The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-04-27
4 NEW EUROPEAN WAR

Ia d. u -inT tne kuS-OIerm1n eco
r,M', a@rccmeni. Frank II. Simond'
water. pfophr-ird new war You Eave
q. cacr Nr. >imond- commented. "A
nc.. European coaIiiion-Ru--ia. Ger.
many. Hungary. and Bulgaria on the one
hand. AID France. with Poland and the
lii,lc entente states of Rumania. Czecho.
NloyaAia. and Jugo-Slavil on the other.
Bat ;'li-. after all. Is l9lI,-
That the new agreement has vast
l'-.:..g apon he European politics in the
i-'.5c j. certain. To conclude thai il
would at one result in alliances and con
.lutnily nlriIrr. however is premature
/ ir new lg~cemrni. nn the whole. l. de
i,a-:-r in nature. II is an offspring Of
the Genoa Conference With Frnace de-
,ctnincd what not To do and with Llayd
Cc..gc G,icrm:acl what to do. Russia and
Germany. though participants at the Con
ference. are lett in a depIorable position.
Ilcg fear thai ihrs are To be dictartrd
D.. and 10 be- imposed upon. In order to
agpi ihi- ihcy r,.-ori To concerted a,iion-
10 El-taLl agreement and 10 moral al
liaarc
Eat this does not neccssifaie coalitions.
&: wlrllre. \ new European war if there
Lc." io be- any. would be a direct out
c.:ne Of military preparedness, not Of
peaceful and defensive agreement. or even
aliiances Europe has had bad. immu.
table. tradition. This tradition is not al
lance Lat miliiancy, Had not Germany
been preparing-al preparing for the
w1rsi. after the triumph Of 1871, always
fearing that France would recover and
rcyorgc herself? Had not millions and
millions Of marks-not paper marks. as
the a:c ow-been appropriated for land
aad u'cln armamcnis? Had not guns
b,ra built for all these wears. covering
ranges of miles and miles. aiming at de-
slroying Paris from the German lne2
Had rot submarine after submarine been
launched. secretly. hoping to blockade
France. or possibly England. whenever the
cccasioa came? Had not scientific gen
iusos wasted their life and energy. for the
.o!c purpose Of discovering deadly gases.
oI inycnling gigantic aircrafis. and high
explosives?
hnd one day in 1914. the whole thing
was taken into account and Germany
rclpcd what she had sown. And had not.
f.ur wears later. the erstwhile militant
rowcr. badly defeated and sunken into
~ s.s.c G.! oblivion and chaos. submitted
peacefully 10 the terms dictated by those
countries for whom she had always been
preparing. but against whom the painful
preparations proved to be insufficient and
futile? And is not. right at the present
mnmeni, some other country in Europe.
Eayine once fought gallanily against Ger
many. following the same footsteps of the
Germans. fearing and suspeciing. and
arming-and arming increasingly?
Here. NOT in the Russo-Cerman agree
mcai, is Whc.e the war is breeding. Here. |
MI in the Russo.Germsn agreement. is |
Nnrre the danger Is most eminent. Some |
ihiag must Ice done to check this tendency |
Ia inccs,ani land armament. To turn
from the mIin issue only to take account |
Of the minor ones-ihe Russo-Cerman
aerermeni. for example-would not carry
Europe i long way in the direction of
economir reconstruction. and would no,
prevent the tragic occurrence which NAV
threaten the future of the Continent.