Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1929, Page 49

ROPEPUZZLED | * OVERU.S. POLICY, Remains in Doubt Concerning Intended ‘Role in Maintain- ing World Peace. BY HAROLD E. SCARBOROUGH. By Radio to The Star LONDON, November 30.—Ever since 1019 Europe has been discussing with considerable interest the question of | whether the United States intended to play an isolated or a co-operating role in the maintenance of world peace. It is merely recording a fact to note that at the end of this decade Europe still is as much in the dark regarding the answer to its question as it was 10 years ago. This being the case, one sometimes is tempted to wonder whether the question, in the terms in which Eu- rope asks it; is not unanswerable; for European and American definitions of such words as “isolation” and *“‘co-oper- ation” would scarcely agree. This last doubt is beginning to find its way into | the British press, in which this week there has been considerable editorial comment upon the various aspects of American foreign policy. Makes Sarcastic Comment on Pact. | Almost without exception in recent ears in Europe it has been the fash- m to assume that American co-oper- ation with other countries could be ex- pressed only in terms of formal, writ- ten instruments, containing penalty clauses for non-observance as though they were commercial agreements. Even this week the Morning Post, for instance, commenting upon the Russo- Chinese imbroglio, called scarcastic at- tention to the Kellogg pact’s lack of teeth, indicating it was, in fact, com- pletely statuteless. Unexpectedly strong support for the opposite view came on Thursday from the London Times. This conservative organ thercby found itself ! for once in agreement with the Liberal press in the opinion that the Chinese appeal to the pact signatories *“hardly shows a true appreciation of what it is for which the pact stands.” The Times went on to explain that the pact “‘re- sponds undoubtedly to the state of mind reached by certain more advanced nations, but is like a thermometer | which, dipped into the international at- mosphere in different parts of the globe, | will give widely different readings.” The newspaper further attempts to point out how little reliance—in view of the past records of the countries now disputing—the other pact sgnatories could place upon the assurances either of China or of Russia to submit to arbitration; and goes so far as to claim that the mere prospect of intervention by the pact s'gnatories has had a salu- tary moral effect in inducing China to reach the settlement she has apparently concluded with Russia. Replies to Hoover Plan. Equal appreciation of what it con- eeives to be the aspirations of American diplomacy, but apropes of another is- sue, is shown by the Manchester Guardian in replying to the critics of President Hoover’s food ship proposas. “It is all very well,” the Guardian says in effect, “to object that the the Unitea States is not distinguishing beween ag- gressors and the attacked: or that it wouldgob the League of Nations of its | blockade weapon. But does any one seriously believe that the American peo- ple will want to aid a flagrantly ag- gressive nation boycott in the face of American opposition?” The Guardian thereupon argues that the League wouia actually be strengthened by the adop- tion of Pres'dent Hoover's proposal, since American co-operation against an | aggressor nation would almost certainly “prove more efficacious than a hall- hearted blockade.” The appearance of such articles in such powerful news- papers as’ these seems-to indioate tac growing appreciation of the fact that specific American action in any par- ticular case will have to depend on America’s reaction to the rights ana wrongs of that case, and cannot be predicted beforehand as certain to fol- Jow the decision of a majority of other nations. Complete acceptance of this idea would do much to smooth the pain of America’s foreign @'plomacy. ! (Copyright, 1929.) | BRITON ENDS BANDIT | RAIDS IN ALBANIA @ir Jocelyn Percy Is Credited With | Ridding Country of Outlaws. TIRANA () —The fact that Albania | 48 as safe from banditry today as any | country outside the Balkans goes to the credit of Gen. Sir Jocelyn Percy, a dis- tinguished English soldier who is re- :fignslble for the internal security of kingdom. \ It was three years ago that Sir Jocelyn was called to Albania by Ahmed Bey Zogu, then President of a republic and now occupant of the throne under | the title of King Zog. The country was infested with bandits, especially in the | north, where their raids were not ll-| ways confined within national nmm| and sometimes produced vexing inter- national incidents, adding to the prob- lem of maintaining neighborly rela- tions with Jugoslavia. The task of rid- | ding the country of these gentry was complicated by the fact that they op- | erated from communities which were | openly sympathetic with their tacties. | Gen. Percy first reorganized the gendarmie on western lines, then turn- ed the force loose against the outlaws. The result is that the bandits have either surrendered or been tracked to their Jairs and exterminated. Further- more “frontier incidents” have become Increasingly scarce. 5 The general saw English service in South Africa, with several expeditions in India and in the world war, dis- tinguishing himself particularly on the Somme. He left with rank of major meral in 1919 and went to Russia, rst with Gen. Denikine's “white Rus- sians” and later with Gen. Wrangel in the Crimea. After the Wrangle de- bacle he had several years of ranch) life in British Columbia before coming here in November. 1926. | FREE TUNING UNDER RENTAL CONTRACT WORCHS 1110 G Esti879 I i | | | | | | ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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