The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-02

word, recover 90 the conditions OF
1914 is keouiy debated cverywh hero
aud nowhere more frankly than in
Britain itself. \ new competitor
has arisen I'm the west. financially
stronger than Britain ls or probably
ever can be. now. The war has
made that new rival the strongest
Industrial power in the world and
tho largest creditor nation. At the
same time the conflict has Eraycb
reduced British foreign investments.
wiped out those markets I'm which
Britain was huhlcst and destroyed
the purchasing power NJ countries
which consumed British products
and supplied either f-Io food or the
funds TO pay the food hill contracted
elsewhere.
ON the continent the rcrarntions
provisions " the treaty OF Versailles
have not alone abolished tho Rrltsh
coal market In France. iu Belgium.
In Italy but In addition promise to
impose upon Germany an industrial
development to pay her debts to
her conquerCrs which will make her
ten times as dangerous u competitor
as she was IN 1914. Moreover u
Britain is to share In the German
/ payments, she can only share by
,ouseuting to take precisely the
Kind Of things she manufactures and
sells and her own factories must
stand idle I'm consequence.
\ Parallel FOR Rome.
Today one has only TO read the
London press to realize the agita
/ ton Of economy which ls going on
throughout the country Millions
/ of men and women are out Of work
and there IL no Immediate prospect
that they will be able Go lind work.
Al the same moment tho work OF
empire building IL going on and
British troops ana British funds are
being employed TO organize Mos
/ opot0mia, Palestine. 10 defend Egypt
md India And one can easily lind
/ In tho present British situation an
analogy with that OF Rome. whom.
/ at least the strain OF expansion be-
/ came too great and the Emporors
/ decided to retire behind tho Rhine
and the Danube and sct enduring
/ limits to tho empire. Itself
The crisis In British affairs to-
day is, beyond all doubt the
greatest in recent centuries. VIC
tOriOns Ia the most extensive
struggle In British history, the
British have suffered and are suf-
fcrinG more than France, for
| example, suffered when Napoleon
fell or when the Third Empire
expired IN catastrophe defeat.
Every disorder, anywhere In the
world adds to the British cmbar-
rnsSmCnt, because mcHsurcnbly Il
reduces the amount of British
trade in the troubled area. The
bitterness felt toward France owes
It's intensity to the feeling. that
French policy Is responsible, so
far ns the attitude toward Ger
many Il concerned. for British
suffering. The effort TO start the
watch OF world trade tickling again,
even at the costs of bargains with
the boishCNiSts, Understandings
with the Germans, In fine, British
policy as IL Inns manifested Itself
ever since the Paris conference
and indeed at that gathering. is
conditioned upon ia" crisis In
British domestic life. which II in
reality n condition rather than IA
crisis.
Can't Clash With America.
Lay aside all the genuincl.
friendly and sincere feelings O
many thousands OF Englishmen 81
far as America is concerned an,
iundorneath the British policy O
app:OAchment with the Unitet
States lies the frank recognition
that any real rivalry, ana clash he
tween America and Britain, what
ever Its effect upon ms. would spell
nothing short Of final ruin for tn
British Islands In association witt
US II Is still possible FOR the Brltisl
to restore their broken fortunes
given supreme akill, experience
given the qualities which hav,
made the nation what il has beer
! for centuries
In alliance with us, and tha
was the Paris dream, still surviv
ing many British minds. it woul,
have been possible by the shoc
strength Of the combination 20 I'm
pose peace upon the world an,
compel return TO business no
only eventually but with compare
tive promptitude II the Britisl
J are bitter at our course since Paris
; and many cf them unmistakabl
. are, II is because they tc"l thU
E much Of their present suffering
: Ndue to postpJncmcnt Of the re
turn 20 settled conditions which fol
lowed our refusal 10 act with then
or mix into tho affairs NJ Europe
] II there Is disorder an over Europ
$ today, which expresses itself 10
= the Englishman In terms Of uu
, employment, IL is In his mind du,
Al4 no HIltll hfkl'f 10 'Al WIN
drawal from the councils Of tn
I world and IN fact our ropudNuo'
! Of an Anglo-Amoricau combination
: for restore world order as a de
tail in restoring world trade.
II Englishmen today I'm very larE
numbers soutinue 10 advocate an,
b. even 10 expect an Augio-AmeriCaI
: association, it is because at bottom
= this association gives the suros
I and shortest II not the only promis
, Of return of the world 90 thos
- old conditions Of life which We
. and are essential 20 tho continue
! maintenance upon English soil %
, millions Of men and women win
{ now live there. but whose 'NIstoUo
, has been placed tn immodlat
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