Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 15

~ \ FOREIGN AFFARS FOUND QUE O President to Confer With Kel- logg on Situation—Naval Parley Dominant. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. One of President Coolldge's earli- est conferences in Washington this ‘week will be with Frank B. Kellogs, Secretary of State. It will deal with foreign affairs in Europe, China and Central America. These have en- grossed the time and energy of the State Department so incessantly that Secretary Kellogg did not even take “time off” for a journey to South Dakota in order to discuss them with the President. The Summer White House was, of course, kept in close touch with de- velopments, but Mr. Kellogg now has his first opportunity to review them comprehensively and from all angles. The failure of Mr. Coolidge's naval limitation conference at Geneva will bulk conspicuously in the interna- tional picture about to be sketched for his benefit by the Secretary of State. The President’s return coin- cides with the arrival at Washington of John V. A. MacMurray, American Minister at Peking. He, too, will re- port promptly to Mr. Coolidge on the chaotic and incalculable situation in China. In Broad Outline. In broad outline, these are the out- standing facts which Secretary Kel- logg will lay before the President on the respective subjects enumerated: Geneva Naval Conference.—The conference broke down directly and exclusively because of the surprise sprung by Great Britain in demand- ing cruiser tonnage that would have given her marked - superiority over the United States in that class of ships. The American delegation, act- ing on instructions from Washington, made it clear to the British delegation at Geneva that it would be “absurd” to think that the United States Sen- ate would ratify any treaty which placed this country in such a position of naval inferiority. This Government considered the at- titude of Great Britain not only sur- prising, but indefensible, because British safety at sea is not menaced from any quarter in th~ world. The United States did not fail, as has been charged in this country, to make possible preparation in advance of the Geneva conference, to insure its success. Our naval experts were in clese consultation with the British naval experts at the = preliminary Geneva disarmament conference for a year and a half. There was com- plete understanding on both sides as t0 what each country twas ready to do in the way of jimitation. The United States also made thorough soundings in London. Nothing ever happened to prepare America for the surprise demands for cruisers, which the British put forward at Geneva. ‘The Japanese ~ :re uniformly in line with the American viewpolint. China Policy Justified. China.—The polivy of ‘“patience with China” and of “protection of American lives and property,” which the United States adopted as its sole program, has, in Secretary Kellogg's opinion. been justified by results. Conditions are still far from normal, but also are far less grave than they were earlier in the year. There are are now about 4,500 Marines in China ——Some 1,500 at Shanghai and 3,000 at Tientsin. Perhaps roundly 6,000 or 7,000 American civilians continue to reside at various points in China, Sev- eral thousand were evacuated from danger zones last Spring, but some of thél have drifted back to their for- mer domiciles. Foreign lives remain in perpetual peril, because of the wave of anti-foreignism still prevalent, and it has not yet been found feasible to relax the protective measures which the United States and other powers bhave instituted. Prophecy with regard to what will happen in China is idle, Nobody knows—not even Chinese leaders themselves. Another advance by the so-called Southern Nationalist Army against Peking is imminent, if not al- ready in progress. The forces of North China are prepared to offer for- midable resistance. The rival armies ‘“fl’ not clash for some time to.come, y be able to. prevent, or at least indefinitely postpone, decisive action between the Nationalists and the North Chinese. Clvil war is likely to continue, in more or less virulent form, for years, if not decades, though it may never reach particularly sanguinazy dimen- sions. To date most of the National- ists’ “fighting” operations have been conducted by propaganda and other methods of overcoming resistance. Nationalism on Increase. Nationalism is indisputably on the march in China and will increase rath- er than diminish in intensity. De- mands for abolition of the so-called *“unequal treaties,” whereby foreign powers have a hand in administering Chinese customs tariff and the judi- elary system, will continue. The demand for abolition of for- “concessions” is also unabated. It is on these issues that the anti- ign propaganda campaign thrives, matters in China are going to turn out is guesswork, pure and sim- . One’s guess is as good—or as l—as another's. “China” as a mational entity is destined, in® the opinion of the most competent Ameri- ©an observers, to live on, though the country eventually may take the form of ‘a federation on sectional lines and |- be broken up into autonomous politi- cal units. Some authorities think China may be remade on the lines of the present British Empire, which consists today of a series of abso. lutely independent sovereign govern. ments. Readiness for Mexico. Mexico.—The Calles government's attitude rd the rights of Amerl- can citizens just falls short of a vio- lation of them. The United States has ended its ‘“negotiatory” dealings with Mexico and is standing by in readines., to take requisite action if “@vert acts,” such as the actual con- fiscation of American property, occur. As President Coolidge set forth in his New York speech of April 25, this is the sole tion at issue between our- selves Mexico. The subject of appointi n_Ambassador to Mexico City to succeed Mr, Sheffield, resigned, has not vet been taken up by the State Department Nicara —Conditions, as provided o imson agreement, are ‘The constabulary is y organized under Ameri- can supervision, and Gen. McCoy has afrived to undertake the preliminaries for holding a new presidential election ip 1928. Civil war has virtually ceased. France.—The French government ‘has made no representations at Wash- ington regarding a new American loan, #gainst which Senator Borah has protested. 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