Evening star., 1928-09-16
NEW NOTE is PROJECTED
INU. S. FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Kellogg Anti-War Pact Declared to Mark
Death of Partisan Spirit in Amer
lean Foreign Relations.

| Democratic administration adopted the
policy of non-recognition and it has
been maintained by two succeeding Re-
| publican Presidents and their Secre-
taries of State.
PartiSanship Recent.
1t was the Treaty of Versailles in 1919
that uShered in the present era of
political consideration of foreign affairs
in America. The United States Sem
ate's hostility to President Wilson'S
peace policies in general and the
League of Nations in particular set
alight a fire of partisan treatment
of our international relations, which
flares up periodically nowadays. Exist
ing Democratic opposition to the Cool
idge administrations Latin American
policy is a product Of the system then
inaugurated. Mr.. Kellogg went through
the league fight as a member OF the
Senate foreign relations committee. He
was mild reServationiSt," /. e., one
, OF the minority Republican group which
favored American entry into the League
on terms which Woodrow Wilson, his
heart Stubbornly set on the covenant
without amendment, refused to accept.
Perhaps the present Secretary of State,
mindful of the resultant effect upon
American prestige abroad, would like
to inaugurate a system of American
diplomacy which would end once for all
the policy of playing politics" with for
eign affairs.
There is hardly an important foreign
country which does not habitually pur-
sue straight line in international af-
fairs, regardless of which political
party may be in Office. Great Britain
is the best case in point. Conserva-
tive and Liberal governments, and now
and then even a Labor government,
come and go, but Downing Street goes
on forever-goeS on playing John Bulls
restless game of conserving and ag-
grandiZing British world power. Not
even the personnel of the London for
eign office, with its famous staff of
permanent officials" Is ever changed.
The French, though they swap prime
ministers and foreign secretaries fifty
times a decade, adhere inviolably to
their bedrock foreign policy of making
themselves secure on Frances eastern
frontier (the Rhine) through a system
of defensive continental alliances and
developing the French colonial empire
in Africa. French domestic politics,
which is far more bitter than our own,
is never permitted to interfere with the
major motives of French foreign policy.
OOfACV AeuooAd hCCRS IkiC SdulC CONcbOuS
eye peeled on Mongolia, Manchuria and
Northern China as czariSt Russia al
ways had, and only pursues different
tactics in Far Eastern policy. Japan,
despite the fluctuations of her party
politics, never forsakes her overshadow-
ing objective-the consolidation" of
Nippon's position on the continent of
Asia. Fascist Italy, under Mussolini,
safeguards the same Italian policy In
the Adriatic. the Trentino and the
Tyrol that the Italy of Salandra, Gio-
littt and Orlando pursued.
Secretary Kellogg, with such varia-
tions as special conditions in the United
States might neceSSitate from time to
time, favors the same general American
attitude of mind toward foreign affairs
that prevails abroad. He holds peace
to be the alpha and omega of our
world policy. In its attainment he con-
siders that Republicans and Democrats,
much as they may bicker on home af-
fairs, should close the ranks when
American interests reach the Atlantic
and the Pacific coasts, or the Mexican
and Canadian borders, and become for
eign affairs.
(Copyright. 1927