New-York tribune., 1921-10-05

were to stand out, if any country. after
the United States and Britain, and our
recent allies had expressed their wish
10 reduce their armament, were to
stand out against the plan to reduce
armaments, that country would expose
itseif to suspicion which would be
well deserved.
Uneasiness Here
Il notice that there is in this coun-
try certain amount of uneasiness re-
garding possible attacks upon America,
and uneasness which | do not quite
understand, and which l think may
say in England generally, is not under
stood. You may say there are pos
sibilities; that there are some possibili-
ties that approach probability. There
are others that are almost too remote
to be worth considering. Anybody can
brighten himself with a possibility, but
the course of prudence is to watch it
and to estimate the likelihood that it
will ever enter into the sphere of
probability"
1t was here that the speaker called
attention to the possibilities in China,
after which he surveyed for his
audience present conditions in Europe.
He said:
eve in England think that you in
America have not realized in what a
state of misery and ruin the war has
left the countries of Continental
Europe.
The disasters which the war brought
have not taught the peoples to desire
peace. We all thought that after such
calamities the desire for peace would
be universal. That has not happened.
Everywhere in Europe you see resent
ments. suspicious, mistrusts, rival am
bitions of rival peoples, each seeking to
aggress upon the other or to recover
something which they think they have
unjustly lost
Hatred the Difficulty
conditions which prevail over Cont
mental Europe, and especially over Cen
tral and Eastern Europe, how is it pos
sihle for business to revive, how can
prosperity return? Human energy
when it is evoked can soon recover
what was lost, but it is the mind that
has been affected. The real disease from
which Europe now suffers is hatred,
the hatreds of peoples to one another.
"You men Of business know that the
commerce and finance of the world
have now become one community, one
in a sense in which it never was before
since man first tripped forth upon the
earth, and when one member suffers
all the members suffer. Markets suffer,
currency suffers. finance suffers; all
are depressed, disorganized and must
remain so, so long as these sources of
evil remain.
"Therefore, one may say that nova
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any great country, and especially for
d great commercial and producing
country. No country can stand aside
and see with Indifference the misfor-
tunes OF its neighbors.
what is the way out for this bleed
ing condition of Europe; what way out
is there from the calamites which
surround US"
Evil in Mental Attitudes
The evil lies in the minds, the evil
lies in the hatreds. The first thing to
be done is, so far as possible, to re-
duce the hatreds; to pers ade nations
that there is more to be gained by
see that hatred has never done any
good and has never got anywhere. To
show that the loss of one nation is
not necessarily the gain of another,
but rather that each nation thrives
with the prosperity of the rest and is
better off when its neighbors are bet
ter off, trading with them for their
common benefit and sitting with them
in d common sense of security, which
enables mems minds to work better be-
cause relieved from the nightmare Of
terror.
"Now, how is it that we can remove
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cions? In the first place. all that can
be done ought to be done to remove
existing causes of injustice All that
can be done ought to be done to warn
aggressive peoples that they will incur
the displeasure Of all that is best in
all nations il they attack their neigh.
bors and all that can be done ought
to be done for those powers which
stand out of the melee, which are not
threatened themselves and which sim
cerely desire peace, to reconcile the
Earring interests of others and to bring
them into better relations to one an
other.
This, as I say, does not imply the
use OF force. 1t implies wise diplo-
macy. but above all it implies the
exercise of moral influence, the inf1u
ence which great nations can exert
The peoples are especially fitted to
exercise this influence. They are the
two peoples which have the least desire
fer themselves, and which are freest
from the passions of hatred. Neither
you. nor we in England, have any re-
Yenge to satisfy upon any one. We do
not hate the way the nations of CON
tinental Europe hate one another, and
neither Of us, fortunately, has anything
to take from our neighbors, practically,
you might say, because we have all we
need already, perhaps little too
much"
Introduced by Mr.. Davis
"if there be any human mean. by
which the world can be made good,
and [ am sure there never was
moment in history when so much
turned upon the preservation Of peace
and upon bringing the nations into
accord and cooperation together, if
mankind can ever be saved by human
means, it is in the cooperation of