Evening star., 1924-12-17
Delay on Protocol in Europe
Viewed as Overture to i. S.

adopted that the Benes plan is provo
cative of war rather than an aid to
peace There can hardly be any Ques-
tion that the British dominions have
informed Downing street that they
cannot assent to any such principle
as the Benes plan stipulates, namely
the intrusion of foreign nations into
the domestic affairs of & country
Holding similar opinion. the Cieve-
land Plain Dealer declares further
''It Is certain that the Baldwin gov
ernm ent does not care TO accept un-
modified or unconsidered the MacDon-
aid proffer OF the British navy tc
Coerce the states which may prove
recaicitrant in the matter of accept
ing arbitration. And it Is possible
that the British government means
just what IL says. 20 wit, that 1t Is
not taking a stand In opposition to
the protocol but is merely waiting
to give the matter careful consid-
Grafton and to form a policy of It's
own instead of biindiy accepting the
| policy of it's predecessor"
~ y n "
The action upon the embattled pro-
| tocol seems to the New Orleans Times
Picayune Fat this time and dis
tance, to be first step toward repair
of the biunder committed at Geneva
under Japanese pressure. American
| friends of the league in great ma
jority will approve the British action
Extension Of the league powers to
include invasion over the rights OF
each nation to regulate its own i'm
migration must have operated as a
permanent bar TO American member
ship, for this republic cannot sur
render its right, never before chal-
ienged, to frame Its own immigration
| laws for It's own safety and welfare
| Without the support or the two most
| Important world powers, the United
| States and Great Britain, the st. Paul
Dispatch points out "the protocol is
valueless. It 10, In effect, scrapped
because those states which adhere to
| 1t, IL any, will, In effect, be in al
lance against the United States and
Great Britain. The probability is that
1t will die natural and merited
death"
Suggesting that the situation has
many other angles aside from Amer.
ican sensttiveness on the question oi
the league and regarding the proto-
col,'' the Hartford Times believes
| progress has been made in securing
the tentative adoption of a protocol
Even IL the present plan should be
scrapped, the idea OF comforting upon
disarmament will not be abandoned
Eventually there will be such con-
ference. II Is possible that delay may
produce better plan of framework
than the tentative protocol as well
as a better chance for success wher
the delegates ultimately sit around
the table. There is seldom any loss
in proceeding slowly and with eau.
tion In matters of grave Importance.
The New York Evening World agree,
that should this particular plar
prove unacceptable the fact remain,
that the worldwide organization
embracing most OF the nations OF the
earth, has, prepared q plan; that II
thfs one falls, this same world or.
ganization is in a position to func-
tion speedily in the adoption OF
another" The world that longs fol
this kind OF progress toward peace
observes the Brooklyn Eagle, ''neet
not feel discouraged over this actor
on the part of Great Britain, ever
IL Il does mean a desire on the par
of the Baldwin government TO pass
| the responsibility for the calling o,
a further disarmament conferencs
over to the United States. It may
find President Coolidge eagerly will.
] ing to assume that responsibility"