The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-08
AMERICA IS
BLAMED FOR
| ALOOFNESS!
Old World "Sick
Patient" Says
Expert; No Sure
Cure at Present
nv MILTON pRoNNER

LONDON. Sept s---Europc II
In . worse condition now than u
was last year"
That Is the Judgment Of Col.
r N. House. onc-timc unofficial
ambassador to Europe. He has
made an allsummer study Of
what he terms "a very sick pa
TENT
and there Il no SURF cure. no
psnaces. no patent eurcaIl." he
said.
The blame. he says rrst large
b on Americas policy Of alcof.
ness
Fit L not very easy 10 be cptlmis
= about sick Europe's condition. .
Gnid Col House. In an interview with
XEA service. when one considers
~ chaos OF Russia. the hopeless
61uair Of Austria. the collapse oi
- German mark. and tho apparent
|0rifting apart OF France and Eng
hnd over German rcparatlon pay
u<nts
Frances position n understand
|o&l<- More than any other nation she
|uoeds two things--cash and safety
Vast sums are needed 20 repair war
|6Amaxe 10 territory. which she alone
has had To endure.
~f--~~ .
IN imaginary boundary linz. face
10 face with Germany she
fears: with her ever growing pop
Walton. her industrious worknscn.
her factories and farms intact.
France fears . Germany bent on
, war Of revenge.
Things would have been differ.
lent for France. for Germany and
|fsr the world AZ large n the United
|ofntes and Britain had honored the
Of their representatives.
|rrance would have been free from
fears IL these two nations had signed
|ths pact guaranteeing her from Ger.
Imam aggression. She would have
been In n different frame OF mind
about German reparatl0ns. A. II Il.
|ehe feels that she cannot reduce the
|sixe OF her army. expensive as II is
Col. House declared that Ger
|uuzny.s most statesmanlIke and mos;
men Of affairs told him
|lAst year how much they regretted
What America and England did no,
Ibiwn the pact 10 protect France.
These Germans felt that such a
(pacs would have eascd tho situation
between Germany and France" he
laid. shat IL would have led TO a
nuieker restoration OF Europe"
- Germany. In Col. Houses opin-
m. lost her strongest man In tho
assassination Of Walter Rattle
neau.
In discussing the proposed cam
eeiIstion Of interallied debts. he
said:
THAT all goes hack to the Yer
sziiIes peace conference. II we
had given France the guarantees
abe wanted. II l. possible that
aome plan could have been
worked out at Versailles which
would have helped TO stabilize H.
names and yet would not have
crippled any country. Among
ether things II would have been
/ possible to work out sum that
Germany could pay and that In
I'll justice che should pay"
Il Col. House would make no predlc-
ZION about the league Of nations.
kmsrica's Ultimate course. he said.
riil be q problem OF the next few
6ears.
But there Il one sure thing"
he add. I'VE can't have Il both
ways. If we turn our back upon
Europe and the league we then
have no right 10 complain n. as
result Of the unsettled condi-
lions In Europe, we find our
trade crippled and many Of our
! people out Of work.
! In some fashion America sooner
or later will nave to help 70 restore
(the world. The war made IL in.
ev1feble that after II was ended there
Md be only two great powers. as
against about eight before the war.
These two are America and Britain.
Britain cannot bring about order in
5fhe world ingie-handed. America and
/ Britain. working together. can do So
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