The Washington times., 1923-10-30
SCORNS.
HELPFUL HAND
OF U.S..
McC ormick's Outbreak Seen
az Understanding Of Feel
ing Of Continent.
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statement this morning. 1t is
noted further that Mccormick has
known France since boyhood, and
has visited Franco recently much
oftener than any other American
statesmen, and II perhaps the only
American who ever addressed a
and of French deputies in the
He is totally familiar with the
French mind, and he il profound.
Iy interested In the restoration Of
European prosperity for the bene-
fit Of his graln-Gxporting cOnstt.
tuents in Illinois, and It is conf
IDENTIFY understood that he never
would have leveled at the French
government his today's explosive
volley Of reproach and febuke if a
chance remained that the French
government would be conciliated.
Ordinary Frenchnlan's View.
It may be further conscientiousIy
and conservatively affirmed that
according to virtually all our re.
turned Washington observers who
have taken the trouble to dip down
into the depths Of the ordinary Life
Of ordinary people in France Lhe
following situation IL revealed:
In proportion a. the American
Government proceeds toward help
ing" Europe by offering to help"
to calculate Germany's "capackiy to
pay" in the proportion. precisely.
the French people increasingly
stubbornly detest the ideas Of the
people Of the United States.
The deepest fact TODAY In the in.
ternational relations which center
at Washington 10 that the Illusion
Of being thought helpful to all
Europe Is dissipated. Today by
Britain we are thought helpful, but
by France we are thought hurtful:
and the time is not distant. in the
Judgment OF many good observers,
able" az Senator Hiram johnson,
and will cordially agree with him
that the less the United States does
in Europe the better.
In these circumstances Senator
Mccormick has taken position
which he has maintained at the
White House in personal converse
tions with President Coolidge as
well as In his today's public utter
ances.
IrrecOncilabIes' Wishes.
He holds and says that the deli.
cate negotiations which presently
will be conducted in Europe by
Americans shah not be in the hands
CT "Laodicean Leaguers," or of
'LOtophagoi''; and there Ii reason
to believe that the Administered ton,
after full inquiry into the meanings
of those words, has given Senator
Mccormick a considerable basis for
the hope that in this respect his
wishes, and the similar wishes Of
all the ''irreconciIabIes," will he
thoughtfully considered and at least
in part granted.
A "Laodicean Lacquer" II was
gathered today from Senator Nc
Cormick after he had issued his
statement. 10 not like an honest
open Lacquer. A Laodi C n
along with the Harding and Cool
idge anti-League administration but
who would sneak into a train for
Geneva II you took your eyes off
him.
'Lotophagoi" are robust American
citizens who set into the diplomatic
service and start drinking tea and
eating macaroons and presently &C.
quire such an awe Of foreigners
that they are afraid to tell them on
the first Of the month that they still
owe us that money.
Mccormick, it seems, wants cir
reconcilables" and bill collectors In
our coming dealings with Europe;
and it can be absolutely safely pre-
dicted that in time he is going to
get some people of that sort thera;
and then all the more, since France
will not or cannot pay her debt to
US, the true nature of our present
diplomatic drift will emerge. 1t takes
use inevitably, In company with
Britain, toward the same strained
relations with France that Britain
now has.
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