The Washington times., 1922-10-05
SENATOR LADD
SAYS To LEAVE
EUROPE ALONE
Just Use Our Moral lnflu-
ence to Enforce Peace
Advice of Traveller
BY J. BART CAMPBELL,
International News Service Staff
COrresDOndent.

BY j. BART CAMPBELL,
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.
Copyright 1922. by International News
Service.)
Beyond looking after our own
interests, and using our moral
influence to help preserve peace,
we should keep out Of the Near
Eastern situation"
Fresh from an extended tour
of Europe, which he visited as
a member of the Congressional
delegation to the interparlia-
mentary union conference at
Vienna, Senator Ladd, Republi-
can, of North Dakota, made this
declaration today to the Inter-
national News Service.
United States Stay Out.
During the nearly two months
he spent overseas Senator Ladd
said he observed enough Of eco
nomic chaos and the conflict of
racial and religious hatreds to con.
vince him that the United States
had better stay out of Europe.
He expressed the belief that the
Turkish crisis would be adjusted,
but that II 1t were not war once
started was likely TO involve all of
southeastern Europe and bring
about widespread destruction and
revolution"
France he blamed for lending
the Turks support morally and
with guns" The French politicians
he censured for "hysterically in
sisting upon the destruction OF
Germany and in attempting TO
transform France into the domi-
nant militaristic nation of contin-
entail Europe"
THE United States would not be
justified in relinquishing one iota
OF the indebtedness of France and
other European nations Ladd said.
'To consent to a cancellation of any
part OF that Indebtedness would
simply encourage France, for ex.
ample, to continue to maintain an
immense standing army, which now
approximates 100000 men or more.
Let France go to work with the
same degree of earnestness that Ger
many is showing. France has not
yet gone to work. She has shown
no disposition to reduce her army
or pay her debts. She is paying
politics. She Is in the midst Of a
dangerous game, which is bound to
react unfavorably upon her, sooner
or later.
Frace Encouraged Turks.
THE encouragement she gave the
Turks Is likely to prove a boomerang
TO France, for, if the worst comes to
the worst. it would not be surprising,
in view OF the unrest so prevalent in
Germany, Austria and Hungary, IL
the peoples OF those countries should
unite with the Russians and the
Turks and turn against the so-called
allies.
France Is pushing matters so far
that the situation is certain to react
to her great disadvantage in the end.
she Is riding to serious fall. /
found the French peasants still
friendly to us, still remindful of what
our 'doughhOys did for them, but
Paris was Enthusiastically anti-Ameri-
can. When was in Paris an Ameri.
can could not help feel the unfriendly
feeling the French politicians have
engendered against the United States.
'In my opinion, the Versailles
treaty is still the curse of all Eurobe.
1t was destructive of the natural eco.
nomic units OF central Europe, for
example, and until the wrongs com.
mitted at Versailles are righted,
there can be no assurance OF perma.
nent peace. Austria is crushed and
helpless. The German people are
poverty.striCken. Hungary is on the
brink of momentary revolution.
The League of Nations has done
nothing and is doing nothing to avert
the impending social and political
debacle which seems inevitable un.
less something is done soon to set
Europe's house in order. Revolu.
tion is in the air. Only a few days
before l reached Vienna, an infuri-
ated, hungry mob of thousands
stormed the foodshops and hotels
and seized everything edible. Fam.
ine and want are goading the peoples
of central Europe do desperate RENE
dies.