The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1920-05-27

IlOuts tA'A NANAAN az" o. N-ANg ~ AfeNN 1
this first great step towards redemp-
tIon?
zone half the world may not eat
while the other half starves. How
long do you believe the plague of
typhus that is taking hideous death
toll in Esthonia and Poland and the
Ukraine and eating along the fringes
Of Germany and echo-Slovakia viii
confine itself TO these remote lands?
"Only last Saturday our health COM
missioner of New York. Or. CopeNnd
sailed for the other side just to meas
IRE the danger and take prscaution
against such an invasion.
This is one menace at our threshold.
The other. more threatening, more ter
rible, is the menace Of the worlds Ill
will. We can afford TO die. but TO
be despiSed forever as a greedy and
pharisaical nation is a fate that we
must not incur.
The French government has many
serious problems to solve, but the
French peasant is working and the
French artisan, while still sadly in
need Of raw materials, has not lost his
habit Of industry and thrift. The most
encouraging fact about France today
is that her people are alive to the
seriousness Of Frances problem, and
they are going forward bravely to
solve that problem.
Italy, despite her great shortage OF
raw material, Is looking forward and
not backward, Italy can be relied up.
on to do her part
England is meeting the problems
Of reconstruction just as those who
knew her past should have expected
her to meet them.
Plan to Aid Central Europe.
ut is not for me, perhaps, to give
in detail formula for solution Of the
worlds ills, but as have been asked
many times, What would you do?' l
am glad to give my own answer, ac'
cordingly would ask:
IL. That congress Immediately pass
a bill appropriating sum not to ex.
ceed 100000. 600 for the use Of central
and eastern Europe.
20, That congress call upon the
President to appoint non.political
commission of three Americans. dis
tinguished for their character and ex-
ecutiye ability and commanding the
respect of the American people. Such
commission should include men Of
the type Of General Pershing, Mr..
Hoover or Ex.SecTetary Lane. would
invest that commission with complete
power.
"9. would have the commission
instructed to proceed at once, ac'
companied by proper personnel, to sur
vey conditions In Central and Eastern
Europe and then act for the restora'
ton OF those countries under such con-
ditions and up6n such terms as the
commission itself may decide to be
practicable and effective. Among the
conditions should be provided that
there should be no local interference
with the free and untrammeled exer-
else by the commission Of its own pre-
rogatlve of allocatlng materials, Gov
ernmental politics should be elimin.
ated unreasonable and prejudicial
barriers between the various coun-
tries should be removed, and such sub
stantial guarantees as may be avail
able should be exacted in order that
the conditions imposed should be full
filled.
a. As to financial terms, should
make them liberal | would charge no
interest for the first three years; for
the next three years, six per cent, with
provision that such interest might be
funded IL the economic conditions OF
the country were rot approaching nor
NAL, or II its exchange conditions
we're so adverse as to make payment
unduly burdensome, should make the
maturity of the obligation Is years
from its date, and | should have
no doubt as to its final payment.
, rs. Immediately the plan was adop
ted / would have our government in
vite other governments In a position
/ to assist, TO participate In the under
, taking,
, "6. To set forth completely my
, opinion, | should add that in the fina
instructions the American people
). through their government, should say
. to the commission: We want yor
{ to 60 and do this Job In such a man
r ner as after study, you think It SHOULD
be done. This is no ordinary under
taking. The American people trus
\ you to see that 1t is. done right
}. would also say to the commission
$ Use so much Of this money as Is need
Q ed personally, am confident tina
with the assistance and cooperation
G which would come from other parts o
I the world the sum Of s500,000,000 from
/. the tinted States would be more thar
8 enough to start these countries NJ
n their way to selfsupport and rest1fa
}. ton of normal conditions. The who'll
Y plan Of course, involves many prac
d tical considerations, the most seriou
i of which Is that OF obtaining til
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