South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-22


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the imports OF the countries. in the
world during a year and add each
up. the difference could be adjusted
by a $4,000 600 check although IN
tn eaggregate the transaction would
run into the thousands Of millions
Of dollars
such an international bank as /
propose. having its branches in all
the chief countries Of the world. at
least ought 90 be able. therefore. o.
finance the commerce OF the world
very largely through a system Of
debts and credits upon its books.
Angel Gives Address.
Unless the great problems OF in
ternationaI relations are settled in
times Of peace. there is bound 10 be
the eternal conflict between ma
tons" was an epigram Of Mr.. An
CELLS remarks
Developing his subject. he con-
tinued by saying that all nations are
so inter-related by complex eco
n0mic systems of today that IT Is
impossible for any country 10 insist
on a policy of selfish nationausm or
ISOLATION.
In support of this theory ne cites
the example OF Vienna. Vienna
today is city Of over a million. But
90 years from today il viii be dead
unless Austria can re-establish a
working agreement with neighbOr-
l5s states. which viii supply il with
raw materials and necessities TO its
. IL T-.-
High spots i'm Mr.. Anglers address
included.
AT the root Of the international
trouble is, the world over, a Ma
tionalst' Public opinion which pre-
vents governments taking the meas
| tires which alone will be adequate.
We must fight the ideas underlying
that feeling. We need a new patriot
/ ism-one that viii work in peace as
well as i'm war
1T is not safe 10 give any nation
power TO do as it will with another.
We should not seek therefore. 10
guarantee this or that nation
against that. but should put our
combined power behind a policy or
I law, which Will impartialIy strain
and protect all.
Guarantee Policies.
America should guarantee pol
iCies, not power
To protect France against Ger
many. we must protect Germany
against France. If Germany has no
I protection. she viii build up her
power TO insure it. That power will
/ be "a menace to France To prevent
/ the re- establishment o. German mil
/ itarism. we must make Germany Sc
cure without it.
Isolated national power has
shown itself utterly unable to make
a nation secure Yet each nation
/ struggles for power. So strong are
I the instincts behind that struggle
that il will continue until we see
+ that it is disastrous TO civilization.
I Then. when we fully realize the dan
/ ger of the present tendencies we
shall check instinct and resort TO
/ other methods, imposing discipline
| upon our instincts by intelligence.
/ He pointed out that all the great
I nations were hercely struggling (as
\ they aTe still struggling for prepou-
deraut military power. Why? Each
! 20 ensure his safety against the
| other Yes; but what motive did
each fear that the other or others
might obey? Why should one ma
ton want 10 impose it's will on
others? Sheer lust Of power In
part thats undoubtedly. but involved
in all the motives. moral as well as
material. was the assumption that
rover was the one certain means
of assuring as peoples right OF aC-
cess to the sutenance of the world;
that am expanding population could
only ensure its future subsistence
/ by expansion - conquest: that
power was, i'm fact. the determining
condition OF success for a nation in
the struggle for bread
IL was this assumption. shaping
SO many Of our ideas and coIoring
so much OF our feeling about pa.
triotisn and nationality. which Nor
man Angel declared to he a great
illusion" Political and military
! power could not exact the means
Of life for the people welding ii