conference. 1t is forced to believe
that the call for the Genoa confer
ence represented, as 1 have said,
an effort on the part of three prime
ministers, two of whom have since
fallen, to save their domestic stu
atoms by hastily summoning an
other conference in the hope that
while that conference was in pro-
gress they would continue to hold
office.
for this cal asked the opinion of
the United States they would have
been told perfectly frankly that the
United States government did not
feel that it could wisely partici-
pate in new international confer
ences until what had been gained
in the Washington conference had
been accepted by the United States
Senate and thus been translated
into permanent gain. They would
have been toll that the United
States government would find itself
seriously embarrassed IN sitting
down with Lenin apd Trotsky I'M
der the conditions proposed by the
agenda of the Genoa conference.
And they would have been told
further that the United States gov
eminent viewed the agenda both in
that and in other respects as too
vague, too extensive and generally
as unsatisfactory.
The opinion of the United States
was not asked. The call for the
Genoa conference was hastily is
sued after Washington had had its
first intimation through the cable.
In that situation the United States
hesitated to answer because it was
at one time eager to assist in pro-
noting economic recovery in the
world and wholly unwilling to run
the risks incident to immediate par
tfcipatlon in such conference.
state Changes Ended Dilemma.
Thus the change Of ministry in
France and the fall of the Bonomi
ministry in Italy, without being
perhaps welcome, did avail to res
cue the administration from an
awkward position in which, ftahed
been placed solely by the total lack
OF consideration shown II by the
three prime minister's who. at
Cannes. and for easons which are
quite patent. undertook to engineer
the Genoa conference.
II thes Is a Genoa conference be-
fore the traafies of Wa shinntou re
disposed of it is pretty safe fore
cast that the United States will not
attend a san active participant and