The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-06


There is no way out of war but
hiuminates that point. We must be
prepared to see an association of
nations in conference growing into
an organic system Of world controls
Tor world affairs and the keeping of
the worlds peace, or we must be
prepared fora continuation of war.
SO It 10 worth considering what
mat continuation Of war viii be like.
II you wiz not organize peace
through some such association, then
organize for war, for certainly war
VII come again to you. or to your
And for reasons set out in my
earlier papers, reasons amply con-
Mrmed by the experiences Of the
washington gathering. q mere limi-
tati0n of ornaments can be little
more than a strategic truce. 1t may
indeed even cut out expensive items
and so cheaper and facilitate war.
VIII Stick To War Thesis.
Let me note here in passing that
the case for some association Of ma
tons to discuss and control the
common interests of mankind rests
. on a wider basis than the mere pre-
J vention of war; the economic and
socaial divisions and discords of man.
kind provide. perhaps, In the long
run, q stronger and more conclusive
argument for human unity than the
mere war evil, but In this paper 1
will narrow the issue down to war,
simply, and ask the reader to con-
slider the probable nature of war
In the future II the development Of
warfare is not checked by deliber-
ate human effort.
And I will not deal with the ILL.,
! equipped, cut-throat war that has
been going en-, and, thanks to the
divisions and rivalries of France and
Britain, is likely still to go on In
Eastern Europe for some time to
come; the wars of the little, self
determined nations that the Treaty
of Versailles set loose upon each
other: the raids Of Poland into
Ukrainia. and of Roumania into
Hungary, and of Serbia into Albania;
the old-fashioned game enlivened by
rape and robbery that was brought
to it's highest perfection long ago in
the Thirty Years War.
These are not 80 much wars as
spasms of energy, phases Of acceler.
ated destruction. in the frotting body
fof East European civilization.
will come II presently France attacks
England. or II America and Japan
start in for a good. long, mutually de-
structive struggle.
French See U.-S-British War. 81
You may say that war between
France and England Ia unthinkable,
bW 30 far from being the case. GER
tain worthy souls in France have been
thinking about 1t hard. Hard but not
intelligently. They do not understand
the moral impossibility of Britain
fighting America, they have never
heard of Canada, they have never ex-
amined the text Of the Angio-Japanese
alliance, and SO they dream Of a won
2 derful time when America will be
lighting England and Japan, and when
France, with magnificent gestures and
with submarines and Senegalese at
last gloriously justified, will come to
her aid" ~ %" ."En"
So France will divide and rule and
Chamber to dizzy destinies. Blushing
and embarrassed American statesmen
have already had to listen, guess, to
some insidious whispers. Even among
our distresses there is something
amusing in the thought of this hot
|, breath Of Old World diplomacy on the
fresh American cheek.
thoughts and acts of France, or of any
great section Of the French people, but
they are certainly the thoughts and
proceedings of noisy Nationalist min
GRITTY in France, which is at present In
a position of dangerous ascendency
there.
Says Alliances Halt War.
Still, apart from the fact that the
British will always refuse to fight
America, there does seem to be no
real reason why, in the absence Of a
developing peace alliance to prevent
IL, either of the other two matches
/ have cited should not be played. In
the long run. you cannot avoid fight
ing II yen avoid comprehensive al
liances and standing arrangements for
the settlement of differences with the
people you may otherwise fight.
So let us try and imagine a war
between a pair Of these four powers,
five or ten years ahead. They have
avoided any entangling alliance, or
agreements, or settlements. kept their