New-York tribune., 1922-09-30
Europe Ruined
BY Versailles
Pact, Says Nitti
New and More Terrible Wars
Predicted by Italy's For
mer Premier i'm Book
Denouncing Peace Treaty
France Target of Censure
Acted Worse Than Germany
Would Have HAL She Been
Victorious, He Declares

Francesca Nitti, Premier Of Italy in
1880 and noted economist, says in
his book, "The Wreck of Europe" to
be issued to-day, that Europe is being
wrecked by the Treaty of Versailles
and faces even new and more terrible
wars. The author declares among
other things:
IF England had lost the war, or if
the United States had been conquered,
cannot imagine what they would say
about conquering Germany which
had had Liverpool New York and the
principal ports and industrial centers
occupied by black savages and by whites
clamoring for indemnities so high that
there was 10 remote possibility Of
their ever being satisfied. AS the final
insult to the conquered, in the army Of
occupation, backward races are rep
resented. Thus, the most cultured
cities in Europe have been and are
under negro violence, which has been
guilty of the most serious crimes.
French Prestige Lost, He Says
"Victory has taken away from France
her greatest prestige, her fascination
as democratic country. Now, all the
democratic races of the world look at
France with an eye of distrust, some,
indeed with rancor; others with hate.
France has comported herself much
more crudely toward Germany than a
victorious Germany would have com
ported herself toward France. She
has on foot the largest army in the
world in front of helpless Germany.
She sends colored troops to occupy
most of the progressive cities of Ger
many, abusing the fruits of Germany.
Germany is in a helpless and broken
tn ho will -
war; she cannot. But if tomorrow she
! should make war, how many people
would come to Frances aid?
mo one can foresee the future. To
have conveyed great nuclei of German
populations to the Sav states and
especially to Poland, to have divided
the Magyars, without any consideration
for their fine race, among them Ru-
manians, Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugo-
Slavs, to have used every kind of
violence with the Bulgars; to have
offended Turkey on any and every pre-
text; to have done this is not to have
guaranteed victory and peace.
Russia, sooner or later, will re-
herself after series of sorrows and
privations, and no one can say how
the Germans will behave.
"Unless a policy of peace and social
renovation be shaped and followed,
our sons will witness scenes much
more terrible than those which have
horrified our generation and upset our
minds even more than our interests.
Praises German Kultur
"The banal idea that there exist in
Europe two groups of nations, one of
which stands for violence and barbar-
ism-the Germans, the Magyars and
| the Bulgarians the other group
of Anglo-Saxons and Latins, represents
civilization, must not continue to be
repeated, because not only is it an out
rage on truth, but an outrage on hon.
esty. Many Of the noblest and great
est works of the human spirit we owe
to Germany, and without her Europe
cannot be prosperous or tranquil.
| What Germany has lost as result
of the treaty surpasses all imagination
and can only be regarded as sentence
of ruin and decay deliberately imposed
upon whole people"
| Nothing can justify the measures of
violence and the depredations COM
mitted in Magyar territory by the vic
tors, continues ex-Premier Nitti. Hun
gary, he adds, lost more in killed in
proportion to its population than any
other country, and conditions Of the
peace forced upon it bankruptcy and
atrocious physical privations, result
ing in a spread of tuberculosis among
| the children and other serious disease
conditions. 1t cannot support itself,
let alone pay it's indemnity, declares
| the Italian statesman.
"Have we any faith that it will not
seek all occasions to retake what it
has unjustly lost" he asks, "and that
in certain number Of years there will
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