EUROPE’S TASKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1922, Page 5

EUROPE’S TASKS.

CONFERENCE OF NATIONS. AMERICA’S ISOLATION. ATTITUDE EXPLAINED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrigtt. Received March 16, 10.15 p.m. Washington, March 10. While the United States will not participate officially in the Genoa Conference it is likely that Mr. Richard Washborn, American Ambassador to Italy, will attend as an unofficial observer. It was pointed out that the State Department’s note was not intended to preclude American participation in any effort to adjust the economic and financial conditions of Europe, but the United States considered the exclusion of German reparations from the agenda of the conference was a bar to its* participation. The Administration believes there can be no solution of Europe’s- problems until certain fundamental questions are faced. Received March ’O, 5.5 p.m. New York, March 9. The Press 'bitterly attacks Mr. C. E. Hughes’ reply to the Genoa invitation declaring the United States’ unwillingness to attend the conference. The Post says the real reason for the reply is not France and German reparations. but Senators Johnson and Borah and Lenin and Moscow. The Post, insists that without the reparations question Genoa could furnish a real economic conference.

The Globe refers to “our befuddled European policy,” and adds: “The reply shows that America is unwilling to apply to Europe some of the principles she is willing to apply to the Pacific.’’ The World, says: ‘"‘ln advancing as the chief reason *that Europe has been doing little or nothing to remedy the war ravages and insure the stability ot its economic life, Mr. Hughes makes the refusal anything but rational and nothing so much as offensively impudent.”— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.