New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
More Ruthless
w ars Coming.
Kerr Predicts
Lloyd Georges Ex-Secretary
Tells Institute That In
sentions Will Go When
Existence Is at Stake
Advocates World League
Asserts Time Is Here TO Dis
solve National Barriers
and Also Lay Peace Basis
spector ptspasoh 70 The Tribune

wILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, Aug. 49,
With the earth made safe for democ-
racy, Lionel Curtis, one Of the British
visitors to the Institute of Politics,
suggests the characterization of the
Kingdom" of heaven. He told an in
stitute audience to-day that if there
had been a word for commonwealth"
in the original AramaIc he is certain
that we should have had common
wealth of heaven" instead of the pres
ent "kingdom."
Lloyd Georges former secretary,
Philip Kerr, said that in future wars
the world will be safe neither from
the use of poison gases nor submarines.
Developing this subject, Mr. Kerr said;
when the next war does come, what
will it be like? AS the last war shows,
when the national existence is at stake,
every international rule for making
war less horrible is ruthlessly swept
aside. Some nation will enlist every
latest discovery of natural science in
order that it may save itself, and then
every other belligerent will do the
same in self-defense. 1t is the widest
folly to imagine anything else.
Next War More Horrible
"You cannot humanize war. You can
only abolish it. SO if mankind goes
to sleep again, as it has done 80 often
in the past it will awake to find itself
engaged in military operations, the
basis of which will be the use of
poison gas, airplanes dropping explo-
sives and gas far and wide over de-
fenseless cities, submarines, and with
all the horrible refnements that radio
activity and other similar develop
ments will introduce into the conduct
of war.
tion shrinks the world and every peo-
pie becomes more involved with every
other-in trade, in finance, in knowll-
edge, in politics-every war will tend
ali the more rapidly to become world
war. You can see the process in the
contrast between the proportion of
humanity engaged and the part played
by the United States in the war which
ragged in 1912 and that which ended
in 1913"
AS cure for wars and the ills of the
world, the British visitors at Williams
town prescribe a commonwealth of
veloped under the auspices of the Brit
ish in conjunction with the United
States and which will ultimately in
clude other nations. Philip Kerr is now
urging the destruction of the divisions
which separate national existences
One of the features of the institutes
meetings has been the overwhelming
weight of banking opinion at the round
table conference on the rehabilitation
OF Europe in favor of making a large
loan to Germany, reducing Germany's
reparation bill and canceling all or
part of the debts owed by the Allies to
the United States.
At the rehabilitation round table,
where banking influences predominant,
members of the institute have been
urged to join in generous settlement
of both reparations and the inter
Allied debt questions, but the confer
ence under former Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury Oscar T. Crosby has
shown opposition to these sentiments
Questions Unanswered.
recent phenomenon of institute
meetings has been the fact that both
the banking and British delegates have
ceased to attend Mr.. Crosby's confer
ence, where they were challenged to fill
in the details Of their program. Among
the questions asked by Mr.. Crosby
which have gone by default is the
fcllowing:
Upon the assumption, as affirmed
here by the bankers, at the round table
on the rehabilitation of Europe, that it
is possible for Germany in her present
weakened condition to pay $50O,OO0, 900
per annum to the Allies, how can it be
made out that these allies who are in a
stronger position and have this $780,
10000 from Germany are able to pay
the United States nothing at all?
also on the assumption that Amer
lca is to lend money to Germany to paw
France, how is France to receive this
money except in gold, and how is Amer
lea to pay it to her without weakening
the basis of our currency?"