The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-11
EUROPE KNOWS
BUT LITTLE
OF.U. 8.
Profound ignorance of condi-
tions Here Noted by Trav-
eIers, Says Hard.
Bv WILLIAM HARD.

Inc europeans axe much ISSS
interested in US than we are in
them. American statesmen go to
Europe to study the woes of
Europe, but European statesmen
come to America only to ask US
to study the woes of Europe some
more. We now have a lot of
woes of our own and we demand
reciprocity.
Such are the wounded feelings
experienced and expressed by
Washington as it. now contem-
plates the flocks Of American OFF,
Gals on their way to Europe and
on their way back from Europe,
while simultaneously it hears
that Magnus Johnson, "the bu-
collie bolshevik," may get elected
to the United States Senate by
our indignant and bankrupted
Northwestern wheat farmers
whom no. European statesman
ever rescues.
Are Observing Abroad.
E. G. Montgomery, of our Depart
ment of Commerce, is headed toward
Europe to begin a study OF the Eu-
ropean agricultural situation. c. J.
Brand, of our Department Of Agri-
culture, has just returned from Eu-
rope after completing a study of the
European agricultural situation.
Commissioner Huston Thompson, OF
the Federal Trade Commission, is in
Europe now in a deep study of Eu-
ropean cooperative developments in
agriculture and in business.
A score of other officials of high
station in our executive departments
are likewise in Europe or just re-
turning from it OF just starting to-
ward 1t on trips of special inquiry.
Meanwhile, at least twice that
number of United States Senators
and Of members Of the House of
Representatives are travelling in Eu-
rope this summer at their own ex-
pense to fit themselves to vote with
better information and with more
intelligence on affairs having a Eu-
ropean aspect.
No such visitations of the United
States by foreign statesmen are ap-
parent, either from the standpoint
Of number or from the standpoint of
purpose.
The fact is now getting borne in
Oh IN no ID
only scantily interested in Ameri-
can affairs.
The only European newspapers
maintaining representatives of their
own in the press gallery in Wash
ington are the following:
The Times of London, the West
Gazette of London, the
Post of London, the Echo
of Paris, the Tageblatt Of Berlin.
No American news Of any conse-
quence ever in general reaches the
mass of Europeans except in so far
as it touches the question OF Amer
lean policy toward Europe.
Little News For Europe.
Every night the number of words
coming on the cables from Europe
to American newspapers is many
times the number Of words going
on them from the United States
to European newspapers.
Our returned officials are amazed
once more to be able to read so
much about Europe In America
when they were able to read so
little about America in Europe.
1T is Europe" they now declare.
hof io
ZIONIST"
They expand this statement by
saying:
"The United States is isolated
politically but Europe is isolated
mentally 1t talks about a broader
horizon for America. 1t says that
America ought to take world view.
1T means that America should
know more about Europe. 1t has
no intention in mass of
broadening it's own horizon by learn
ing more about America or of taking
a world view by becoming familiar
with American developments within
America"
Reports of Visitors.
In confirmation of this conclu.
sion our returned observers call
attention to the contrast they nave
noted between the reports of Amer
lean statesmen on their travels in
Europe and the reports of European
statesmen on their travels in
America.
Senator Brookhart," they say,
"goes to the Scandinavian countries
and jubilantly announces great dis
coveries of great lessons to be
learned from the Scandinavian CO.
operative societies.
Senator Underwood goes to the
Rhine and returns and says that
we absolutely must think out some
way of rescuing the Ruhr from war
and of returning it to peace and
prosperity
European statesmen come to
America and go to lar~e eatings
and speakings and return to Eu-
rope and issue long statements vir-
tuallv never on anything inside
America but almost always exclu-
sivelv on Americas outside exter-
nal policy toward Europe itself.
"Our northwestern wheat farmers
are ruined because in order to feed
Europe during the war and inn
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