THE Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921. ANGLO-AMERICAN ENTENTE.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6254, 25 June 1921, Page 2

THE Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921. ANGLO-AMERICAN ENTENTE.

* Hern shall the Preen the People’s Right manna Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain Hero Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion Liberty and Law.

I’ro'ideiit Harding will juako a unm« for himseif as a groat, .statesman if he follow,s the trend of his present inclina-

tion* iind succeeds in bringing about the accomplishment ’of an Anglo-Ame-rican entente. The President realises, according to recent cablegrams, that in such a direction runs tho greatest measure of security and development lor the United- States, The -Anglo-

Saxon race, wnth its high ideals, should and must becCmie the dominant power on the earth. United, the tiwo groat sections of this race would bo aide to exert a big influence loir the. restoration of civilisation so severely shattorhy the recent- convulsion of war. It needs, we feel suie, but the pronouncement of the head of (the Anffiiiunh nation mid tlie support oil Jiis Parliament to bring about a complete under-' standing with Britain, which has ever been ready to hold out the haudt of friendship and meet, the I'niuxl Stated more than halfway in any movement for their mutual co-operation. The Arnoiican political situation, however, is

so (Simplex and difficult that it needs a bold man as President to enunciate a new international jroliey. There are extensive foreign elements breathing hatred to Britain and jealous of her po-.-.-er and predominance, and. a,s’ a roeb'at

cable explained, the, e elements of tJio Unite 1 States heterogeneous population have extensive voting power, which wa,s responsible largely at the recent election*). Then again then' is the traditional policy, based on the Monroe

doctrine, not to allow the United Sta tes to h •come- mixed up with the affairs of either nations and to prevent other nations having a stir in the destinies oj the American c.oiitit.ents. This hard and fast. doctrine was ruptum? when United States armies went overseas, iJirvicl the itronhlcd state of the world to-day 'Wakes it more and' more evident to shrewd American men of hmainciss that in their own interests, as well as the rest of civilisation, such )i! policy must. I’O reviewed. 'Whilsir it is extremely difficult to fonxast what Oongre-s will ultimately do about foieinu affairs. tier iniu-li sccins certain that I lie American poop’,. have not receded bom their determination shtavn last November not in join the f.eoftno of Nations. Tb,. pursonal narrative of ,Secretary hansiiii' a hunt i lie Peace Con. I'erence. issued Inst month, painted a picture of secret diplomacy on (h (> part o| the Peace Contcrenco as a whole, and of arbitrary and sclf-'Wiillcd - conduct- on

the part of ex-Pret-iehmx Wilson at tho Pence Conference, which tends to confirm the worJit that the enemies of the League of Nations have ever said about tho League anil about the Pence- (011foreiuo. This makes it iiv feasingly difficult fur persons who believe- that the Unitor] States must uUiiuaioly build a, row diplomatic bridge to Europe, te make any headway against the mass of unfriendly feeling- the same time,’* twites a Washington correspondent,

'•an increasing number of our more thoughtful classes ,including business men largo and small, i* coining To realise that the only sure and permanent. remedy lor our present economic depression is tlio restoration of economic, stability throughout the world. AVe 1 realise more and more that permaneai.r.' economic 'stability throughout (ho worh], is dependent upon some World association. Those who believe this—• and they include some who aro powerful in the present Administration —do rot sop that they can do any bettor for the present than merely wait and hope that the- prejudice which ha.s been Imifc [up among our people against a wnyidj association may subside. 1 ' The President, i Wo are told, is not concealing his opinion that the proper course, and the sa.f'■est course, i ( s for the United States to link up with Britain, perhaps first in a. commercial treaty, but at anyratc in a general understanding or entente. Such a policy, as wc lucre said, would be welcomed by Britain and would, more than any thing else, make for the restoration of the worßl’s ponce and the reconstruction of society upon a stable basis.