Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-06
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THE supreme council has Just been set
l. ting its mind to Europes economic prob
lem, which is the worlds economic problem.
1t sees three things: One, Europe must
produce more; two, Europe must econo-
mize, the little powers cutting down their
armaments three, Germany and Russia must
contribute to the restoration Of Europe.
This program marks halfway return to
common sense.
When the premiers were making peace at
Paris they had these ideas: One, Europe
must lean upon the United States; two, the
small powers must be encouraged to fight
Russia three, Germany and Russia must be
tied hand and foot until England and Franco
got head start on them in manufactures and
commerce and until it could he shown that
the new revolutionary society in Russia was
an economic failure.
NOV they are for the restoration Of Rus
~ sia and Germany because Europe is an
economic unit; but they are so with res
ervations.
It is explained in inspired journalistic
restored it must be prevented from becoming
what it was before the war; that is,
menace of imposing German hcgemony upon
the rest of Europe"
And us regards Russia, while the country
should be- raised from its ruins. the men who
prccipitatcd the nation into its present chaos
should not have an opportunity of exercising
IL malcvolont influence upon allied countries.
As for dsarming, the supreme council ad-
dresses "a solemn warning to the smaller
powers" while France prepares to have an
army Of ! 900, 900 men, equivalent to one
of 3, 900 900 men for the United States. and
England plans under Mr.. Churchill to spend
$500 900 900 this year upon its army.
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NOV look at Europe's production plans.
France and England must produce, but
not at the cost of sacrificing their present
military mastery Of Europe.
Germany must produce, but not to the
extent of challenging the economic superiority
of France and England in Europe.
Russia must produce, but not by any
chance to such an extent that Russian revo-
luton may look like an economic success.
In other words, Europe must produce, but
not too much.
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STILL sheer need is doing more toward
~ bringing the world to its senses than
all of President Wilson's preaching did.
couple OF years more of starvation and
struggling under the burden of debt and
Europe will see the necessity of producing
without reservations and of economizing
without reservations.
Little will be left in two years more of
the peace that was made at Paris of its vast
dreams Of world domination, of the schemes
for making impossible the rise of any other
power that might challenge the victors of
| the late war miltarily or economically, or the
rise Of any other social system than the one
that maintained among the victorious people,
Before the bare need to live, the need to live
imperally will disappear.
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| FNIIE one blessing that the war left in its
l. trail was the implacable necessity that
rests upon the world.
That necessity is doing what President
Wilson could not-killing the old order Of
| ideas which brought on the war and with
which the victOrs emerged at Paris.
Europe is an economic unit" says the
| supreme council.
Think Of the tremendous revolution In that
idea, once it comes to be accepted In all its
Implications.
The war started with the idea that Europe
was not an economic unit, but that Ger
many's prosperity could only be assured by
breaking the economic hold upon the world
of England. and that Ensland's position
i.