Judge — March 29, 1924 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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Motorist (to nervous friend)—Gad! Friend—Discovered what? We've discovered it at last! “Perpetual motion—I can’t stop her.”—London Opinion. Are You as Real as Hamlet? the Monroe Doctrine now Europe is again being re after a great war, and the United S debating the question of partici European affairs. Mr. Gresson’s studies of the men involved in’ the diplomacy of that other period of read- justment is really a study of the Monroe Doctrine, and a fascinating chapter of American history viewed fromafreshangle, intensely interesting to the present era. century ag ion in various To me, the most interesting chapter in his book is that on John Quincy Adams, grandfather of Henry Adams, son of John Adams, and by no means the least re- markable of that remarkable fami the whole probably the most distinguiShed and distinguishable family in all our his- tory. I think perhaps Mr. Cresson over- stresses the lack of humor in Abigail, John Quiney’s mother. No doubt was humorless, but after all she wasn’t an Adams. The Adams humor sometimes takes curious turns, but it is always there. For instance, Mr. Cresson declares “Abi- gail’s own son” to be at his worst when he writes in his “Memoirs,” during the Na- poleonic invasion of Russia (he was in St. Petersburg at the time) very little about the invasion but says, “Paucton and the Météorologie primitive still en- gross all my leisure.” Some of us would say that this was an Adams at his best. After all, what is a mere invasion of Russia by Napoleon compared to the intellectual interests and speculations of an Adams? What, that is, toan Adams? If Mr. Cresson thinks that John Quincy wasn’t aware of the irony of this attitude, and wasn’t at the bottom of his heart a bit proud of it, he has not quite got at the Adamses. And, after all, what is the matter with this en- tryin the “Memoirs”? — John Quincy had the family gift for realism, that’s all. He wasn’t going to say that he was all het up about Napoleon’s silly invasion, when what really interested him was Paucton and the Mééorologie primitive. not writing history. He was writing the story of his own life. Paucton was more important to him than Napoleon, And he dared to say so. We admire his cour- on she He was (Continued from page 22) age. And some of us applaud his good By the aucton? way, who (or what) was ns, of course,as Mr. Cresson shows, t deal to do with the formuls of the Monroe Doctrine, a fact: whic! hada v . as he further shows, is one more blow at the conventional American belief tha carly diplomacy was conducted b versatile pioneer, laying aside hi rifle to measure wits with the effete states- Franklin, Jay, Jeffer- son, Monroe, all had a diplom ing in Europe which was superior to that men of Europe.” of most of our present day improvised envoys, and as for John Quincy Adams, he began his diplomatic career at eleven, when he acted as his father’s secretary in Paris. ‘To pick out the subtle, sophisti- cated, ironically cynical Adams as a pio- neer, laying aside ax and rifle, is to cherish one of those merry jests which have long passed for American history in our schools, When America resisted the wiles of Alexander and his holy alliance, when it took its stand of i hundred years ago, that was not because our diplomats were rough and ignorant frontiersmen, nor because they were not the match in diplomatic wiles for the statesmen of Europe. It they deliberately chose their course as ation one was because seeming to them the wisest for America, quite seeing through and foiling the craft of the European potentates. What the Monroe Doctrine has become in a hundred years is another matter. Some think from a warning ‘Hands off” to Europe, it has now begome an inviting “Hands on,” to us. The citizens of Haiti are said to share this view. in a hundred years, we have risen from one of the weakest powers, to one of the very greatest. Strength may have its duties as well as its dangers. However, it is no part of Mr. Cresson’s admirable and engagingly written book to preach to the present. And it certainly is no part of this reviewer's job. Not that he would ever refrain from preaching because it wasn’t his job, to be sure. But he has reached the end of his space. 31 ie train- | Also, | Ae. he. 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