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PRESIDENT HARDING AND

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

 

by DAVID H. JENNINGS

 

Even as President-elect Warren Gamaliel Harding was bidding his Marion

neighbors a tender, moist-eyed farewell,1 world affairs engulfed him. "With

the exception of Lincoln," said The Nation, "never have there been so many

pressing and unsolved problems." The New Republic described the pressures

as "truly awful."2 Each problem was individually intense and was made more

so from the neglect occasioned by Woodrow Wilson's illness, Congressional

stalling, and the understandable hesitancy of the President-elect. Among the

 

 

NOTES ARE ON PAGES 192-195