American Foreign Policy Although President Hoover is still in his
watching and • waiting period, all the information from the United States which reaches us suggests that a vast change is coming over the policy of Washington. There will be, if all goes well, a much more definite and positive contact between the Department of State and international affairs. Mr. Hoover is by experience a citizen of the world, and he recognizes the pitifulness of the make-believe that his country can present other nations with great maxims and idealistic treaties and follow up such actions by merely looking on. The Kellogg Pact has its corollary—the active concern of Washington in seeing that the Pact does not become a dead letter. The well-informed Washington correspondent of the Times has for some time been pre- paring us for the coming change. The only notable sign of the new policy so far has been the swift and unequivocal intervention of Washington in reminding Russia and China of their obligations under the Pact. But much more will shortly come to the surface.
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