The Washington times., 1935-01-28
BALLOT RUSHED
To COVER Up
DIVISIONS
One Wing Says Entry Puts
U. S. in League; Another
Says 1t Takes Us Out
BY JAMES T. WILLIAMS
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broken down on LQe eve Oh IQe
vote in the Senate on the counter
proposals of the League now
pending.
One wing of the propagandiSts
insists that going into the League
Court will be a long step toward
their ultimate goal, which is to
get the United States into the
League of Nations officially and
completely.
The other wing of these propa
gandists insists that the only way
to keep the United States out OF
the League Of Nations is to put 1t
into the League Court.
Mistake Repeated
One group of these League OF
Nations propagandists, through a
most distinguished spokesman, in
sists that the advice and counSeLS,
the admonitions and warnings Of
the Farewell Address have outlived
their usefulness, that they were
good enough in George washing
tons day but are obsolete in the
modern world.
And in this connection, a curl
Gus mistake, which was made by
Woodrow Wilson when the fight
to entangle the United States in
the League of Nations was begun
in 1919, has just been repeated in
the present fight to keep this
country from being showed into
the league through the trap-door
Of it's private court.
This is the mistake of confus-
ing the eloquent words used by
Washington in his warning
against mixing up in the political
quarrelS of the Old World, with
the no less eloquent words of JET
ferson, who repeated the same
warning.
It was not Washington but JEFF
ferson who warned this country
against "entangling alliances"
The phrase "entangling alliances
with none" is not from the Fare
to us from Jefferson'S first inau-
gural. --. -
Wisdom of Policy
But long before jefferson as
President uttered this warning,
he had come firmly to believe in
the wisdom of WaShington'S
policy, which he outlined time
and again before he came to
write the farewell address, in
which he gave his final express
sion to his views on this subject.
Writing to Patrick Henry, in
October, 1895, when he offered
him the Secretaryship of State,
Washington said:
my ardent desire is. i. to
keep the United States free
from political connections with
every other country, to see
them Independent of all and
under the influence Of nOne."
A year later, when our rela.
tions with France were strained,
the public mind agitated over the
Jay treaty, Washington wrote to
Pickering:
"The Executive has q plain
road to pursue, namely, to full
fill all the engagements which
duty requires: be influenced be-
yOnd this by none of the con-
tending parties; maintain q
strict neutrality unless obliged
by imperious circumstances to
depart from it,"
Washington was aware that cir
cumstances might arise requiring
a temporary alliance or aSsocia-
tion with some foreign country.
His warning, however, was
against making such alliances
permanent. And his warning was
not for day or a year, for a
century, but for all time.
HypOcritical Gesture
While one group of League of
Nations propagandists is adver-
tising it's ignorance Of Americas
traditional foreign policy-formu-
lated by Washington, strongly
supported by Adams. Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Hamilton, Mar
shall. Andrew jackson, Abraham
Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover
Cleveland, and Theodore RooSe-
velt-and insisting that the
United States has outgrown this
traditional policy, the other group
OF these propagandists is resorting
to the hypocritical gesture of
adding to the League Court proto-
coils the Vandenberg reservation.
This is the reservation which
declares it to be the purpose of
the United States to preserve and
protect the policy of Washington
and the Doctrine of Monroe in
spite of the fact that the sup
porterS of this reservation pro-
pose to submit our traditional
foreign policy to the tender mer-
cies of the League of Nations and
the political vagarieS of its pri-
Vate court.
"A house divided against itself
can never stand" The League of
Nations propagandists are divided
among themselves over the League
of Nations protocols and their real
meaning, purpose. and effect. Un-
der the circumstances, it is not
surprising they have sought a
limitation on the debate upon
these intricate documents and are
pressing for an early vote, lest
the division in their own ranks
and the contradictions in their
own case become more and more
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