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2 L.N. Herald 1 (1924-1925)

handle is hein.journals/lguenatnw2 and id is 1 raw text is: GUE OF NATI Vol. II. No. 25 NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 15, 1924 Subscription, $1.00 Per Year That Bootlegging Participation! One need noi underestimate the value of what Mr. Owen Young has a1led the boot- legging participation of our Government in the work of the Reparation Commission through the Dawes Committee, of which he was a most useful member, nor the farther participation with the London Conference through the- presence of -Ambassador Kellogg and Secretary Hughes, in order *to be pro- foundly dissatisfied with the manner in which it has been, given. It is true, as Mr. Young has urged, that the fact of participation is much more impdrtant than -the -manner, just as the giving of help to a friend in a hospital is more important. than the kind of car in which one rides on' his errand of mercy. It is perhaps true also that Mr. Hughes and the President have used.the best methods open to them, in view of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee packed with isolationists against the 'Executive. If'this be true, then praise is due both for the' will to help settle the question which for five years has 'been preventing the recovery of Europe and depressing world industry and fpr finding a way around an, obstacle set up for the purpose of preventing executive action. But as Americans we need not confess entire satisfaction with the breakdown of regular and orderly. governmental procedure, the pro- gressive confession and the defence of which have been the outstanding features of this whole affair. A review of the explanations essayed from time to time by high officials, is both interest- ing and useful. Addressing the New- York State Re- publican Convention on April 18th, the Secre- tary of State expressed the opinion that if the Congress were asked 'to authorize execut)50 action in conferences such as have been taking place in Europe -from time to time, the Congress itself most probably would reseive the authority to give, instruc- tions, and you can well imagine what the debate would be and what the instruc- tions would be. On July 22nd, addressing the Society of the Pilgrims in London, Mr. Hughes made a more explicit statement conqerning the in- ability of the Administration to function officially. o Without wishing to say anything con- troversial,onithis occasion, I may give it, as my conviction that had we attempted to make America's contribution to the r ecent plan of adjustment a governmen- tal matter, we should have been involved in a hopeless debate, and there would have been no adequate action., We should have been beset with demands, .objec- tions, instructions. In his speech of acceptance on August 14th, President Coolidge, addressing hiniself to the sane point, made the spiritless, sort of explanation (or was it a defense?) that, throughout all this course of events, we helped in the only way we could help. Finally, General Dawes, in accepting the Vice-Presidential nomination of his Party, sketches briefly the history of the Administra- tion's co-operation with the Reparation Com- mission and says in his blunt way, if the Presidefit and the Secretary of State had evaded this duty (of unofficial co-operation through American citizens, (Continued on next page) /

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