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MAY 26, 1921 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY VOL. 77. No, 2012 London Offices, Rolls House, Breams Bldgs., London, E, C, HE Amer- ican Le- gion has in- vited Marshal Foch to make a visit to these States in October. The Marshal says he will come if his duties in connection with the troubled state of Europe permit. Of course, we shall all be delighted to see Marshal Foch, and with ‘good luck matters will have improved enough by October to make his visit what it ought to be. We don’t want him to come in the inter- est of any kind of propaganda, We want him to revive the best part of the war. He is associated with the great effort of “the United States to do its duty to the world. It is that association that one would have his visit emphasize. He has a great hold on the imagination of the American people, and we would not have his strength spent to reconcile the United States to any policy of France that is not also a policy of all the world—a policy that leads to peace and looks towards the well-being of all nations. If the Marshal comes on the right errand he will have a great welcome. . E seem to be getting back by easy stages into association with the Eu- ropean members of the human family. The idea that we could flock by ourselves and enjoy huge prosperity while the rest of mankind went to the bow-wows, has not been working out to the satisfaction of its entertainers, and the conviction that we cannot do well even in business until the rest of the family does a good deal better than it is doing, has become so 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York general that the news that our gentlemen are to sit at a table again with representa- tives of the other powers has been very gratefully received. It came about through an invitation to the Government of the United States, conveyed through the British Ambassador, in which Premier Lloyd George, as Presi- dent of the Allied Conference, disclosed that he was authorized to invite our said Government to help in the settlement of international difficulties by participating in the discussion of them, and would our Government please let him know if it was disposed to be represented in the future, as it had been at one time, at Allied Con- ferences, wherever they may meet, at the Ambassadors’ Conference, that sits at Pari don the Reparations Commis- sion? The powers all felt, the Premier said, “that American cognizance of our proceedings, and where possible, American participation in them, would so be best facilitated.” Our Government, through Mr. Hughes, confided to the British Ambassador that “while maintaining the traditional policy of abstention from participation in matters of distinctly European concern,” it was deeply interested in the just settlement of matters of world-wide importance and wished to help about them, and that Am- bassador George Harvey would be in- structed to represent the President in the deliberations of the Supreme Council, that the American Ambassador to France would be instructed to be an unofficial observer on the Conference of Ambassadors, and that Mr. Rowland Boyden would be in- structed to sit again in an unofficial ca- pacity on the Reparations Commission. All of which seems good as far as it goes, and very important, and appears to be highly acceptable to public sentiment. Colonel Harvey, with his biggest shell glasses, will look nice sitting up in the Supreme Council, and perhaps we shall find out from him presently how supreme the Supreme Council is. Mr. Wallace, while he stays in France, and then Mr. Herrick, will listen in for us on the Ambassadors, and Mr. Boyden, who was before our representative in the Repa- rations Commission, is doubtless the best man to go with those duties. a ~ SN Pie ) LL this is like the replanting of Ameri- can feet in the path of duty, which has also come to seem the path of neces sity and business recovery. As said, it is very acceptable news. One of the correspondents, Mr. Siebold, of the World, reports an opinion that to send a man to the Supreme Council mixes u3 worse in European affairs than if we had signed the Treaty. The reason for that opinion is that in the Treaty the powers of its signers were enumerated, whereas the powers of the Council are not defined. The Supreme Council dates from the war and was in- vented by the Allies to co-ordinate war activities. When Mr, Wilson Paris he sat in it and, as the World recalls, Supreme went to it became the controlling agency in the framing of the Treaty. Then it lapsed, but had to be revived because the United States stayed out of the Treaty and there was need of some agency to execute that document. The present members of the Supreme Council are the Premiers of France, England and Italy, and it is to their discussions that Colonel Harvey will listen. It has no legal authority, but exists by agreement and consent, a temporary body devised to deal with difficulties that we all hope will be temporary, President Harding's consent to sending a representa tive to it is evidence of the spirit of help- fulness which seems to actuate him. It seems to be the best thing to be done under comicbooks.com