Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-03

herself bound by the treaty Of
Directly after this he hears that {
papal bull reviving the old bishopri.
of Meissen arrived at its destination
too late on account Of strike of police
employees.
What in thunder is the connection
between these two facts?'' demands
my astonished reader, angrily.
Still Under Sway of Force.
They 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
fore is quite incapable of the deeds
which tomorrow may require.
1t is not true merely of a dozen dip
lomatists of the old school but is a
fact that nearly all official Germany
maintains the fiction that the treaty
of peace was extorted and will be
obeyed only under constraint. This is
being caught in the universities. AL
though they knew that every peace
treaty is ''extorted' they refuse to
recognize the Versailles conditions as
a part of German law and in the same
breath, complain that German territory
SUI Ii UCCup1cu duu l4A0L dl1lN0 SuAN-
tons have, not been removed.
How can business prosper, whose
proprietor instead of drawing bal
continues to build on illusions and
speculations
Strike Prevents Messages Delivery.
The Roman pope. who so years ago
was proclaimed infallible. can no longer
forward a message of conservation to
its destination on time. simply because
the employees of tiny province strike
for higher wages. And such sign
does not teach blind Europeans that
this is a new world
England's miners strike for three
months. intimidating the credit opera
ton of capitalists and thus fighting
their adversary with their own wea-
pons.
England has terrible struggle with
Ireland England's markets are at a
standstiil. England faces unrest in
Egypt. And England. to keep the
French in good humor, must forego
what seemed. humanity 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 ma
ton and that the wrong done her by
fallen nation can be atoned only BY
requiring the successors to a bankrupt
firm. to take gold from the air or en-
slave whole people until their chill
dren and grandchildren shall be filled
with the deepest hate against those de-
this tribute.
Little Entente Growing Tighter.
While the big entente is getting
looser the little entente is growing
tighter. Pious Hungarian Catholics.
using Stephens crown as a mystic
political talisman. are melting their
own and Slovak priests to undermine
the Czech state now ruled by DIR.
a free thinker and as able
a statesman as Europe boasts today
Everywhere cunning alliances
are being prepared and concluded.
proving that nobody considers the
present situation on the conti-
nent as final. Everyone is count
ing upon new wars.
Unrest, discomfort, trouble, in
trigue have been the principal
topics of the European press in re-
cent months.
Must the japanese who reads them
rub his little yellow hands with plea
,ures
Secret Treaty OF London.
Shaken Europe was so unaltered in
1917 that the Japanese readily obtain
ID the secret treaty of London which
lllowed them to refuse to restore to
china the rich province of Shantung.
n such Europe. war-like Mongol
ambitions always will find an .oppor-
unity.
The Anglo-Japanese treaty is but a
mall factor. Great Britain is a small
nsural continent with enormous out
ide belongings and her interests are
Tot entirely identical with Europe.
The extraordinary giant empire, more
# colossus with clay feet" than was
ven 0arist Russia, realizes the value
( American friendship and the dangers
t American enmity. This empire
nows that regardless at the treaty |
nd its famous supplementary clauses |
could not remain neutral in the event |
t Japanese-American conflict with
ut importing the empires continu-
nee and the worlds good opinion on |
vhich it is based.
Japanese War Possible.
That such q conflict, which could
My happen through Japanese provo
alton is possible is due largely to
European division which is the fruit of /
highlands balance Of power doctrine.
Tho ustted States alone can
close the abyss. Otto kaha, the
New York f1nlRcisr, has IN dis
new book advocated American In.
vestm@1ts u Esrops. The best Ii
EunoDbaaeNn ust aesvos that saoh !.