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to do but come out openly against What Europe Thinks of U.S. (Continued From First Page.) public on the frontier of Soviet Rus- e | The Swedes and Norwegians—and “non-recognition” provision out of the condemnatory resolution. They alone announced that Ethiopia could buy as many arms as Italy from Swedish munition makers. Other countries have established a one-sided embargo which puts Ethiopia at a disadvai factories. Naturally the political am- Japan and in defense of the League— | occasionally the Danes and D\wch—\bltlm and commercial interests of and British interests. Fortunately, for the America political relations, Tokié was represented at Geneva by a man | to the wull! have been staunch admirers of things Japanese- | and policies American. these smaller states and the United At least they | States do not clash, but it would be were until the depression pushed them | easy for them to track along with the | The Swedes stood almost | big European powers—and profit who was well acquainted with lhe] alone at the League Council in de- | thereby. United States. Yosuke Matsuoka had | fending Stimson's Manchurian policy ‘What the leading statesmen of » been educated in American schools | when the British wished to leave the | Europe have and universities and had spent many years in the U. S. A. He was not fooled by Sir John Simon—and Amer- ica did not receive the brunt of Japen's displeasure over being forced out of the League. Policy Now at an End. To a very large extent “making America the goat” has ceased to be a part of European diplomacy. While the United States no longer gets any A credit for what few positive things are accomplished in world diplomacy, neither does she receive the almost unanimous blame which it was once | customary to shower upon her. The | waning interest of Europe, and to a certain extent the United States, in conferences, is partly responsible for the change. Europeans are more in- clined to envy America the geographi- | ¥ cal, economic and social conditions which make it possible for her to| stand aloof, rather than blame her | for that aloofness In the present Italo-Abyssinian quarrel London and Paris have been unable to find a way of mixing Wash- ington into the matter, although an effort was made to have the Briand- Kellogg pact invoked. European statesmen still smile at the memory of Secretary Stimson’s admonitions to Moscow when war threatened between the Bolshevists and Chinese national- L ists. They would laugh out loud at Mussolini's retorts if Secretary Hull gought to reprimand him. Mussolini | would no be as diplomatic as was Lit- | % vinoffl—or as wise. Ironically, Great Britain, in dealing with Mussolini, is | experiencing some of her own medi- cine these days. Turning upon “our | false friends” the Fascist press, which | is 100 per cent controlled by the Ital- | ian foreign office, has been mdulgmg‘ in a campaign of vitriolic vitupera- | tion, which has lead the British for-! eign office to protest formally. | The most insulting cartoon that has appeared in the European press against a so-called friendly nation since the days of “Uncle Shylock” was the one published recently in Tevere, of Rome. An uncouth, naked, dirty Abyssinian tribesman was por- trayed wearing the proud union jack as a scanty loincloth. Europe Is Convinced. It was Washington's procedure in the Paraguay-Bolivian War and the‘ Leticia controvery, perhaps more than | any other thing. that convinced Eu- rope that America would pursue an independent course in international politics for some time to come. The Latin American quarrels were ones that touched our own back yard. They also involved, theoretically at least, the Monroe Doctrine and pan- American relationships. For a while the League counted upon Washing- ton’s collaboration and it appeared as if it might be forthcoming. The premature abandonment of the State Department’s plan for “a more close | co-operation with the League,” said | to have been brought about by unripe | publicity, presaged the complete with- | e#drawal of Washington from the League’'s efforts to arbitrate in South America. Although the League—he,' European states—claimed some prnise} for the ending of hostilities in South | America, the chancellories of Europe | know—and admit—that Washington | and the A-B-C group deserve the | entire credit. It was undoubtedly a | desire to have the United States share | the responsibility for a League fail- | ure that prompted the efforts to ob- tain collaboration in the early stages of the Chaco controversy, but it was also a desire to enhance the political prestige of certain European states —Spain for example—by being in on « .the conciliation proceedings that led to the various unaccepted invitations that were dispatched from Geneva to ‘Washington, No nation the size and importance ©of the United States can remain un- influenced by the trend of European political affairs these days. 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Com- 8 In Our Annual August Sale of AUGUST 18, 1935—PART TWO. representatives aren't here any more.” t Government would co-operate with ‘Then again at the conclusion ogv!urnpe.n nations in .pp’y‘n‘ sanc- the Briand-Kellogg outlawry of war | tions against an aggressor state, or pact it was a British foreign min- | one which broke its pledge not to ister, Sir Austin Chamberlain, who |Tesort to war as an instrument of at_ Geneva pooh-poohed. the Utopian | Dational policy. ~After the storm of dream of the American Secretary of | Feproach which was leveled at him State. Asked in a private audience | for his lack of faith Sir Austin denied by British newspaper men if he be- | that he had ever “publicly” belittled lieved the treaty would advance the | the Briand-Kellogg pact. 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D—9 menting upon the litigation before | his hope of obtaining American moral the League over the Mosul oil fields, ‘m:p;rt'ln times of need, said when & “ | askes or a message to American in which Britain and Turkey were | Sewstapis Testeris 10 lknon. (Eil) engaged, he said: | thousands of my American friends “If you want to put something over | tonight are praying for me that I ~ without arousing suspicion, come to | may succeed in safeguarding Euro- Geneva to do it.” Which brought a | pean peace.” rejoinder from an equally highly-| 1y, fect, “prayers” are about all placed British official that the time |, .qyi¢ic indp hard-boiled European bad come for Europe to devote its | giaiesmen expect in the way of as- energies toward keeping the United | giance from the United States these States out rather than to obtaining days. her admission into the League of : P Nations. 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