The Denver Jewish news., 1921-02-16

that the great Powers OF Europe, vic.
tors and vanquished, should, in the
name of the League of Nations or some
other title, conclude fifty years
truce, similar to that which the great
monarchs of Europe concluded in 1915.
They ought to agree to a sincere and
universal Limitation of land and naval
armaments; to compile statute of
the seas which should make the oceans
the common pathway of mankind.
placed under the viligance Of all; to
come to an agreement for liquida
tion of the ruin of war.
And finally, all the States Of Europe
ought to recognize as n fundamental
principle of the new public right, the
political equality Of all races, as it
has for some time been recognized by
Belgium and Switzerland.
These things are not easy, I know,
nltho some of them have already been
done. Many persons shrug their
shoulders when one speaks Of these
things. But Europe would be deceiv-
ing herself once more, as she has so
often deceived herself since 1914, If
She supposed that the price Of safety
will be a small one, after so many
errors and so many follies.
She deluded herself in 1914 with the
idea that the war would be small
one-;> and she deluded herself in the
following years with the idea that it
might be long without running every
thing, and that victory would put
everything right. She deceived her,
self in 1U1S and 1919 with the notion
that it would be sufficient to write
treaty for a new order to exist.
And she has still further persuaded
herself that this frightful disorder Will
settle down by itself, by a kind of
miraculous internal force, and with
out there being any necessity for Eu-
rope to purify herself of the bad pas.
sions that generated the disorder.
Illusions Mislead.
But illusion is a flowery path that
often leads peoples. without their real
Using IL, to the threshold of death, from
which there is no return. We have
not yet reached this threshold, but we
are not very far from it.
Europe was and is chain. Friends
and enemies, we are all united, one
to the other, like the climbers in an
Alpine ascent and by cord that will
mot break ana cannot be cut.
There are two corpses already at the
end of the cord Russia and Austria
The remainder of the caravan is pro-
ceeding slowly, because it has to sup
port and drug these two dead bodies
with it. Germany comes next. and she
is still Oh her feet, tho wearied almost
to death. After her comes Italy. If
Germany and Italy were to fall who
can suppose that France and England
ut the head of the column would still
have the strength to mount, bearing
all these corpscs with them? The
whole line would rush downward to
the abyss.
No one can pretend now to guess
what Destiny is preparing for us. This
alone is sure: that if things continue
to go OH in this chance fashion, driven
forward tumultuously by the uneN'
pccted developments of hate and fear,
Europe will have to pass thru some
terrible times.
He wlfo remembers the past feels
fluttering around him, invisible, the
shades of Aurelian, of Diocletian ana
Constantine. The most precious treas
urcs of our civilization are in danger
of being dispersed, and not by bar
barans from outside, who no longer
exist: but by the barbarians which
our civilization holds within her own
Losom, who are the more dangerous
because they are everywhere, in every
social order.
Save Civilization.
For this reason every man who has
still the strength to think of the fu-
turc. who is unable to live in the
suicidal futulism of the times, must
use every effort, in Europe and i'll
America, to draw back Western civil
zation from the jaws of death, towards
which it is rccklessly tending.
These efforts might he sterile, but
they might also succeed. And even If
they should fail. those who have made
them may console themselves with the
thought that they have done their duty
in the face of the greatest danger of
ruin that has ever threatened human
ity.
1t is as well to note that the first
good example has been given ny ltaiN
The Treaty of Rapallo is the Iirst OF
the peace treaties which has made an