The New York herald., 1922-05-21
BUTLER Sees FRANCE
AID A new GERMANY
COlumbia's Head as Car
negie Foundation Officer
Hopes for Future.
FORCES NOW All WORK
Doleful View Taken of Pros
poets for Reconstruction
in Russia.
GOOD WILL is GREAT NEED
Fund Is Helping Erection of
New Buildings in Rheims.
Louvain and Belgrade.
FORCES NOW AT WORK
GOOD WILL rs GREAT NEED

LOuValn ana Belgrade.
III new bridge across the Rhine
can be built by French understanding.
French sympathy and French broad
mindedness, it will support those who
IN America, in Great Britain and else
were are ready to give aid in bringing
the Germany of to-day within the
circle of those nations that are bent
upon making the world happier. a
more prosperous and a safer place in
which to live" DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Univer-
sity, declares in his annual report as
director of the Division of Intercourse
and Education of the Carnegie En-
dowment for International Peace.
Forces to bring this about are al
ready at work, says the report, made
public at Columbia yesterday and a
new Germany is emerging. French
security, it is added, can be attained
by the development across the Rhine
of peace loving Germany. The re-
port regrets the absence of similarly
hopeful conditions as to Russia.
Progress. moral and material. in the
work OF reconstruction in Europe, elec-
tion to the advisory council in Europe
Of representatives of eleven nations. e&-
tension of the field of the Institute of
International Education and increased
activity in the direction of lasting world
peace are leading features of the reports
5000 Foreign Students.
There are almost 5000 foreign stu
dents registered In the institutions of
higher learning in the United States,
according TO the report. and the num-
Der is constantly increasing.
The following statesmen have been
chosen to fill the vacancies in the MEM
bership of the advisory council in Eu-
rope caused by death and circumstances
attendant upon the war ::
Austria-Count Albert Won Mensdorff,
former Ambassador to London; DR.. Jo-
seph Redlich, professor of public law In
the University OF Vienna ana former
Minister of Finance.
Belgium-Mgr Deploige. professor at
the University of Louvain and colleague
OF Cardinal Mercier; Paul Hymans.
Minister of State and president of the
| first assembly of the League of Nations.
I China-Wellington koo. Ambassador
China to the Conference on the Limita-
tion OF Armament.
| Czechoslovakia-E. Benes, Minister of
Foreign Affairs
| England-Sir William ]. Collins,
member of the House of Commons; Sir
Henry Edward Duke, Lord Chief JUS
tice of Appeal since 1918; Sir Samuel
John Gurney Hoare, member of the
House Of Commons and member of the
Royal Commission on Civil Service
Baron Sydenham. secretary to the Com
mittee on Imperial Defense.
Germany--Helmu.h Won Gerlach, edi-
tor of Die Welt am Moatag.
| Observation-Disclosures VenizeIos. chair
man of the Greek delegation to the
peace conference.
Italy-Francesco Ruffini, rector of the
University of Turin.
Japan--Minoru Okla, delegate from
Japan to the second assembly of the
League of Nations.
| Norway-Fridtjof Nansen, arctic ex-
plorer and rector manifcus of Chris
tiana University.
Rumana-Take Joncscu. Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
Work of Reconstructfon.
THE work of the year has been essen
TALLY work of reconstruction" says DIR
Butler in his report. This reconstruct
| tion has been not only material but
more largely moral. Forms of organiza-
ton that were disrupted by the years
| of the war and contacts that were
broken have been rebuilt and restored.
] Normal relations of correspondence in
| fluence and exchange of information
have been resumed with all countries
except Russia and Germany.
l.. -.
for some time remain. beyond the reach
! Of any influence which the Carnegie
Endowment may exert. but there Is rea-
son TO hope that Germany will be stead
ily drawn within the sphere of our in
fiuence
For practical as we'll as for senti
mental reasons it is important that tn,
reestablishment of relations with the
constructive and liberal elements among
the German people be first undertaken
by like elements In France. If a new
bridge across the Rhine can be built by
French understanding. French sympathy
and French broadmindedness. Ii will
| support those who In America. in Great
Britain and elsewhere are ready to give
aid In bringing the Germany OF to-day
| within the circle OF nations that are
bent upon making the world happier
| more prosperous and a safer place IN
which to live.
Fortunately il is within the knowl-
edge Of this division that work OF this
kind has been begun. Representative
OF what may perhaps be described rs
the new Germany have been warmly re.
ceived In Paris. Conferences and ir-
auiries are now going forward as tt
ways and means OF strengthening thes,
forces within Germany that sincerely
desire to cooperate with the construc
tive work already In progress in France
in Great Britain and in the United
States.
Security OF France.
"As has been frequently pointed out
the security of France is not a phrasC
and not mere national ambition u Is