AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19347, 6 December 1924, Page 9

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

ASSISTANCE TO EUROPE. PROBLEM 01’ DISARMAMENT. MODIFICATION OF IMMIGRATION LAW. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 4. (Received Dec. 5, at 7.35 p.m.) President Coolidge, addressing the Commercial Club in Chicago, said: “The United States wants to see Europe raised as far as possible to American economic standards. We have attempted to perform services for the European, nations because by that means in a broad way we are serving ourselves. We want to see in their prosperity the opportunity for larger markets for our own production. We wish to help them, moreover, because it is only through service that we can develop our individual and national lives. “It is along this course of action that we are most likely to contribute to those conditions which are most effective in maintaining universal peace, and will make the largest contribution to the advancement of human welfare. My expectation is that wo may hopefully approach the other Great Powers for a further conference on this subject as soon as the carrying out of the present reparations plan as an established and settled policy of Europe creates a favourable opportunity. I do not wish or propose to have representatives attending a conference which contemplates committments opposed to the freedom of action which we desire to maintain unimpaired. “With regard to our purely domestic policies the publication or tax payments would be detrimental to the pubhc welfare.

“It is desirable,” concluded the President, "to make a change in the Immigration Law in order to make its administrative features a little more human, permitting those already here greater latitude in securing the admission of members of their families.”—Reuter.