Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18

! Newspaper comment on Secretary
| Kellogg's statement dealing with
bolshevist influences in Mexico in con
! nection with his explanation of the
policy of the United States toward
| Nicaragua is remarkable for its wide
and very emphatic differences of Opin
ion. Here are two typical sentences
| illustrating respective viewpoints:
Secretary Kellogg's disclosures
have convinced almost everybody but
Senator Borah, who always proceeds
| on the assumption that his own coun
try must be wrong in its foreign poi
icy. He is likely To he left standing
alone. San Francisco Bulletin lin
dependency.
Elaborate parade of danger that
would not scare toothless old
woman. - Baltimore sun dndepend-
enU.
With the assumption that the Dol
SheviSts are "a diScredited and hope
less lot the New York Times Qnde-
pendent Democratic remarks that lit
Is this well known fact which makes
ii seem not little humiliating that
the Government of the United
States. with all it's strength. with all
the evidence it has of convinced an
ti-bolshevist sentiment among all but
citizens. should attempt To. Justify
what it has done in Nicaragua
and its suspicious attitude toward
Mexico. by admitting that it
stands in dread of the hand of Soviet
Russia reaching across the ocean and
striving to clutch Mexico and the
Central American republics
IF bolshevism in Mexico is the rea
son why we have taken armed posses
sion of Nicaragua" asks the Louis
willie Courier-Journal Democratic).
lis it not better reason why we
should have taken armed possession
of Mexico? and the Newark Eve
ming News independently satirically
suggests that instead of landing
handful of Marines in Mica
ragua and sending a lot of gunbOats
to the adjacent waters, the Army and
Navy should he modified Immediately
for a campaign against Russia.
Let us have a worthwhile war that
will deliver our terrified Secretary of
State from the fears that are petrify
ing him."
"And here we are, poor little Amer
leans" says the Portland Oregon
Journal independently, about to be
swallowed up by the great red
peril. Here we are. haunted by
day and by night by the grim,
red shadow, reflected on the skies
Of Mexico. Perhaps we should all
run hurriedly to our cyclone eel
lars lest the COLLINS get us before
dawn" The Des MOines Tribune lin
dependent Republican, asserts tina
1.-The plain fact is that America is not
in the least scared about that old
bogy, the red, worldwide revolution.
That old bogy IL dead as a door nail.
The United States is in about as much
danger from 1t as the planet Jupiter
III communist activity in Central
America is to he cited In Justification
of our course in Nicaragua" remarks
the New York Evening Post dnde.
pendGnt), "a closer connection must
be shown between this activity and
the Sacasa movement than has yet
been exhibited. Secretary Kellogg
cannot seriously argue that a general
intention on the part of the bolshevist
leaders to win the United States
some time, somehow. warrants our
intervening In specific difficulty in
@ Central American country in which
the issue of bolshevism is not con.
cerned."
Some of the other comments on this
point are: There Is plenty of evil
dence In the Kellogg statement that
the real source of communist propa
ganda in Mexico is not Moscow. hut
the United States. "--Brooklyn Daily
| Eagle dndeendent Democratic)
Secretary keflogg talks as though