Evening star., 1920-01-01
SAYS WORLD IS ACHAST
| AT US. TREATY STAND
Minister Stovall, Home From
+ Switzerland, Pleads Need of
League of Nations.

NEW YORK, January / (by the AS
sociated Press).-Pleasant A. Stovall,
United States minister to Switzer-
land. who arrived from abroad yes
terday on the steamship Nieuw Am
rsterdam. preparatory to retirement
from the diplomatic service, said the
whole world was "aghast at the hesi-
tation" of the United States on the
peace treaty.
everywhere" he said, the ques-
'.tion is asked: What is America GO
ing to do? The welfare and the fate
of the world are so dependent upon
the formation of a league of nations
that the opposition to the idea in
, America appears incomprehensible BILE.
! How can our country stop to split
hairs when the world is tottering?
Some organized power is needed. not
only to prevent wars. but to defend
and promote the welfare of the
world: to extend credit. promote COM
merce and regulate exchange"
business View Advanced.
Look at the business side" Mr..
Stovall continued. suppose Europe
y, ere unable to take the 10000. 600
. bales of cotton and the 250,000.00
bushels of our wheat, unable to pay
. Tor them on account of the low eN-
change and the collapse of credit.
what would happen in the south and
west? Impoverishment of the south
and west would soon affect the east.
America would become a hotbed of
discomfort and revolution.
Talk about the Monroe doctrine.
Every one knows now that England
could have averted the world war if
she had accepted Germanys offer to
override the Monroe doctrine and d
vide up South America. The league Of
nations with England and America
would be the strongest guarantee of
the Monroe doctrine. Many people be-
lieve that if England were to have
1--WE votes in the league of nations
America would have just that much
more strength in the great pact,
Breakdown Threatens World.
THE whole world is threatened with
breakdown. Uncertainty and unrest
are more pronounced now than one
year ago. The work of reconstruction
must be prompt. If the present stat
us continues, Europe will be bankrupt
unable TO pay its present debts or to
raise funds needed for it's recovery
Mr.. Stovall added that if the United
States could destroy the peace treaty
by drastic reservations the result of
the referendum in Switzerland on the
league of nations would be in doubt
At present, he said, there was strong
sentiment for it's approval.
The minister said he planned to sub
nit his resignation in the near fu-
ture. He would have done so long
since, he declared, but for the exigen-
,cies of war. He is on his way to his
home in Georgia.
] Paish Comes for Loan.
I; Another passenger was Sir George
Paish. foremost English economist.
who said he had come to arrange for
a loan to Great Britain by American
financiers. The amount must be
staggering" he said. since England
must finance other European coun-
tries for her own salvation.
. UNLESS England gets the money
she needs for reconstruction and SAN
itation." ne said. "a scourge and
bankruptcy threaten. An insanitary
, condition in the Balkan states men,
aces the lives of the people of all the
countries of Europe. A plague
threatens. which. if once started.
would sweep all over Europe and
cause an appalling death rate"
Maj Edwin G. Dexter, who was
commissioner of education of Porto
Rico under President Roosevelt. re-
turned from war service with twen-
ty-one medals. After the armistice
he served in Poland and Russia for
the American Red Cross. The town of
Montene adopted him and made him
a Cossack. presenting him a uniform
and medals.