The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-30
Word Wide. Peace
Must Be Effected
By Common People
Statement of Noted Austri-
an Publicist, WHO Urges
Reorganization of Inter
national Diplomacy, With
Lay Element An Import
ant Factor
Especial from United Press. }

Especial from United Press.)
London, Dec. 30.-Participation by
the common people in the conduct oi
international relations is the one
thing most urgently needed in the
campaign for worldwide peace, ac-
cording to the views of Professor AL
fred H. Fried. of Vienna.
Professor Fried is the distinguish
ed Austrian publicist whose activities
in promoting world peace through his
journal "Friedenswarte," earned him
half Of the $4,000 Nobel Prize for
1911. The joint recipient with Prof.
Fried was T. M. G. Asser, of the
United Press for his opinion as TO
the most practicable step that might
be taken in the coming year, toward
the success of the world peace move
ment Prof. Fried wired the follow
ing:
,tBy Professor Alfred H. Fried.)
copyrighted, 1911, BY the United
Press.)
You have asked me for the most
practical suggestion in the interest of
international peace during the COM
ing year. | should like to say in the
first place, that war heaps upon it
self so much shame that thereby our
work is made much simpler. HUI
manity need not despair because war
is not yet abandoned because both
rapid fire and machine guns are still
here and there are arguments IN
questions of right. in spite of the
progress OF International law, in spite
of our higher culture.
Present wars are fought on the
borders of civilization. In the cen-
ters Of enlightenment, reason seer:e
TO have gained the upper hand--al-
though often it is only at the last
moment. 1t is clear that we have
emerged from the period of eternal
war" Most of those who lack con-
fidence in the development of the in
,ternational peace idea see only the
wars that are fought. they do not see
the great number. of wars that are
not fought. 7 mean the peaceful
solutions of those serious conflicts
which formerly would have been set
tied by the sword but which, today,
are eVaded through the agencies of
peace. Had the Hull affair, the sepa
ration of Norway and Sweden, the
annexation of Bosnia and Herzego-
vina, the emancipation Of Bulgaria
the recent momentOus dispute over
Morocco and similar troubles arisen
10 years, ago, there would have been
no escape from general slaughter.
i The most urgent thing which we
engineers Of peace avoid purpose
ly the term peace apostles'-haye to
do is to exert our influence for the
reorganization of international diplo-
macy. Our European diplomacy, 20
say the least, has Jagged behind the
spirit of the times. 1t Is still med1aev-
al. 1t continues to practice the ritual
of the priests of Isis and this at a
time when the economical interde
pendence OF the nations has become
SO thoroughly recognized. We need
diplomacy with a business mind
working in full publicity and no
longer ashamed of itself. think
this regeneration could best be
brought about by the participation of
the lay element-sinilar to the jury
system in our modern courtsrby
parliamentary committees charged
with the duty of watching over the
doings of the diplomats.
We should keep in mind that the
mere abandoning of war does, not
solve the problem. We must aban-
don that state of International an
arcfiism which euphemistically we
call peace but which, in reality, il
only latent war. We need a state of
International order, a harmony oe
forces and we must bring the people
to see that this condition would be
in the interest OF every country.
The disadvantages of international
anarchism can be reckoned in dollars
and cents and the same can be said
of the advantages of international
peace This means not merely mo
war" but greater health, better edu.
cation, better justice, in short, a
higher fulfilment of life. This is the
real peace we should strive to bring
about. ~