Evening star., 1921-07-03
DY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN.
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BY Radio 10 The Star.
BERLIN. July 2.-Viscount Hayashi.
ambassador at the court of st. James
who. having a better knowledge Of
Europe than any other Japanese. is
accompanying Crown Prince Hirohito
on his tour. has doubtless read in the
English papers that Germany official
ly has declared in Peking that she
would not consider herself bound by
the treaty of Versailles. unless COM
PEELED.
Directly after this he hears that a
papal bull reviving the old bshopric
OF Meissen arrived at its destination
too late on account of d strike of
post office employees
What is the connection between
these two factS?" demands my aston
lshed reader. angriIy.
Ihey are symptoms showing that
Europe still is under the sway of old
Ideas, is under the sway of force. and
does not yet understand her changed
position, duties and tasks and there
iofe' is quite incapable of the deeds
"nIch tomorrow may require.
u is not true merely of a dozen
dlpiomatlsts of the old schools. but
IS tact, that nearly all OF o,t,clal
Eernany maintains the fiction that
the treaty OF peace was extorted and
WI VIII De obeyed only under consiraint
rms Is being taught in the universities.
Al'hough they know that every peace
treaty is "eXtorted," they refuse to
recognize the Versailles conditions
as part of German law. and. i'm the
same breath. complain that German
territory still is occupied, and that
| allied sanctions have not been re-
moved.
How can a business prosper whose
proprietor instead of drawing bal
ance sheet and breaking with the
past continues to build on illusions
and speculations?
The Roman Pope. who fifty years
ago. was proclaimed infallible, can
no longer forward a message of con-
secration to its destination on time
simply because the employees Of a
| tiny province strike for higher wages.
! AND such sign does not teach blind
Europeans that this is new world.
England's miners strike for three
/ months. cleverly initiating the credit
| operations of capitalists. and tnas
| fighting their adversary with his own
| weapons. England has a terrible
struggle with Ireland: Eneland's
| markets are at standstill England
| faces unrest in Egypt. And England
to keep the French in good humor
must torego what seemed. humanity
i speaking. the greatest benefit of the
! war. namely. the driving of the Turk
out Of Europe.
France believes that fear and dis
/ trust can be the policy of a great
| nation, and that the wrong done her
by a fallen nation can be atoned only
| by requiring the successors to a
| bankrupt firm to take gold from the
! air or enslave a whole people until
| their children and grandchildren shall
| be filled with the deepest hate against
| those demanding this tribute.
| While the big entente is getting
! looser. the little entente is growing
| tighter. Pious Hungarian Catholics
| using Stephan'S crown as mystic
political talisman. are melting their
own and Slovak priests TO under
I mine the Czech state. now ruled by
| DIR. Masaryk, free thinker. and as
able statesmap as Europe boasts
today.
Counting on New Wars.
Everywhere cunning alliances are
being prepared and concluded prov.
ing that nobody considers the present
| situation on the continent as final
Every one is counting upon new wars
Unrest, discomfort. trouble. intrigue
| have been the principal topics of the
European press in recent months.
! Must not the Japanese who reads
! tHeIH TuD MS littie SelioW ndHoS VIII
| pleasure?
Shaken Europe was so unaltered ir
1917 that the japanese readily OBJ
| tanned the secret treaty of London
| which allowed them to refuse to re.
store to China the rich province OF
I Shantung. In such Europe warlike
Mongol ambitions always will find ar
opportunity
The Anglo-Japanese treaty is but &
small factor. Great Britain is a small
| insular continent with enormous out.
side belongings. and her interests are
not entirely identical with Europe's 9
This extraordinary giant empire. more
of a COLOSSUS with clay feet" thar
| was even czarist Russia. realizes the
| value Of American friendship and the
dangers of American enmty. This
| empire knows that, regardless of the
| treaty and its famous supplementary
| clause, it could not remain neutral ir
| the event Of Japanese-Americar
conflict without imperiling the en-