Evening star., 1927-05-27

1t looks very much as IL one Frank
Billings Kellogg were shortly going to
be able to chant II told you So" The
Secretary Of State, as all the world
knows, has been a persistent and con-
sistent opponent of recognizing Soviet
Russia because of Communist propa.
ganda in the United States-and
against the United States. When Kel-
logg successfully refused to permit
Countess Karolyi, Mr.. Saklatvala and
Nine. Kollontay to tarry on American
soil, President Coolidge's premier was
abused and ridiculed up hill and down
dale by persons who accused him Of
seeing red" without rhyme or reason.
Events in London strongly indicate
that the United States has been wiser
than it's European friends in stub
bornly ostra ciZing communism and all
it's works. If the State Department
makes public the chapter-and-verse
evidence Of red activities in North
and South America, which the British
are understood to have seized in their
raid Of Soviet headquarters in Lon.
don, some of the administrations crit
les are likely to take refuge in a dis
Greet silence. In boycotting Com
munist Russia, Messrs. Coolidge and
Kellogg stand precisely where Presi.
dents Wilson and Harding and Secre.
taries Lansing, Colby and Hughes
stood.
One Of the "best sellers" ever pub.
lished by Uncle Sam is a 75-page
booklet, entitled 'Trade Routes and
Shipping Services" now in circula.
ton all over the country and in many
parts of the world overseas. It's a
terse and timely history of the Ameri.
can merchant marine, and, in effect,
is what it's subtitle calls it-"A Call
to American Shippers" The principal
author Of the highly informative and
graphic log Of our mercantile sea
power is Gen. A. G. Dalton, president
of the Merchant Fleet Corporation.
Under Gen. Dalton's direction, the
booklet-a handsome production by
the Government Printing Office-haS
been distributed to those exporting in.
terests throughout the United States
upon whose patronage the United
States lines are mainly dependent.
Every possible bit of information
about the Nations shipping services
Is crammed between the covers OF
Dalton's masterpiece. It is difficult to
go through 1t without feeling pa
triotic pride in the present and future
of a merchant marine that once was
the peer Of any afioat. Gen. Dalton
thas been deluged with complimentary
| acknowledgements of his fine contribu-
| ton to the literature Of navigation.
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Ambassador Herrick Is coming in
| for a good deal Of credit in connection
with Capt. Lindbergh's tactful con.
quest of France. The American envoy
| at Paris had no orders from Washing
| ton to convert Lindbergh into an Of
| fetal guest of the United States in our
embassy mansion on Avenue d'Ileana
| Acting upon an initiative not common
under the messenger boy" system OF
modern diplomacy, Herrick took in
| the American boy who dropped out OF
| the clouds without waiting for State
Department o. K. It's hard to con-
ceive Of anything any American Am
| bassador anywhere could have done
| that would be more popular with the
| folks back home. Lindbergh is un'
mistakably person with an instinct
for doing the right thing. But it's not
| detracting from his splendid qualities
to suggest that Ambassador Herrick' s
| fatherly and adroit counsel has prob
ably played it's part in keeping the
young world hero from making what
the French call faux pas. Ever
since Herrick, in the dark days of Sep
tember, 1914, assured the French gov.
| ernment that the Stars and Stripes
would be kept flying in Paris. whether
| Won Kluck and his Germans came or
! not, the Ohioan has been a hero on
| the Seine himself. His faultless
chaperonage Of Lindbergh Is sure to