Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-05
EUROPEANS hate
AMERICA, DECLARES
SENATOR CARAWAY
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
40S Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER

world is in a deplOraDle mess, dH-
other conflagration is inevitable I'M
less something is quickly done; there
ia general hatred or distrust of
America, and France is particular
ly bitter; France should be told to
cut down her military establish
s--ments, such, in brief, are the i'm
- pressions gained by Senator Thadeus
II. Caraway, Of Arkansas, after sew
eral weeks in Europe. Senator Cara
: way, like Senator William j. Har-
ris, of Georgia, went as delegate
to the interparliamentary union for
peace held at Vienna. Senator Har-
Iris is now en- route back to America.
Returning a few days in advance,
Senator Caraway drew rather
gloomy picture of European affairs,
and his impressions Of Europe were
anything but peace-like. Discussing
European conditions, Senator Cara
way said to The Journal correspond
emit:
Bitter Towards America
s2~ ''The ruling passions are hatred,
bitterness and jealousy. France hates
England and England hates her, but
In fact, they all hate America, who
is used by the politicians as the
goat for placing tho blame for any
thing and everything that goes
wrong.
1.-THE man on the street believes
what the politicians tell him. He
believes that America is selfish and
greedy, and that she would not help
the world if she could
The senator said he was persuaded
that France is an absolute menace
to whatever chances there are for
peace. She is keeping her military
s strength together in the belief that
: SShe will be the master of the world
after another great war. There is
more public Improvement going on
in France today than there is in
: : America, the senator continued.
81 They are building comprehensive
and expensive systems of new high
3 ways; they are building railroads;
3 are spending millions of francs on
: river and harbor improvements, and
: are working on many other projects
: which they would not have dared to
have attempted, because of the huge
: expense, before the war. With a
tdeficit of 13,000,000,000 francs,
France is spending 10000, 900 900 for
improvements and then bowling that
she cannot pay her debts to Amer
ica," the Arkansas senator said.
The devastated area, which was
swept clean by the armies in the
great war, has been restored fully
Is per cent, while the farmers liv-
ing on the restored land have much
..sbetter homes than they had before,
better even than that owned by the
average American farmers. These
. homes are built, he said. not with the
expectation of paying for them.
but with the expectation Of
collecting the cost from Germany.
France is expecting and is insisting
upon collecting all that was allowed
. her by the treaty of Versailles, and
yet is unwilling to pay her interna-
I tional debts.
Message for CIemenceau
''The best service this country
could perform" Senator Caraway
said. would be to tell France that
! we are perfectly willing to stand
a reasonable amount of abuse from
local politicians to cover up their
own failures, but that we are not
going to sit quiet and be lied about,
and that we expect France to cut
down her military establishments;
bring her expenses within her rev.
. enues and pay her debt to the United
States. There is no sense in this
country carrying Europe, and then
letting Europe spend it's money to
. Keep thousands Of soldiers in uni
form.
81 hope" he added, chat some
body tells Clemenceau when he
comes over here how thoroughly
France misunderstands America"
The complete collapse of Germany,
Austria and Hungary and some 9TH
er countries, appears inevitable, the
senator said. Vienna has only a
three days supply of food at any
one time, while the whole country
could not scrape up more than thirty
days supply. AS for fuel, there is
none, he said, and there seems little
. prospect of getting any for this win
ter.
Another angle on the hatred bust.
ness" the senator said, is the fact
. that Italy hates France twice as
much as she did Germany. Czecho.
! Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia and Italy all
have their armies on their frontiers
waiting for the other to cross when
THE fireworks will begin.
France and Turkey
: The Turkish situation, which since
has reached the acute stage, was
just developing when Senator Cara.
: way left Europe. Everybody, ne
said, believed at that time there was
= some kind Of an understanding be.
= tween France and Turkey that went
( further than a treaty. They said in
: France:
{ Nov, we've got England where
: we want her; we've got her embroil
+ ed, and something is going to hap
E pen."
\ Senator Caraway said he was a
Z little disappointed at the sessions OF
: the interparlimentary union. Only
! three questions of any Importance
were discussed at the meetings, he
recalled.
: England had a great desire fol
Z the adoption of a strong resolution
against CONSUMPTION in time Of
peace. A number of countries want
ed strong expression in favor o,
minorities - European minoritie!
with which the old world abounds
while as a side issue the matter O
cancellation Of international debt.
constantly bobbed up. The only 9th
er question of Importance discussed
was resolution in favor OF fre,
trade and the abandonment Of Gus
Z TOMS