Evening star., 1926-08-22

r.r.,.+io, of an American purpose to dominate
the world. We have financial supreme ,t,
hold the great powers of Europe III oui -.
for vast sums We refuse to cancel these oeo'
incurred in a common war and we uei,'"u
nayment on terms which all Europe resaruo %
Shvlockian And we seem to insist upon 'iie
right to make terms on the basis o. Mla' O
for these debtor nations domestic alIaHs'
How many times in how many ways h">0
American public men and American newspapers
announced that one set of terms 1of uepl SCI
tement should be granted to militarlstlc France
and another to pacifist France! LII the op
Senate of the United States it has peen ai isueu
that terms which seem to Italy usurlouS' po'
to us lenient, should not be accepted because
Italy has dictator instead of president anu
q muzzed instead Of free press
AS for the British every time the debt ques-
ton crops up there is renewal OF the susses
tons that in lieu of payment we take the West
Indies even Canada. Now at the present til,'e
there is no single problem more annoying 10 the
British than that of Canada, and you nave ohiH
to look at British magazines ana newspapers
to see how deep is the apprehension lest Cahaoa
be lost how profound is the resentment at 'hp
extent to which Canada has already ecohom-
cay and socially, if not pol1tlcallE paSseo i'''o
the American orbit.
1t is true that there is not a handful OF
Americans and American public man OF
prominence advocating the annexation OIL Iah-
ada or even its amalgamaton with the nlteu
States but there are many thousands OF Brltons
of serious Importance who see behlnd Amerl-
can policy and the American attitude in the
debt and other matters the deliberate pur-
pose to take the Dominion of Canada and 10
expel British sovereignty from the Western
Hemisphere. And the growing sense OF this
American menace finds increasing expression
in British public and private comment.
1t is not the mannered tourists who rasp
sensitive European nerves. 1t is not even the
debt question and prosperity which explain
European distrust and dislike for US. 1t is
something far more vital. 1t is the fact that
there has grown up in Europe the well-nigh
universal conviction that we are out to domi-
nate France is not for sale writes NJ.
Clemenceau to President Coolidge. Why? Be
cause NJ. Clemenceau, like many other eminent
Frenchmen. believes, as result of recent his
tory, that the United States is seeking to I'M
pair the independence and modify the terri
torial integrity of France.
To Europeans, and l say this deliberately
there seems to be great and growing feeling,
on this side Of the Atlantic, of America ''uber
alles,' in the strictest Potsdam sense That
most OF these ebullitions of our press and pub
lie men have no solid foundation, that they rep
resent individual group opinions, that they
are naive not natiOnalistC. moral not impe-
rialistc. that is something of which it is quite
impossible to convince a European audience,
impossible because along with all else goes the
inescapabe fact that we have strength, that
we have power, that we have wealth.
Again. no should mistake the fact that
there Is no considerable European credence for
American dealism. There was once, before the
collapse of Wilson. the return to isolation and
the affirmation of the validity of the debt con-
tract. Now Europe as whole. believes that
while profess moral reasons for our solici-
tude about European conditions these profes-
sions are but hypocritcal disguses for
wholly materialistic purpose. We say that the
reason insist upon debt settlements is that
we must defend the sanctity of international
contracts. but to Europe it merely seems that
we want the money, both for itself and for the
power it gives debtors.
1t is, of course. simple fact that the
Of the American people have no desire to in
terfere in Europe. not the smallest wish to in
wade the sovereignty of France, to regulate
the domestic affairs of Italy, to NEEDLE with
the colonial problems of Britain. But not day
passes that the European press is not filled
with accounts of the comments of some Ameri-
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