Show AMERICA AND EUROPE Writing on the changed attitude ot of o Europe toward the United States Gilbert II Montague Montagne a n member of o the New ew York bar who ft ho hohas has studied International questions sees a Europe less disposed to yield to every ever demand made by America Montague states that the author of o this new policy Is Andre minister of ot o public works In the present French cab cab- inet jnet net knows America for tor he be taught French in Harvard when he was a young joung man and later traveled extensively over this country countr In 1917 he was sent to Washington as French high com com- To Tardieu's mind Americas America's withdrawal from the European set set- settlement settlement and the fact tact that every reasonable likelihood of ot her re re- return return re- re return turn has disappeared imposes upon her a restraint which she has shown no Inclination to exercise And to that he attributes the hos hos- hostility toward the United States I which has grown gro up in Europe since Ince the tho war Absent from the thc I council table by her own choice America continues he says to ob oh- obtrude trude trudo her moralizing her l uninvited ed d opinions and from the Euro Euro- European European Ob-I Ob I standpoint her uninformed admonitions regarding European af at- fairs lairs Montague quotes as PS follows follows' Without in any way diminish diminish- diminishIng Ing hag the greatness of America one onema may ma say uy that the war which in In- intensified her power also intensified fled fied her faults American pride has wollen inordinately since the war Americans in the full flush ot of o suc sue successful successful achievement now seem to tobe tobe be filled with the unconquerable assurance that alone in a shaken world orld they possess the Instinct of ot what hat is right They The move forward these cham charn- champions lons of o tho the gold standard and of ot moral righteousness anxious to tot teach t ach all nU the world the tho lessons of their belr success impatient ot of o contra contra- contradiction contradiction diction fIction for that to their minds means only a waste ot of o time The imperative advice they are so fond ot o giving is very often orten hopelessly inapplicable to those for tor whom it Is intended When nations in whose faces the tho ho prosperity ot of o the United States is thrust have ha been struggling for jears ears with unbalanced budgets find depreciated currencies Buch eucla gratuitous reminders imply no lack lacko of o self self appreciation They The are the themore more inore glaring because the present difficulties of ot those nations are arc the result ot of o two fifty-two two months of war two thirty two of o which tho the self self- appointed adviser spent in a state of ot neutrality and twelve telve in mili mill military military tary tar Inactivity when whet the ruins of that war which the self self appointed appointed adviser escaped entirely weigh more heavily upon pon t the others be be- because because because cause of her sudden dissociation from their community ot of o interest In Iii the midst of o their privileged prosperity Americans face tace to face tace I with Ith a distressful Europe would honor themselves by some meas meas- measure measure ure of or modesty Facts acts have certain rights and because a few tew dozen politicians speak in the namo narno of oC a hundred million citizens is no good ex ex- excuse excuse ex- ex excuse cuse why they should be he ignorant whereof hereof they speak The Amerl Amen can politician who most moet abundant abundant- abundantly ly about the duties of o Europe J rope Senator Borab Borah prides him him- himself self upon the fact that he has hag never taken the trouble to visit it If they were more moro human more modest and better informed better informed Am Am- Americans would be able to refrain from saying many ot of o the tho unjust things and doing many of the im Im- imprudent Imprudent Im- Im Imprudent prudent things which have made Europe so hostile to them Americas America's respect Tardieu con con- concludes eludes reems chiefly reserved for tor materialism and for tor economic suc cess It has long been her pride just Just pride In the eyes of think think- thinkers ers era like James that Bryce that she eho has given to man a maximum ot of otwell o well well being being This material progress was one of o tho the forms torms ot o her hen ideal ideal- idealIsm Ism im her aim and anti mission More Store titan than ever eve in the triumph of oC achievement that has followed the tho war has she made a cult out of o it More Moro than one hundred million human beings believe bellev in all good faith fajth that they aro better than Jho men men of o other lands because they have made themselves es happier I The principal thing that they de de- demand demand de- de mand ot of o their leaders is a success success- successful successful successful ful stewardship of o that happiness These Tardieu says are the standards America has set tor for her her- self Believing Bellowing them to be good she points to them proudly proud I before the world What should the re re- response response of ot the rest of the world bo be boto boto beto to such an attitude Eor or or his own country at least Tardieu lays down a n program If U that program or the spirit of o it should bo be adopted now or in the tho near future no ono one in this country can say that we are not frankly forewarned In brief Tardieu says in dealing with Americans be Just Justas as American as they are Again let us quote him Frenchmen face tace an imperative If U they would deal with America they the must first borrow borro not Am Am- American American American dollars but American op and American love of achievement ement Let us make no mis mis- tako taka about it It the reason r son why France has forfeited Americas America's re reo respect respect is that from the winter of ot 1319 1911 to the summer of 1926 we have never succeeded in anything or to be more accurate we have hidden our rare successes beneath the volume ot of recriminations Just ono one instance the amazing reconstruction of our devastated regions regions ions by our own unaided resources might have heightened us In Amer American ican esteem We went about It in such a way that the tho United States remembers only the Justified crit to which reconstruction gave lOne rise rise We pass for wasters So long longas Ion as we do we shall neither be listened to nor respected for tor Am America erica enica loves loes success Before In in- Influencing influencing America ono one must be ot of o action In order to deal with her the prestige of o success is essential To negotiate we must put ut ourselves on a footing of o equal equal- equalIty i Ity But equality supposes pro frankness and for tor years our re re- relations relations re- re relations lations with the United States have been by the abasement wo we have displayed One often oHen hears beans the United States blamed for its brutal plain speaking I hold after aCter many negotiations with Americans that such plain speak speak- speaking speaking speaking ing is healthful en on condition that one speaks plainly in reply Montague in his comment says Those are sharp words In reading them many an American will be forced to hold his mind fast to the remembrance that it was in its own Declaration of o Independence ence that the United States pro pro- professed proCessed professed a decent respect to the opinions of o mankind |