New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-26
i. S. Aid Vital
Europe Now,
Says /. L. Lee
Declares Old World Needs
Help and America Must
Get Into Came'to Uphold
Her Duty TO Civilization
English Are Doing Work
Observer Is Pleased With
Conditions, Especially in
lsaly;RevoIt No, Probable

ltaly :heV0lt MOI probable
Generally speaking, Europe is get
ting on her feet, always assuming. of
course, one thng-that the United
States, notwithstanding the League Of
Nations, gets into the game" said wv
H. Lee i'll his office at 81 Broadway YES
terday. He has completed an extended
tour of the Continent from Rome to
Berlin.
THE fact is said Mr.. Lee, Chat
great issues are being decided in Eu
rope to-day wherein we are vitality in
terested, but in which We are taking no
part. Everywhere you go YOU see an
Englshman on the job doing the work
of civilization. And it is not because
Engllshmen want to assume the lions
share. but because others, and Amer
leans in particular, are not doing it.
We are onlookers. A few American
officers, 'left-overs from the war. at
tend at Spa and elsewhere, ana look on
when vital issues are~at stake, but they
do not speak officially.
ne Brltlsh are running Danzig in
the Polish corridor; they are assuming
-
missions: Lloyd George confers alone
with Giolitti and with Mllerand The
United States is out of it, and Europe
feels - keenly 1t is a very real trag-
edy of history"
Lloyd Georges Plea
Mr.. Ice visited England, France,
italy, Germany and Switzerland, con-
1errlne with finance minister's and
financial I'll
ernments. He said yesterday:
Lloyd George crammed into one
brief sentence the thought and mind
of all intelligent Europe recently in
has speech accepting the statue OF Lin
coin, which now stands IN front of
Westminster Abbey, in London. The
British Premier said: Torn and bleed
ing Europe is calling out for help from
the America of Abraham Lincoln
Lloyd George did not ask America for
money IN that sentence. Most Amer
lcans forget that European people are
proud and earnest people, who are
not begging for remission of their debts
or charity. They simply want us to
come and help maintain civilization. .
or all European nations italy is per-
haps The least understood in Amer
lea, Mr.. Lee believes. While in Rome
he was the guest Of Signor Nitti, the
eX-Premier, in his modest suburban
villa. Nitti. the American says, is the
biggest man in Italy, with perhaps
q more statcsman-like grasp on the
general situation than any other.
Signor Nitti, although recently voted
out of office, is supporting Premier
Glolitti IN the Chamber and voting
with him. Asked of the possibility of
a revolution in Italy, Nitt said to Mr..
Lee:
There has. been no revolution in
Italy for $500 years. Our people do
not revolt. You must not think Of
thinking in one direction. Genoa,
Venice, Naples, Rome, all are Of differ
ent tendencies and thought They think
alike in one direction Only, and that is
the unity Of Italy,
Everything saw in Italy made me
feel that revolt is extremely unlikely
there" continued Mr.. Lee AN out
break at one place means nothing 1t
is purely local, as at Ancona, for in
stance
with some companions took a
motor car at Mentone and travelled
along the northern Italian coast as far
as Genoa. We we're amazed at the
great amount OF shipbuildng. Every
village was building ships. Most of the
ships were Of wood, though at Savona
the great iron and steel plants were
busy with steel ship constructions
I'm France and England one is adj
vlsed not to 20 to Italy. went any
way, travelling ten days, and visited
Genoa, Florence, Milan, Rome and Piza.
train was never late, sleeping cars
were everywhere available and hotels
were good. Shops and stores were GO
ing quite normally, the people seemed
happy, and, most important Of all,
Worklnen were working.
"Italy visibly has the ability Of adj
justment Her people know how to adj
just themselves to changed conditions
of wages and living. Italy needs coal,
oil, cotton and wool and other raw
materials, and Italians feel that Amer
ica should realize this and help, for the
mutual benefit of both nations"
Mr.. Lee found that Italy has viz
tually prohibited the sale of pleasure
automobiles through taxation and
license costs for two reasons first, to
inculcate general economy, and second,
to establish trade balance. The gov
eminent, on the other hand is cncour-
aging the great Italian automobile
works at Turin to increase its output
for export Instead of Dragging about
per capita, as in Iowa or California or
Michigan, the Italians point with pride
to how few there are in Italy
In Switzerland, says Mr. Lee, it is
impossible to obtain a permit de
sejour" unless one can tell the authori-
ties who're he is going to live. The no
tells of every European capital arc
filled and the housing situation gem
orally in Europe is just as acute as it
is here in the United States. In Lon
don many hotels are eXacting almost
prohibitive prices and are filled to the
roofs.
In Germany Mr.. Lee found the uni
vcrsitics filled with students who are
studying mainly economies and the
Spanish and Russian languages France
is steadily getting the upper hand of
hen difficulties. French railroads are
already noticeable for their volume Of
traffic and the maintenance of prompt
schedules, something foreign to condl-
tions year ago
Europe generally, however, is dis
tressed at the American attitude of
aloofness in the vital problems which
certain " appear to be internationally
said Nj. Lee. Europe is asking us to
believe in her, to understand her and
to do our proper part in the handling
Of these vital problems"
Huerta Breaks Precedents
MEXICO CITY, Aug. .6--Instead of
fixing time for the recentis' arrived
Guatemalan diplomatic mission to call