The New York herald., 1921-01-23
Unrest in France Natural Sequence of Selfish
Demands of Allies That She Reduce
German Reparations

would be spread before our Martian invesu-
gator in Paris he would also be confronted
by the indubitable' evidence that the whole
fabric of French national solvency rests
upon the uncertain cornerstone OF German
reparations and the irrefutable testimony
that economic. political and moral stability
are conditioned upon the payment to France
BIZ Germany of-substantial portions OF the
necessary indemnities within brief period
Crossing the German frontier, the man
from Mars would find himself once more
passing into less promising world world
torn also by political currents, in part occu-
pied by enemy troops, plunged into the deep
est depression conceivable for a once proud
people. yet denying the fact of defeat, the
circumstance of moral guilt and the prac-
ticaf responsibility for reparation. In Ger
many he would, who can doubt it, laugh
with scorn at the idea that the war was
over or the thing which confronted him from
Cologne to Breslau was peace
Chaos of Misery in Poland
Exceeded in Lands to the East
To follow our visitor eastward or south
ward would be merely to record his growing
amazement, horror, even fear II Martians
possess sensitive nerves. as he approached
through the chaos of misery which is Po-
land, that wilderness Of anarchy which is Red
Russia or as he progressed through starving
Vienna and reactionary ridden Budapest to
Constantinople, beyond which lies the Kemal-
ist anarchy extending from the shores of
the HeIlespont to that indefinite frontier Of
the Caucasus where the followers of Moham-
med make liaison with the servants OF
Lenine.
AS to the final Judgment of our special
correspondent. presented. let us suppose, in
the Sunday issue of the leading sMartian
journal, who can mistake its character!
Could he write anything but the solemn
statement that he had inspected a continent
in which the paralysis of all the economic
circumstances Of life, aggravated by the In
describably complex clashes OF tribe, race
and nation, was bringing about the swift and
certain destruction of that whole civilization
whose splendid monuments and surviving
triumphs only served to emphasize more
strik:ngly the stupendous nature Of the I'm
pending catastrophe?
Now, laying aside all imaginary excur-
sions, the fact stands beyond any denial
that Europe is at the present moment
threatened not with mere economic ruin
but with a complete overthrow which has
no parallel since the Roman Empire fell
for reasons which must find striking re-
productions in the contemporary situation.
From the westernmost promontory of
Ireland to the confines of the Ural Noun
tainS one mas, Steduny lucTetslHB dS OuS
moves eastward, misery, disorder, industrial
paralysis and political impotence. Nor can
one limit the phenomenon to Europe. for
in the remote North American continent
men and legislatures are wrestling with
problems which are only lesser manifesto
tions Of the same central evil.
Disease Due to One Cause Only
And Remedy Is Needed Everywhere
For more than three years, ever since the
armistice of Rethondes momentarily in
terrupted the fighting in Europe, we in the
United States have had our eyes fixed upon
details of the European situation and upon
alleged remedies which have, each in turn,
proved TO have no efficacy and to have
aggravated rather than ameliorated condi-
tions. The treaty of Versailles, which was
to have brought actual peace, to have turned
the world over from the politicians to the
producers, did nothing of the sort. The