"It Ill Becomes-- "

"It Ill Becomes--"

President Harding's foreign policy, often the target of political tongues, has seldom been more vigorously excoriated than it was by Henry Morgenthau, former United

States Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Yet Mr. Morgenthau's speech was not aimed at the Administration directly and was not delivered to a political body; he spoke at the opening session of the Williamstown Institute of Politics.

That body assembled for its third annual session of four weeks. President Harry A. Garfield of Williams College opened the Institute. As he pointed out, it is an educational institution, whose members come representing neither governments nor institutions, but as individuals. They have no unifying faith or program; they have no power to enact laws; they do not try to record their opinions by votes or resolutions. They come to hear and take part in discussions of international affairs. For this purpose " round tables " are held where discussion is carried on under leaders in the mornings. There are, besides, regular lectures later in the day. Among the speakers this year are Boris A. Bakhmetev, who was Russian Ambassador to Washington under the Kerensky regime; Count Harry Kessler, former German Ambassador to Poland; Sir Edward Grigg, from England; Canon Ernest Dinmet, from Paris; Viscount Bir-former Lord Chancellor of England; General Tasker H. Bliss; Dr. Estanislas Severo Zeballos, former Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs.

To this gathering Mr. Morgenthau addressed his remarks on the subject of The Lausanne Treaty:

" It was not so much the strength of the Turks as the weakness of the Allies that influenced the course of events. The United States did send two observers, but observers do not influence the Turks. It takes force or a show of force to do so. ... Lord Curzon had to assent to Ismet's statement that the Armenian question was ended by the destruction of the Armenians, and the greatest crime of history was condoned. . . . But as long as the United States persists in its course of isolation ... it ill becomes us to criticize the other Powers. . . . Why had our help to be withheld at Lausanne? Will we be responsible in the future if the Turk's successful defiance, owing partly to our inactivity, encourages other countries to treat treaties of peace as mere scraps of paper?"