The Archive · 1921

U. S. Foreign Policy

Passive if Only Europe is Concerned Washington, D. C., May 1: The Harding administration wants it to be distinctly understood that the resumption of American rep-presentation in allied councils is not going to involve or entangle the United States in affairs of purely European; concern.

For example, when the settlement. of the Silesian boundary question is taken up by the supreme council, Col. Harvey, the American am bassador to Great Britain, who has been delegated to represent the president in that body, will not participate in the discussion.

The Silesian and all other boundary questions are regarded by the administration as matters of purely European concern, it was stated authoritatively on behalf of the administration to-day.

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