Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — U. S. ISOLATED FROM EUROPE [ARTICLE]

U. S. ISOLATED FROM EUROPE

Our Friends Lost by Leaque Failure, Says Raymond Fosdlck. New York, April 11.—Failure ot the United States to ratify the peace treaty and join the league of nations has made us regarded abroad "as a race of quitters" while “our professions of idealism and disinterestedness are marked down for sham and hyprocrisy,” Raymond B. Fosdlck, who recently resigned as undersecretary general of the league of nations, declared here tonight. iMr. Fosdlck, who arrived here yesterday on the steamship Baltic, has spent the last month in London and Paris, finishing up his work in connection with the organization of the league. “Our isolation Is complete and we face the rest of the world in all! ance,” he asserted. “It is foolish to assume that the situation has no elements of danger for us. Our position is one of peril, a fact that is evidently realized in Washington, judging from the plans that are being made for the biggest navy in the world. The price of our Isolation will be increased armament. “For it must not be forgotten that the ghastly business in Washington has left us without a friend anywhere. All that we won during the war we have deliberately thrown away. The Influence that we had, our position of leadership, the affection in which everything relating to America was held, have all gone by the board. “The last three months have brought about a complete change of opinion. Only one who has been in Europe recently can realize the depth and the bitterness /of the feeling against us. We started something that we failed to see through. We left Europe in the lurch in the middle of the game, after imposing on her our rules and procedure. We threw the league out of the window to satisfy a miserable political quarrel. That is tne way Europe looks at it. “In spite of the refusal of the United States to join the compact,” he continued, “the league of nations is now a going concern. Its machinery is practically completed, its finances are ample and it is beginning to maker itself felt in international affairs. “Every country in South America, except Ecuador, is now a member of the league and outside of Russia and the central empires ot Europe, Rumania and Jugo Slavia are theT only important countries that •have not yet come in and their accession is a matter of weeks. China’s accession is Included in the Austrian treaty which will be signed shortly.” Mr. Fosdlck expressed the opinion that the “wave of bitterness” against the United States will pass. He ddtelar6d America’s position as a creditor nation, while Europe is bankrupt, Is a dangerous relationship to which the obvious inability of to pay the large indemnities that were expected will furnish an additional strain.