The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-09-01
EUROPE'S PLIGHT
GETTING WORSE:
AMERICA BLAMED
Col. House Says There is
No Cure for Illness; but
U. S. Must Help to Re-
store Normal Conditions
There.
BY MILTON BRONNER

LONDON.-"Europe is In worse
condition now than it was last year :
That is the judgment of Colonel L. NJ.
vHouse, one.tlme unofficial ambassador
40 Europe. He has made an all-sum-
mer study of what he terms. "a very
sick patient"
The blame. he says, rests largely on
Americas policy OF aloofness.
1T is not very easy to be optimistic
about sick Europe's condition" said
Colonel House. in an interview with
aNEA Service. when one considers the
chaos Of the German mark, and the
apparent drifting apart OF France and
q England over German reparation pay
meRts.
Frances position is understandable
More than any other nation she needs
Two thngs--cash and safety. Vast
sums are needed TO repair war damage
ato territory, which she alone has had
to endure.
And France alone looks across an
Imaginary boundary line, face to face
with a Germany she fears; with her
ever growing population, her lndustri'
fsJus workmen, her factories and farms
sAntact. France fears Germany bent
on war of revenge.
rs Things would have been different
for France, for Germany and for tho
: world at large II the United States and
britain had honored the signatures OF
teir representatives. France would
tSe been free from fears IL these two
ling her from German aggression. She
suld have been In different frame
Hnind about German reparations. Az
Is. she feels that she cannot reduce
size Of her army. expensive as II
Colonel House declared that Ger
.any's most statcsmanlikc and most
ear hcw much they regretted that
america and England did not sign the
,sact to protect France.
\ These Germans felt that such a
pact would have eased the situation be
tween ermany and France" he said
\ that it would have led to a quicker
restoration of Europe"
Germany, in Colonel Houses opin
r ion, lost her strongest man in the as
zssination Of Walter Rathenau.
" In discussing the proposed cancela
bn Of interallied debts he said:
v'That all goes back to the Versatile,
zee conference. IL we had giver
nce the guarantees she wanted it l.
vible that some plan could hav,
worked out at Versailles which
have helped to stabilize finances
Net would not have crippled any
ky. Among other things II would
fbeen possible TO work out sum
Germany could pay and that in al
De she should pay
Aonel House would make no pre-
4on about the League Of Nations
-Hhericas ultimate course, he said
Awill be q problem of the next few
"a Years.
j But there is one sure thing" hi
added I'VE can't have 1t both ways
II we turn our back upon Europe ant
The League We then have no right L
complain IT, as u result Of. the unset
tied conditions in Europe, We find oul
trade crippled and many Of our people
Il put Of work.
u. "In some fashion America sooner O
|A} will have to help to restore th'
4 .A The war made 1t inevitable tha
IN was ended there would be onl!
ln eat powers. as against abou
~ before the war. These two ar,
and Britain. Britain canno
about order in the world single
N, America and Britain, working
~ can do So"