Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1931-12-03
THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1881.
EURoPE's PROPAGANDA MILL IS GRINDING!
By GEORGE B. LOCKWOOD

The European propaganda machine, which has long
been doing such good service in the United States is
grinding in great shape again.
It is getting in the groundwork now, thru correspon
dence American newspapers for the belief that 1t IS
America and not the League of Nations that is respons
BILE for the failure of the League to fulfill its announced
purpose of guaranteeing justice and peace in information
al relations.
The American government is accused by the press
agents of European diplomacy, is now being done III
nearly every newspaper of the United States of failing
to cooperate with the League council, and the state
ment is made that our government has weakened in its
attitude toward the of war by Japan to violate Chinese
integrity This mere means that the American govern
ment is unwilling to join in the punitive measures, the
boycott and the of armed forces to compel Japan to
recognize her obligations under the Kellogg treaty and the
Washington agreement.
Such criticism reveals gross ignorance mlsrepresen
taton of the power of executive department. Con
gress rejected the League covenant chiefly because OF
Article XVI under which the League is authorized to
make war to preserve peace Just out of to end
war; the American people not enthusiastic about
that method of maintaining the ''peace" of the world
President Hoover would show remarkable readiness to
usurp power should he attempt to commit this country
to action under Article XVI the only means under which
the League proceed to enforce peace First OF all,
the American people would be almost unit in opposing
American entry into such Second, Congress u1-
der our Constitution is the body which alone has the pow
er to declare and President has the moral right
even if the legal right, to take steps which would commit
the United States to
Neither England nor France wants to apply Article
XVI in this emergency Sympathy with Japan is far more
general in these countries than in the United States ia
pan is only doing in China what these nations have long
been doing and which the United States has done
acquire territory and rights at the sacrifice of Chinese
sovereignty None Of these nations wants to take the
losses that would go with trade boycott and in the
absence Of the argument that the United States, non
member Of the League would profit by such proceed
ing, would not do so. Yet America makes convenient
for not doing what the League would not do any
way The attitude of the European powers is of
echoed in the United States by disoyalists
to whom in every controversy the United States is al
ways wrong.
Not only is the United States not the berayer Of the
Kellogg peace pact but in situation identical with that
now existing when Soviet Russia invaded China two
years ago, America and little Roumania the only
nations in the world that called the attention of the sigma
tories involved to the existence of the treaty that be-
ing violated The League of Nations and the powers that
joined in signing that treaty. remained absolutely silent
until of the Kellogg treaty sgnaores forced another
signatory to it's terms by force Of with much
bloodsed as has up to this time accompanied the Japan