Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-05
EUROPE SEES AMERICA
AS SEEKING WORLD RULE
Continent Pictured as Believing L. S.
Deliberately Plans Conquest-Debt
and Naval Policies Cited.

question the magnitude Of American
contribution to the decision, after ve
entered the war but what IS believed
is that Germany would have wou -
l9l4-i9i7. while We we're neutral. out
for the British feet
When. at Washington We asserted
and established our right 10 parity in
the battlefield, Europe vas startled At
the Washington Conference it had ex-
pected 70 see the United States faced
and outfaced BY an Ang!o-Japanese
combination. Before the conference
Europe had talked very wisely Of an
which would so cripple Us that our sea
challenge TO the British would disa2-
pear automatically.
When az Washington We obtained
from the British. first. the dissolution
OF the Anglo-Japanese alliance and
then parity in the ba,tle-line, Europe
received shock from which i. has
never wholly recovered. From thai
hour dates the steadily growing CONT
mental belief in the decline OF Great
Britain as world power. as the great
world power. And. quite obviouslr. the
United States was presented as delIbAr-
ate!y responsible for this fact.
Recent Naval Farley.
When President Coolidge called the
naval conference which assembled n
Geneva last Summer the proceedings
OF that meeting, which we're interpreted
ior the Continent b. the British press.
mad the character OF a demand for
actual supremacy covered by an a-e11-
nent Tor spacious parity When. after
the failure OF the conference. We an
nolncec our program for naval expa1-
sion. It's magnitude and propose,. ex-
penditure fairly tcok European breath
away. Moreover, II vas instantly ac-
cepted as the final demonstration that
We were seeking naval supremacy, that
ne NAG been deliberately seeking il from
the Washington Conference onward
ana that We we're now going 20 realize
our ambition
The third major circumstance OF
what Europe regards as our imperialism
IS our alleged purpose 70 dominate the
American continents
To understand this phase OF Eu-
Eopean thought. It IS essential 20 know
that az all times the Kellogg BRAND
conversations over the famous project
70 outlaw war were invariably 5racke.s6
n European press comment with ou-
military operations IN Nicaragua. Thus
the American gesture. the proposal 10
expand the BRAND formula mo gen
eral remuneration Of war vas interpreted
as moral cloak toE our military
actilns
Bur far more important II European
eyes were the reservations we SougGT 20
append 10 the specific arbitration pacs
With France. and particularly those
reservations which concerned the MoE-
roe Doctrine. These q the European
mind. disclosed the deliberate purpose
70 reserve for ourselves without a1y
possible limitation osyond any Coz
ceivaels Interference. tie whole South
American and Central American region
as the field for our territorial ar6
economic imperialism
See Designs in Mexico.
What Es have been doing n Haiti.
IN Nicaragua. II Panama IS explained
IN Europe As wholly analogous 20 vh2s
Britain has done u the Mediterranean
Our purpose 70 hold TIE Caribbean
seems 10 mere than : repetition Q. The
policy By which the British acquired
Gibraltar. Malta and Cyprus We
assert mastery a. tie 2S-hnuS as S-ZE-
ain has asserted control >. Sues.
Panama IS our Egypt Al this s Simply
the disclosure tbs, for US the Panama
Canal s wha. the S-ex Cscsl Is tc-
British imperialism. the he A1s q
empire
But, >; the same time, watching o<iz
relations with MsXIco, E2rcrS has az
rived 81 the very definite colcspc2cl
that sooner Or later we mean 70 lay
hands or tk2, great country and. -
due course. Oh many o:9>sr saG1S
stretching GoTr2 - tie wiicer2sSSS> 60
the Aniaxoo 5; ssASt Moreover.
Panama with rs avsgUs wasca pro
v:de> TIE means ~ uniting cs2r Atlanta
snG Pacific rees> Assures Us when gSsr
May has 81 laSt been expanded - ne
limits ALREADY togeSSe0- mastery o. ne
Pacific rs well Acs We yscs. .essr>
planning a.So - replace SlrcCS -
Asia, II China EG4-cpS se.9Ss> Il
L, : Cls>ely Watched
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world power. ol.r Imperialism has cST1
revealed IN the MASTERS q finance.
naVssS sR6 Latin American eyS-SSsog.>.
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