Evening star., 1924-11-09
BY OLIVER OWEN KCHN

Y YHEN the American people
IA ! went to the polls last Tues
| " " day the world was watch
| When the American people
with crashing might, registered their
VIII against far-fetched and fanciful po-
| llt1cal nostrums conconcted by radi-
| cal elements, peoples of the larger
nations in Europe sighed with relief.
| England already had cast out those
| suspected of social and political
money-chan ging in the conservative
| temple. America did not even let
| them in.
In England the American election
was hailed as a sign of conservatism
| sustained, as conservatism was re-
deemed a few days previously in
| Britain. 1t meant closer working ar
! rangements between the two great
powers, constructive and forward
| looking. In France, where a Socialis-
| tic government prevails, the Ameri-
can decision to have nothing of So
cialism or any of it's varying ingre-
! dients was hailed by the Poincare-
Millerand school of Nationalists as
about the downfall of Herriot's
| regime and the recovery of power
In Italy, where domestic questions
overshadowed interest otherwise
there was a feeling that Italy could
not expect to obtain moderation in
so-called drastic American immigra-
ton laws. But in Fascist circles
where 1t long has been maintained
| that only in the firmest sort of gov
eminent can radicalism and it's dan
gerous currents be combatted, there
was relief that America had turned
| her back on the tides of dsintegra ton.
| In Japan, likewise, there was a sense
| of relief that American conservatism
| would continue to ride in the saddle
| and the lessons to be obtained from
| the American election might well be
| permitted to permeate Japan where
the ultra radical elements have been
! making progress against the govern
| ment. In all other nations, liking or
dlsilking America, there was over
whelming sentiment that the Ameri-
can people, already swaying financial
and social advance, had raised higher
the torch of sanity and would more
| firmly lead the way along the path
ways to prudent government, nation
ally and internationally speaking.
Inroads Of Radicalisuu,
Throughout the world the inroads
| of radicalism have been growing
Even the remotest sections of the
| world have been victims of the apos-
] ties of Lenin and Trotsky. Ferment
| has increased since the bolshevists
gained power and Moscow set about
| the self-appointed task of governing
| the world to Soviet ideas. Insidious
| have been beguilements and the un-
sophisticated of many lands ever have
been willing to follow. AS various
| Government departments know
there being countless thousands of
documents in Washington to be cit
ed as proof of the contention, the
bolshevists have been extremely ac-
| tive in the United States. Strange as
it may seem, it was believed in the
red headquarters of foreign lands
| that revolution was at hand in
America Possibly paid proselytes in
America had been too sanguine in
reports. Possibly this optimism was
but sap that further direct appro-
| priations might be forthcoming for
the cause. 1t is known that the reds
of other nations gained sustaining
faith through reports that America
was going red. Even larger Euro
pean governments have privately ex-
pressed misgivings as to the trends
of democratic government in America
But America last Tuesday spoke,
and with clarion tones to be heard
even in the inner council chamber of
Moscow. The reply to the misrep-
lresentations of Soviet agents in Amer
lea was complete. The leaders of
Russia had been humbugged
America was not only not ripe for
Soviet revolution, but America could
be counted upon, when aroused, to
plant its heel squarely upon the So
Wet serpent
Trotsky and tho commissariat in