The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-14
6ERnAM'S HOOVER
DECLARES EUROPE
IS BALkkNIlEO
to Hold Balance Of
Power in Future World
Conflict, is Walther
Rathenau's Forecast for
21OO
Nv uAYnry TALBOT

Glw
BY HAYDEN TALBOT
Copyright 1919 by Universal Servtee)
Berlin. Del. Mot yesterday mel
sday nnattsrs Tomorrow 10 all thai
natters" .
And a moment later ] discovered
bat By Tomorrow" Waather Rattle
fsu. credited with being the greates'
(enius for organization, with the
F&4nest insight into the future, IN
Eermany. r~,eant-2too A. n.
with the coming OF the twenty
rat century Continued Rathennu
pharig the world viii Include AK
Eei'y three great rcwer--Amerfca
sussfa and Japan. Ey or before the
k.A- will decide which one Of these
hres powar. will cease TO function.
AN three cannot continue 70 exer-
ise their ssvav. the extent Of which
each ca.a Will be inhnftetv yaster
han ANYTHING the world has ever
Down There VIII be roor for only
80 OF theyn. One must go under,
PICKS JAPAN TO WIN
~ III. ant the odds favor ia
an--to vin, The reason in obvious
Russia must prove the determining
krtcr. Tho ration which allies IT,
Elf with Russia Will emerge victor
Pom the inevitable CONFLICT. For the
Russia cf stae wtil be an irnmeascr-
hle different Euesia frov, her present
enrte--sn1 thsre will be a hundred
~ytilfens fnp~: 81 thern--an6 st the
lcrsent ,'arsa's oppc~tuntttce %
r - ing sAe sec6s ri = future alliance
18th Erssts gre distinctly better thar
knacrtca'A
"trctde Atsilv-a~d - greater I'M
c-tance~-fa rans g a~aAtesnaer are more
CENT s@sk. r. their opportunities
han ars"-scss lamar foresees-~
Ms rr~r4rea, An-erfca lives "A the
49, the srern~dfate p~reser<--3nd In
rodtzafit cs-AieAs of she future Yet
400 II be Japan and Russia
gutnSt Anteriea--Af America and
Iussss arsinst Japan
II was Walther Hasherau who or
anized tn. encorornic SOURCES cf
Germany during the FIRST months If
he Far and he is foremost nov ia
aiming ner economic revival. From
pc authcritat quarter ! heard shat
nhout Eatissnau German would
ave succan1ned to the biockahn be-
krA the end Of 1915.
He is a scrt Of Hoover. Edison
nd echp ah combined, heating the
4 Ais snneine Es1sctrizitats GeseN-
khaft, tho vast electric power rorpc-
Ation whiri, controls that branch of
h1eavor in Germany, He was DIR &c
pr Ia no fowsr than ore hundred
hheerns ha-tng part in the Industry,
nrnrnsYcs ard nnanre.
German Of Jewish ancestry.
ksthenau is that strongest of all
bmbinations-a profoundly religious
IA keenv shrewd business
RAT4ITNAUs WAR FORECAST
Three da-s sftAs the declaration OF
Nv Ratherau vent straight 10 the
2Snnan w.r once. He told the ALL
Sf6Ffui military chteftafns hluntly.
Ma--Embarking Of the mad adyen-
was the mcst tragic blunder n
Fhistcry.
M3--rfnai defeat OF Germany was
66e0st NJ certain as commercial su-
NMtAs mad been up TO the deciara-
naspf var;
ar1~rH Germany was NOT to be uu..
a3aa1e1 through Lack OF raw materials
h0tunust organize All her resources
eSAitah bic ar cncA.
#<-Cnavailabie resourcss must be
ID0& Wy H%@GutG8 az my GQkh. VG~
- the war WAS going to be a long
-
N4All me about America" wns the
w. kAiuE my hests said aftAr vel
14ng me. So II fell that for the 6rxt
= 4 found myself hstng Interviewed
INT yesterday ~ we started 4 tour
the wenaerfpl xtoundr. Ratheran
nAR began to taik--atoppmg me abb
bDEly In tito middle of an ine0nhe-
aentfal sentence, putting bokA hands
ny shoulders and wheeling me
ee4nd TO face him,
ssfou have heard too much about
boz GermAn*.r he ssld. at ms ris-
Sr{ed your point II view. II II NOT
AIy Germany tina. n broksa. II Is All
nrope."
nALkANuxAT1cx o. EuaOPE. y.
THE 70 called crime cf versaiiles,.
went on lis not the harshneas a.
peace terms unster which Germany
Wst stagger. but the HaIkantEa t1on o.
Europe-the ro-usts Of which must
ark to the nndctnC Of France ana
slgtum and italy no less than to Ger
any.
~ 10 sadiy to be regretted that PES
laMt Wi1aoa and thote Of his country
80 who sre animated by equally
lealisktc motives could not have b.
me acquainted with the small poo
~ they have fought 80 valiantly for
ad f0r whom they iAv won this right
sAlf-Asterminat,0u.
sona hae Gnly to look at America IL
IAlt1e that A~nertcana could ha -
Sly 9rasped the real significance II
eskFpe crime ~ yersaiHes--had am
~ ehsre .shoughE 70 compare thsas
AAAii~ Balkan nations With the African
leesnaants sf whom 1900. 0oo .ahabis
states.
s0afnany has tsen Eesepsts arch
a$StenA and now II u Destroyed. The
~bstYnetion 10 not like the 0Ar1nan de-
runtfon Of ncrthArr france and Of
saSium. for r~sparation 10 possible In
- e-sses--And no. snly possibis. bat
43 ~ done.
4 90 cas- 81 Esrops. Ana )
A11yskhe Epropean ksystoue, ths de-
r3x&4au N complete md trrepArshla
INH ~ thu crime az vstaafIle1. For,
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