It has been the traditional American policy, it was pointed out, to refrain from participation in European affairs of no concern to the United States, and the president may be relied upon to carry out his pledge to disentangle the nation from such participation at variance with this policy as would have resulted from unqualified acceptance of the Versailles treaty.
This is the answer of the administration to those Republican senators who have been criticizing the president for resuming representation in allied councils and have been uttering grave fore boding of the entanglements in European affairs to which such a policy, they thought, would be sure to lead. The administration takes note also of certain senatorial suspicious that the president's step represents a covert effort to carry the nation beyond the line of disentanglement from European affairs to which the Republican party is committed and involve us in European questions to an extent to make withdra'val difficult.
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