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Show M ..H,a I. !,,. ! 1 !'!.--- PRESIDENT NOI TO MEDDLEWITH ROW EXECUTIVE MAKES 8TATEMENT THAT AMERICAN INTERESTS WILL BE PROCTECTED Wherever the Country is Interested Representative Will Be On Hand to Represent American Interests and Protect Our Rights W n s h I n g t o n. There hnvo been two events In Wu siting ton recently re-cently wlhch are essential signboards of fundamental tendency. The llrst and most obvious Is our refusal to interfere in-terfere In Sllcsln. This step marks tho delimitation of Amerlcn's new policy In foreign nf-falrs. nf-falrs. Wo ure going to ask to "sit In," In fact, we arc going to press our right to "sit in" In till matters as to which America has an Interest. Tho theory of our new policy is thnt America's Interest and Amerlcn's right go bond In hnnd, but where America's Interest ends America's right ends, nnd that In those matters where wo havo no right we arc going to avoid eninnglcment. Proudly speaking, America's now policy Is that wo hnvo an Interest In every economic matter taken up by tbe supreme council, but that we have no Interest lirnny political matter affecting affect-ing Ktirnpe that may bo taken up by that body. The illustration of tills new policy is now complete. We had nn hiterest in tlio economic aspect of tho fieriiinn reparations, nnd ,theifore, wo took a hand. Wo had no Interest In the purely political subject of th.' boundary boun-dary between Poland nnd Oennany, and therefore, we declined to tnke ii hnnd. This Is n complcto picture of the new policy. Of course, the placo where tho line is drawn Is more or less arbitrary. Wo say, for example, that we have an Interest In tlio amount of export duty which the nllles put upon Oermnn goods because that export duty will have an economic effect upon every person In America w'ho directly or Indirectly In-directly buys from Germany or sells to fiermnny every person who directly or Indirectly either consumes Genniin goods or sells goods to flermnny: but on the contrary, our position Is that the boundary between Poland nnd Germany Is wholly a European political poli-tical matter, In which wo hnvo no In terest. Therefore, wo stny out of It. Friends' of tho Wilson foreign program pro-gram nnd the friends of the league of nntlons will, of course, say and say with perfect truth that this Is nn nrbltrary lino. If five years from now tho boundary between Poland nnd Germany Should give rlso to n Kuro-penn Kuro-penn war and If that war should take the courso which tho recent war took and should ulltlmntely Involve us then wo hnvo nn Interest In It. The nnswer Of those who nre responsible for our new foreign policy would nd-mlt nd-mlt freely thnt this Is nil true, hut Hint the line must bo drnwil somewhere, some-where, nnd thnt for tlio present they draw It nt tlio point Illustrated by the two Incidents I hnvo recited. Tlio second episode which Is n signboard sign-board of fundamental policy Is President Presi-dent Harding's refusal for tho present to send troops to West Vlrglnln. TIiIr 'lliistrntus n vltnl qunllty of President Harding's mind. It Is his disposition to net on the second thought, rather (linn on the llrst thought. |