Evening star., 1922-11-19
Harden Believes U. S. Should
Seize Opportunity to
Bring Peace.
SEEDS OF NEW WAR S0WN
Apparent Rift Between British and
French Pointed Out-Mediator
Not Necessarily Entangled.
BY NAXIMIIIAN HARDEN,
Germnny's Foremost Publicist.


By Gable to The Star.
BERLIN November 1S.-Consider-
ing the American election returns it
would not seem that the Hughes
de- rine ha- oD;2i-ed the same sue
.ess as the Monros doctrine. The
principle that no foreign state must
NEEDLE in American affairs seems to
have been undisputcd anywhere for
long time. but the amendment which
the cable nov ansrily announces. and
which is much discussed by disap-
pointed Europeans IL not so indiS-
putahly right. namely, international
coop ration means tor American en-
tanclemcntS In guarTelS which we 90
not desire to have anything TO DO
with.
Whether the chief of the State De-
partmcnt really said that or whether
the r-portt- interpreted wrongly is
uncertain. but the wise Hughes. who
called the Washington conference,
and who knows better than anybody
else Americas demands concerning
Europe. cannot have meant that one
called because of his power to arbt-
trat would necessarily he entangled
in the quarrel he was judging.
New Worlds Interest Vital.
Whether the continent experiences
renaissance or goes into hquloatlon
it will still remain important eco
to the new world. whose pilgrims
il furnished and America will
not desire To prove that the war for
which she sacrificed the precious
blood of her youthful sons was
grotesque mistake by now abandon
ing the fight for right and human
Justice To do so she would threaten
herself with being separated only by
oceans which no longer are effective
dsfenSeS against two kinds OF chaos
The man who co-uperates--eSpeciai
when strong like America-can control
his partners every movement, thus pro-
tecting himself from possibly dangerous
separate action. Are not the dangers
of individual national action already ap-
parent enough? Because the postwar
Lloyd Georgian era frightened France
into believing E.ngland'S 'island isola-
ton dangerous England is not eS-
sentiaily q European power. having
other and greater interests IN otner
continents-England still kept alive the
balance of power theory. fearing Franco
German cooperation. and France
thought it necessary to threaten Eng
land not only with submarines and air
planes in The channel. hui with more
effectual weapons on the petroleum
routes. and in India she brought the
Turks back 10 Europe. Thus seed for
new wars IS sovn n the near east:
nationaliS!li is encouraged in Italy, Ger
many and Egypt. and the sovie; Rus
and suitable fronts for attack.
Rift to BE shown.
The British elections has resulted in
conservative successes which mean
strengthening Of the British anti-Turk
position that Lausanne will show
still more clearly the rift between Eng
liSh and French interests.
People who mistake short-Sightedness
for patriotism consider this all favor
able toward Germany. forgetting that
every Franco British orient agreement
will be concluded at GermanE's cost. and
the German statesmen who foolishly
failed to agree with France before
Genoa should do so before Lausanne
really gets down to business.
What good has the British help
against French demands done Germany:
German money is almost valueless and
nothing is done to remedy it. The
repara atoms commission went 20 Berlin
desiring an understanding. but could
get no definite proposals from SHINES
and the Industrial party which would
promise only small reparations and
asked the evacuation of the Rhineland
and most favored nation treatment for
Gernlany's surplus manufactures to be
produced by the ten-hour work day.
Unfortunately the victOrS, found the de-
mands too great and their own advan-
tageS too small
What will issue from this dark
thicket? Foreign financial supervision
OF Germany must come unless Germany
shows she can stabilize her currency.
The proposed foreign stabilization loan
would be swallowed up IN short time
without leaving a trace.
That foreigners now are buying Ger
man land. dwellings, and factories at :
per cent their real value is sad COM
men'ary on the fall of the mark, but in
this way foreign interests become bound
up with Germany. which is a prepara-
tion for the only real solution-rational
Decentralization Of the European
situation.
And America is to be absent from all
this and will have nothing to do with
the quarrelng boys? continent is
feverish from the aftermat tn of terrible
fighting and new struggle is begun for
the earths gold. iron and coal. Will
America let pass this hour of opportu-
nifty for cooperation and perhaps arbi-
tration by adopting prohibition of state
wisdom"