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Show IU. S. Intervention In Europe, International Writers' Topic I IF U. S. HELPS, I CONFAB MOST I BE HELD HERE Publicity Possible Only If Discussions Take Place In America Br ROBERT T. SMALL, (Copyright, 192 2, by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) WASHINGTON. Dec 23. Any conference con-ference in which the United States ac- tivcly participates looking towards a 1 settlement of affairs In Europe must I be held in this country, preferably In I Washington. I President Harding: will not go to i Europe nor will he send any represe ntative n-tative with plenary powers to Europe. I The president believes that If Amer- lea "goes in" her incursion must be ! made in the. midst of the widest pos-Bible pos-Bible publicity. That publicity only is . possible in this country. ! The president further believes that the American peoplo will give their support to plans for assistance only if they know all about those plans The American peoplo are suspicious of Eu-I Eu-I ropean conferences. These conference J smack of old world diplomacy. Washington, on tho other hand, la entirely free from the atmosphere of I : Intrigue and diplomacy. There are H diplomatic traits which do not flour-! flour-! lsh here even If Imported. NO TRIP FOR H VRDING. It Is tho belief in administration clr- clcs that in a Washington conference the extent to which America might I commit herself In foreign affairs would be under better control than if the conference were held In Europe and I cables exchanged were necessary- Mr. ji Harding would want to bo in Immediate Imme-diate touch with such a conference H and as nothing could drag him ovor- j seas In emulation of Woodrow Wilson. I tho statesmen of Europe must come to this country If the conversations, A now In progress lead to a point where I a conference actually is called, I It Is admitted In Europe that help. H both moral and financial, can come to 1 that stricken continent only from the I United States. For the past three H years the people of tho United States. J "however, have been harangued with direful forecast of tho evil that would come with any move upon the part of ' .'3 "America, to participate in lorelgn af-. af-. jj fairs. The halls of congress, especlal-M especlal-M ly the senate, have rung with sonorous 'J denunciations of Europe and all her ' jf! worke. The people have warned that '3. any move In tho direction of European '4 aid would mean a loss of American ln-? ln-? dependence. CAMPAIGN CEASED. I This campaign has now ceased 1 Word has gone from the White House that the United States after all cannot H be unmindful of what is going on in yil Europe, and that there is an obliga-M obliga-M tion on a great and prosperous peo-fl peo-fl pie to lend a helping hand to once well-to-do neighbors and friends. It J will take some time, nevertheless, to 1 wlpo out the effects of much of tho -1 propaganda of Isolation which has '-31 been preached so long, and it is hold : here that one of the best methoeis of a doing this Is to have the conference J come to Washington. jSi The psychological effect of holding I the conference In this country upon .J tho people of this country cannot be j over-estimated. This was Illustrated in a the arms and far eastern conference H held here a year ago The American . I peoplo leu tnax may Knew an nouui the conference from beginning to end; they felt that In a way it was their own particular conference and they were ready wholeheartedly to approve any echeme that came out of that conference. con-ference. If the gathering had taken place in London or Paris or Rome, thero always would have been a suspicion sus-picion in the minds of the American people that Europeans nas "putting something over" again. AVOID WILSON MISTAKE. The experience President Wilson had with the United States senate over the treaty of Versailles is still fresh In the mind of President Harding. There-.fore. There-.fore. If there is to be radical change In American foreign policy, possibly Involving a treaty or agreement of "dome kind, tho president wants the senate to know all about the negotiations. negotia-tions. He wants the conference so held that senators, and the representatives represen-tatives in congress as well, can attend at-tend its sessions whenever they see fit. A number of senators wanted to go to Paris during the negotiations of the Versailles treaty, but President Wilson let It be known that he objected strongly to such a plan. It was not .carried out. The senators remained at home and began to denounce the pending treaty and the majority of the senate remained hostile to the end Mr. Harding may continue to send observers to Europe, may even permit Americans to sit on some of the European Euro-pean commissions, but when a conference confer-ence Is held involving any real action on tho part of this country that conference con-ference will be held right hero in Washington. That much Is settled. |