Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-04
CENTRAL EUROPE s
DOOM SEALED IF
FOOD FAILS THEM
British Director Of Relief Paints
Dark Picture of Conditions
Discovered BY Him on Re-
cent Tour.

WIN bobIs
lay MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRED
London, Jan. 3.--Sir William Goode,
British director of relief, who recent
y returned from a tour of the war
impoverished countries of Europe, de-
clares that unless the allied and asso-
ciated governments provide credits for
food and raw materials, central Eu-
rope Is likely to become "a desolate
waste of seeding thistles" England,
he declares. cannot do anything likely
to be effectual unless the United
States extends credits in proportion to
her means. The crisis in central Eu-
rope, Sir William declares, is of such
dimensions and complexity as TO defy
isolated or individual effort
Speaking before the American
Luncheon club recently, he said: "You
cannot heal the wounds of Europe by
driblets of government relief or dabs
of humanity. The day of palliatives
is past. Emergencies such as that in
Austria will not await for the emer-
gence of the league of nations. Little
nations generated by the self f-determi-
nation incubator of the peace confer
ence are likely to disappear even be-
fore they are old enough SOW their
wild oats.
Comprehensive Arrangement. o
"A comprehensive and far-reaching
financial arrangement must be quick
ly arrived at by the allied and asso-
ciated governments unless half of CEN
tral Europe is to be desolate waste
of seeding thistles The key to the
economic arch 10 organization q cred
its for food and raw materials and the
export of manufactures on a regular
and ascending scale from the countries
receiving such credit.
with the present value of the
pound sterling and with the present
position of French and Italian ex-
change, it is evident that any such
comprehensive credit scheme will be
futile unless the United states takes
generous part. Great Britain has
already borrowed, in partnership with
France and Italy, $4S,000,000 from
the United States to feed Austria.
dare say we could borrow more and
further discount our own exchange,
but that would be only a palliative
which in the long run would do neith-
er Austria, ourselves, nor the world
any good.
ut is not case of saying to the
United State we will not do anything
more if you will not
eThe fact of the matter Is that we
cannot do anything which is in the
least likely to be effectual unless the
United States is also prepared to ex-
tend her credits in proportion to her
means. 1t is no good being 'mealy-
mouthed' about admitting that we,
who before the war were rich, are
now poor. Personally / am inclined
to think that the nations participat-
ing in some such comprehensive
scheme of credits will in the long run
suffer no material disadvantage.
World VIII Suffer.
"Of one thing / am quite certain
and that is that IL central Europe and
the new nations are allowed to stew
in their own juice, the whole world
will suffer In any case, whatever
remedy may be adopted. 1t will involve
on both continents a demand for COM
mon sacrifice and for common stimu-
lation of production. To use Mr..
Hoover's blunt expression: Europe
musts work or starve.
II think ] am authorized to say that
If the United States can see their way
to take part in some such comprehen-
sive provision of credits as | have sug-
gested the British government and the
British people will be prepared. and
think rightly prepared, to strain still
further the resources which have been
so greatly impoverished by war.
''If that opportunity is not taken
am inclined to fear that the great re-
lief work done by Mr.. Hoover, of
which America is justly proud, will go
down to posterity as a task only half
done. I realize that there are many
difficulties in the way such, for in
stance, as the unison of unofficial
American financial effort with opera
tions that may be under the control
of European governments, but / have
faith that these are not
Describing the conditions prevailing
in central Europe as he observed
them in his recent journey. Sir Will
liam continued: Locomotives from
one country dared not bulge across
the frontier of another. Coal trains
with their cargoes are liable TO be
seized the minute they come within
the grasp of a neighboring army. The
only real safeguard for a supply train
going from one country tnrough an
other is the presence of lone British
Tommie who, perched on the caboose
and knowing no language but his own,
placidly escorts the few exchanges OF
food and raw materials which have so
far enabled several countries to keep
body and soul together.
Quite Independent.
"The new allied states exhibit ner-
yous independence in dealing with
their foreign enemies with whom, re-
they are still technically at
war. This constitutes one of the prin-
cipal obstacles to. the restoration of
the equilibrium of central Europe. IT,
YOU had the whole British cabinet
rolled into one superman. he would be
powerless TO achieve appreciable
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