Evening star., 1933-09-17
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.

HARIS.-With the reopening of
l. the Autumn diplomatic season
in Geneva and the world capi-
i tails, foreign chancellorieS are
busy studying what evidence
they have regarding President Roose-
Nelt'S foreign policy.
The United States. they think, is
bound to exert an important influence
Oh European and Asiatic affairs now
as throughout the last 80 years, and
this no less by what it does both at
trains from doing.
One point which seems to them clear
is that American foreign policy, like
many other aspects of American life,
is now concentrated almost entirely in
President Roosevelt's hands. The real
State Department, they think. is the
White House. Various people, they
understand, advise President Roosevelt
on foreign affairs. but it is the Presi-
dent himself who, after listening to
Various viewpoints, takes the final de-
cision. The question. therefore. be-
Ccmes mainly What is in the Presi-
dents mind?'
L. S. Recovery Is Chief Aim.
1t is agreed that his primary objec-
tive is the success of his great national
recovery experiment. There is no evi-
dence that he intends to cut the United
States off from the rest of the world
in any respect. On the contrary. his
tendency seems toward cooperation at
ell points.
This cooperation. however, he is
1eady to make active and effective it
is said, only to the extent that it does
not interfere with nor counteract
proposal from abroad tending to sup
port American recovery is likel5. prompt
~ to be accepted. Any proposal deemed
likely to hinder it is sure of prompt
rejection.
This situation. it is thought tends to
throw the United States on the defen-
sive in foreign affairs. President RooSe-
velt will defend the American position,
it is thought, on all points, under all
circumstances and by all means, but at
the same time it is predicted that he
will carefully avoid unnecessary foreign
complications and Sedulously abstain
from forcing any issues unnecessarily.
His first aim is to make the United
States strong and prosperous again.
Other things. he is said to believe, can
be left until later
Nevertheless, the United States under
President Roosevelt will play it's full
part, Europeans feel. in all major in
ternational negotiations. The United
States is sending full delegation back
to Geneva for the Disarmament Con-
ference. If an agreement can be
reached insuring world peace. so much
the better for the United States and
for its recovery program. If not, the
United States will be no worse off than
now.
Thus. to help such an agreement,
President Roosevelt is still willing, it is
believed. to enter into consultative
pact. join permanent international
arms supervision commission and ultl-
mately scrap the big American parks OF
tanks and guns, provided the other ma
tions do likewise.
But at the same time the United
States is at last tardily building up its
Navy to treaty strength. first. as
measure of national defense during its
delicate reconstruction period and, sec
ond. as a means Of arguing more effec-
lively in the next naval disarmament
conference, scheduled for 1885.
May Send Permanent Envoy.
With the League of Nations, it Is
thought, President Roosevelt intends to
continue that close relationship begun
under President Coolidge and developed
under President Hoover. He IS believed
to be considering the nomination OF
Dermanent ambassador to the League
and even a scheme whereby the United
States might hereafter pay its own way
by sharing pro rata expenses at the