The Alaska daily empire., 1921-09-12
Domination"
(NeW York Post. ]

(NeW York POSt.)
 Everybody in Europe is waiting for the wounds of the to be healed. Every responsible states man in Europe wants to the disrupted economic life of the Continent restored But let any nation take step towards the restoration of civilized tacts with. former enemy or estranged friend and Immediately from all other capitals arise bitter outcries against this nearous attempt by peo- ple to "domnate another. English trade with Rus sia is directed towards English domination of Russia English eniency to Germany is attempt to make England dominant in Germany. French frendness with the states of Central Europe is only French policy of domination ill Central Europe. Ger many is out to dominate Russia. Japan is presum- ably out to dominate everything in sight.
 The latest development in this international game of viewing with alarm affects France and Ger many. Discussions between Loucher for France and Rathenau for Germany professedly concerned with the problem of German cooperation in the of the devastated region But oh no! That is matter which would hardly absorb ten solid hours of talk between Loucheur and Rathenau What is really being discussed is Franco German homie bloc. And such an economic entente the ner- voqs gaZers on the watch towers at London discover to be nothing less than a French attempt to dom- mate Germany.
 Suppose England is really bent upon furtherins her economic interests everywhere in Europe Sup pose France is looking forward to economic CO., operation with Germany Only nervous after-war psychology will resent any such attempts from any quarter at the reconstruction of the normal economic life among the nations. Only sem-febrile condi- ton of mind will explain this childish thinking in terms of domination. The elementary laws of monies and trade have apparently been forgotten It is assumed that Great Britain trading on large scale with Germany means the exclusion of all petitors from Germany, whereas it is primary fact that Germany prosperous enough to do large scale trading with Great Britain will be prosperous enough to trade with other countries Great Brit ain which buys from Germany will sell many of her German purchases to France and she will buy from France commodities that she may sell to Germany or Russia Zanzibar.
 Sometimes it would that statesmen could not be more usefully employed than in studying the pre-war figures for foreign trade and commerce as set down in any elementary textbook the subject They would recall then that the same in which Germany bought commodities frOmdGreat Britain to he value of $200,0 900 she bought from the rest of the world to the value of more than $2,5OO O0O- O0O and that when she sold to Great Britain to the value of nearly $500 100000 she sold the rest of the world to the value of more than $l 300 OOO OOO If the truth that the nations prosper together and suffer together should be at any time obvious N ought to be precisely today when the nations are partners in common depression If it is domination on the part of late enemies to be planning common effort to build again upon the ruins the war then more power to the policy of domination.