Show COOLIDGE NOT KNOWN ABROAD I Over I Europe Speculates Policy of New President I nr fly l A BIRD I Special Cable Copyright 1923 1 23 PARIS Aug What 4 4 What manner ot of a man Is Calvin Coolidge In every of o this thill question has hM been blen asked since the fateful morning when the tho cable cable- and nd radio n 11 shed news nes or of Warren G Hardings Harding's death dath The Tho ThoI I difference 1 in time of oC and I that tar far distant American eI y San Jo Is approximatelY nine hours houra sO sOt o It t was as w a not Q co wen well Into Friday morning that the announcement an- an an announcement or of o the passing of ot Mr II larding became known n I 1 The American tr I system is so lit little tie understood by bythe bythe the ordinary European that the Ithe accession of or Mr Coolidge to the Julies duties of ot the tho presidency has ham and andI I will continue to raise ralso many hopes of American participation in the affairs of Europe The new 1 presidents preslIn I dent dents s declaration that no change In In the policy of or the late President Is ii contemplated has hIlS been accepted not in the same fame light that It was received cd in the states but rather In the belief that Mr Cool Cool- Cool felt It the polite and proper thing to do at al the moment he h as- as assumed as assumed the office of thief chief executive e II Ii brief brier there is the thc hope hop that hat the new ret regime may perhaps lessen lesen the attitude of ot aloofness held by bythe bythe bythe the United States since sine Mr Harding Har- Har Har-dinc Har dint ding came into power GRIEF F I Allover All over in the simple homes or of o the plain people there therl Is isreal isreal real 1001 grief over the death of Mr 11 Hardine Harding It can be laid said with the utmost confidence that no Amer Amer- American American ican president of recent times limes made madeI I so direct and straightforward an I appeal to the th sympathy of or the common man He was Wa a Il good man an honest man a Il sincere man The above phrases phrase were wre thos those used by the little groups that g gath- gath red lath th- th thred red to d discuss I cuss the news s of 0 Mr death It ll would be bo useless to pretend that hat regarded Mr Ir larding Harding as a Il great statesman It was WIlS In tact fact his ser CT er lack of craftiness and cle that endeared him mOb most to to the hearts of the common people They felt that he he e was some one like Irke themselves a plain Isome citizen bewildered in the masses mul s sot ot of diplomatic and political In in- in Intrigue but striving against more clever and crafty minds l to mak make the elementary qualities of ot honesty and good rood will prevail pre over the themore themore themore more subtle forces force of oC o the Lional political game came I J s IA JIn riX PEOPLE The fhe writer In numerous visits to all the countries ot or Europe has often orten had occasion to become becom ac c- c d with the popular feeling retarding regarding Mr II larding and und has I hear heard countless express themselves in terms that made mado It plaIn that they IhlY regarded Mr 11 dine ItI I ding a as n a warm hearted gen gen- generous generous crous erous friend than as IlS tile the he chief or of ora ofa ofa a great sale ale who ho might inspire awe e and respect because of f the power vested In him They fhy felt he heas was pas more interested in p people than anything else Ilse and even when hi his official Ilet acts might not he be I ap-I ap- ap approved ap pro proved ed by hy national sentiment is In inthis this or some other nallon nalon there was WIlS rarely a word ord of resentment against th- th th ruin man himself ol or people in Europe to- to today to today day aro truckling lIng amid the bitter or of o war wrecked h The los loss of ot the kindly sym sym- sympathy sympathy pathy of ot a a man they loved loed and trusted is felt ett keenly I PI n S Such 1 a tast ast gulf cult exists between the personality of o Mr II larding and andt t that hat of or president Coolidge that Europeans generally as 5 they rc read d the cabled d biographies and ket hIs hI's of or the n new lI e were puzzled by he th contrast 10 Mr r lIar lIar- Har dInG the they knew kne to be b of genial and expansive temperament In- In Indeed In Indeed deed Mr rr Ilari ing had Iud sp w ont nt some sometime sometime time lime abroad aD and because of or this was a better know 10 n than th n most meni men v ho ha halo haic e be en n chief executives ot of the United States Slates Mr Coolidge Il a areli areti reli inc ing quiet quirt withal friendly man manIs Is unknown to people here T Tho o office of rice lice president is a more effective barrier against imst knowl knowl- knowledge knowledge edge edze of or a mans man's personality on this side than it is in America where one ODe of or too toe standing jokes of polities politics concerns or erns itself with tir of the man who vho Is b c rice Ice s president It came therefore as a 3 surprise to the a average verae European to road read the descriptions or of o austerity I sf and Ir iron iron n like liko will o as a of o President Coolidge and many maDY thought Itt the th now executive tp tob b be temperamentally akin to former President Wilson Nilson The Tho coupled with WIt the ho ho recollection l r that Mr I Coolidge gO has never n ver been ly 13 antagonistic to till the league of I nations nation was waa a favorable fa fa orble one be- be because because be because I cause Ur Mr Wilson has 1118 hi ever vel ben been hold In retard regard over here |