Evening star., 1925-11-08
CHANCE In i. S. FOREIGN
POLICY SEEN BY STRACHEY
Noted British Editor, Dinner Guest of
Coolidge, Predicts Less Isolation
After Visit in Capital.

too deep-rooted to make membership
practicable, there are alternatives
which would align the United States
as effectively with the allied and
associated peace forces Of the world
as If your delegates sat in Geneva.
The United States, for instance. might
issue an address to the world, re-
afhrming It's decade-old adherence to
the principles of arbitration. 1t might
set forth that in no circumstances
snort OF invasion or grave violation
or national honor would America re-
sort to the use of force. 1t might
| assert categorically that the United
states Is determined on all occasions
or international controversy to eX-
haust the means of arbitral settle
ment before resorting to the arbitra-
ment of war. Thus America would
be striking for the cause of peace
which is the Alpha and Omega Of the
League of Nations purposeS-as prac-
| tically beneficial a blow as If 1t had
pledged It's formal allegiance to the
covenant. Such a prOnounCement
would be an innovation in interna-
tional intercourse. But America, is
the land Of innovation"
What does Europe think Of Amer
| lea nowadays, anyhow" the British
editor was urged TO confess.
| See L. >. As Leader.
Il suppose the average non British
| European" he said, "envisages the
| United States as a tremendously rich
| country into whose purse he would
| jolly well like to dip-that is to sa,-
| upon whose vast resources in gold
| ne would like to have unlimited call.
| instead of being permitted free access
| to this unparalleled treasure, the aver
| age European Is shocked to find Amer
lea demanding that Europe repay
what Europe borrowed and thus in
crease the fabulous wealth America
| already has.
able to share European horror at
American insistence upon the funding
or her European debts. An English
man doesn't understand why there
should ever be any negotiation over
a debt. We either pay debt. or we
| don't pay 1t. We may not be able
at once, but we don't quite see that
1t is subject for negotiation 1t
never occurred to me to step up To
the desk Of my Washington hotel and
negotiate my bill for food and lodg-
ings. paid the bill. I had the
| value, and owed the money. When
| nations, like men, borrow money, they
do so with the intention, not of 'negoti-
| atlns over repayment, but of re-
| paying
| Mr.. Strachey thoroughly approves
as sound international policy the
Coolidge administrations embargo on
loans of additional American capital
10 countries which refrain from fund
ing existing Indebtedness II wish
| that the British government" the edi-
| tor explained, had attached to our
recent debt offer to France a con
dition that the French should cease TO
squander their substance on military
| adventures. We are told that France
| needs to finance certain small Euro
pean states in order that they may be-
| come suitable military allies and thus
insure French independence A ma
| tlon that is insolvent is not an inde-
| penoent nation. a nation that is
| spending millions of treasure on wars
IN morocco and Syria is, in my opinion,
| an untenable ground in seeking len
| iency from it's creditors. War is a
| luxury expenditure, which should be
forbidden to people who owe money"
Thinks Italy Will Be Aided.
Mr.. Strachey is confident that Italv
VIII secure generous debt settlement
I'm tIna ,ne ~ = nlted states. Such a ges-
lure on the part Of America" he said.
Will not fail to be understood in
Europe. 1t will be looked upon as
an unmistakable sign of America s
deep interest in the recovery of the
Oid World from the devastation of
the war and the delusions of the
peace"
The editor of the spectator is a hale
and vigorous journalistic veteran OF
90. A graduate of BallioI College
OXFORD, incubator of British statesmen.
Mr.. Strachey has adorned British let
ters uninterruptedly for Al years. He
has written half a dozen books on
economic and political subjects. Now
ne IS appearing as a novelist His
Madonna of the Barricades" was pub
hshed in New York just a month ago.
Mr.. Strachey visited Washington
previously in 1902, when he was en-
tertalned at the White House by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The British journal
list is immensely taken with the per
sonality of Calvin Coolidge and with
the Presidents grasp of world politics
what particularly appealed to the edi
tor of the Spectator-the "Thunderer,
or British periodical journalism-is the
unaffected charm of Mrs. Coolidge.
whom he calls "a great lady" and the
splendid dignity of the executive
mansion.
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