Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-05
ENGLAND AWAITING
COOLIDGE POLICIES
Attitude Toward Problems of
World Subject Of Brit
iSh Queries.
BY Cable to The Star and New York Tribune
Copyright, 1928.

By Cable to The star and New York Tribune
Copyright, 1928.
LONDON, August At would
scarcely be an eXaggeration TO say
that the British people are as inter
osted today as are native Americans
themselves in the death Of President
Harding and the succession of Calvin
Coolidge to the presidency. All the
newspapers are printing columns
upon columns of admiration for Mr..
Harding.
While there is growing belief
here that Europes problem cannot
be solved finally until the United
States takes d hand therein, British
observers recognize that the change
or Presidents injects q new element
into American political life which
may result in the most important
reaction or development in the United
states foreign policy. Accordingly.
there is an effort here to size IN the
new situation in the United States.
always from the angle Of the chances
participation in the affairs Of Europe.
Keynote BY London Times.
All appropriations voiced about
President Harding stress the fact
that he died at a moment when the
relations Of the United States TO the
world at large was being put into
new, more acute form: also at a mo
ment when there was a rapidly grow
ing reaction between American do
mestic and foreign politics. This T.
the keynote, by The London Times
which says:
The shock of President Harding
death will awaken new interest IL
those problems the great American
republic is trying to solve, for its
own sake and with dim sense o.
what the solution may mean in
great crisis to modern civilization.
Observers here lament the death of
President Harding at a time when his
own political development had taken
most interesting turn, from Brit
ish point of view. The question is
asked whether Mr.. Coolidge, since his
election as Vice President, has been
drawn by the force Of events equally
far toward European politics. which
both he and his predecessor had been
elected to oppose.
While there is hope that President
Coolidge will proceed further along
lines on which President Harding
seemed to be advancing, editorial
writers do not encourage optimism,
while Washington correspondents
strike an equal note of caution.
Coolidge Declaration
President Coolidge's declaration
that he intends to carry out the poll
cies of his predecessor excited appre
ciative comment here.
While Mr.. Harding's advocacy of
world court was considered as imply
ing his conviction that the United
States never again could become
really isolated. President Coolidge Is
credited by at least one Washington
correspondent as being an isolation
| list to the extent of deprecatinG
Americas participation in a world
| court.
Even IL Mr.. Coolidge shares Mr..
Harding's views on this and similar
problems. It is a question here
whether, in the circumstances. he will
| prove a strong enough partisan of
! them. The internal struggle expected
in the republican party is given full
weight here.
| One commentator says:
The United States in all proba-
bility will become more widely sep
arated from Europe in the next few
months to come than at any other
period in the last year"
The generally shared view here Is
that American cooperation in the
solution of the European tangle will
be subordinated strictly TO American
domestic affairs.