The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-15


Hut iu such a Europe the small
peoples who have just come tp lib
erty would alowly but surely sink
into now sCryitude. Poland would
again be divided between the Ger
mans and the Russians, the Czechs
would again come under German
Prussian this time instead os Aus
triun control. Rumnaia would be
even moro subsery liant TO Berlin
than she was before the World war
and the Latins uf Bes1rabia wound
go back TO Russia. In a word. pO
litcal liberty would be sacrificed to
economic efficiency. This is what
the application OF British ideas
would mean.
Aud in such a new Europe, which
would be In reality "a reversiuu to the
old, with the Austrian empire Of
yesterday largely assigned 10 Ger
many France would share the fate
OF the uationalitics OF the "succcg-
sion states ana become quite neg
ligible, No large part of the In
creased economic prosperity would
come her way. She does not need
the markets of middle Europe. che
does not need the food of Russls
Her security would disappear Tor
she would face a Germany OF more
than 1O0,0Oo,O0O Of people with not
more than 100000 on her own
soil Even Holland and Belgium
would soon drift into this economic
'superstate, German controlled, which
would arise In the center OF Europe.
Now France aud the "coplcs Of
the succession states" have no
dc-irc and no Intention ofspcrmit-
ting this supcrstatc To he created.
THlk about mllitarism has gone 10
great lengths In the United States.
hUtG sslg
probation of the actual issues IN
Europe. You have to see that two
things are In direct clash. the
principle of economic efficiency.
Britain cares nothing for the ma
tional in ,tlnCts or aspirations OF
the newly liberated peoples, for
the simple reason tlint her own
existence turns ON the economic
not the nutionalistiC conditions of
Europe. France cares little for
the economic. for she IL sufficient
unto herself economically. feeds
her population and lives with little
regard To what goes ON In the mar
Lcts Of the world.
France has set out To make Eu
rope safe for her own people and
for -he smaller peoples, because n
she can pun the new states through
! their first years, she believes they
and when that day comes the dan
ger OF German attack upon France,
/ of German domination in Europe
will have vanished. Her army us
| the insurance OF the small states,
/ but their armies are "a detail In the
scheme and present aid to France
In case of German aggression.
Britain would disband the armies,
bring economic system back at the
a 81 tHsla tVags A.
would open the ways TO commerce
at the expense of the patriotic hopes
Of the several nations which have
lust won free Of tyranny and arc
painfully at work erecting national
foundations. II the French system
prevails. Britain will suffer terri
Bile dimlnution in population ana
prosperity. Millions OF hcr people
will have to migrate because they
can no longer find work at home
But n the British policy prevails
Poland. Rumania, Czecho-Slovakin
and Jugo-Slavla may endure but q
brief time and the French stay on
1.-THE Rhine be measured by "a Few
years.
Britain sees Europe as an eco
,nomic problem. France II pollti'
|Cal problem. The British solution
poems 10 France TO promise politi'
cal ruin. not only Ia France bu'
10 all the smaller nntunalues, wh'
see the thing as do the Frcnch. Bu'
the British see that II the French
view prevails, II the Frencn army
CONTINUES 20 hold down the German
giant, while the smaller states gel
strength but postpone economic re-
construction, then the outlook ioi
Britain f. grim In the extreme.
Hence il must be obvious that il
will not be easy TO break the Frcnci
position. France has her army, sh'
has her Polish alliance and PoI1nr
Is united with many Of the othel
states by interloCking alliances. fnl
three years the British have Spugh
to break the French holds Ih"l
tried at Paris. they tried ever
harder i'm Washington in thr Iat'
conference. seeking to got America
assistance I'm forcing a reduction A."
the French army. Failing ther" the!
encountered the submarine, whirl
was the final retOrt Of France TO IN
continued British assault upon IN
b French army.
Americans are prone TO accept t"
: readily all the talk about Frencl
militarism and TO overlook the root
OF French policy ON tho Conilnen
and Of British policy of of H.. IN
British attach upon the FrencI
} army is not based upon "a militar
fear Of France The British do no
: expect to be attacked. But they be
Neve and ! think with reaspnabl
: correctness that az long az Franc
, | Keeps her army she VIII d0minat
! Europe in the sense that she wi
back the nationalism OF the yariou
. succession states. And by backin
them she will postpone that Eurl
|, pean construction under German dl
y rcc.ion which seems TO tho Briils
the one promise OF escape from thei
. own present terrible plight.
A The truth, not very clearly per
, ceived Ia America is that the F'rclc
A have the British by the throa
- France Is recovering from the wa
A quite rapidly, Britain Is not. oecaus
= French recovery depends upo
a France alone, while British recover
. depends upon the restoration of Gee
70 uomiC order In countries far out-id
q OF British control 70 "a consider
able extent France can EustpOn
such recovery 10 certain degrc
O her policy prohibits such recover
z since the rise OF the separate state
= who are iu a degree her wards pre-
# Cludcs any restoration Of econom
d unity In any useful time " Fran,
T.. persists, II Britain cannot alOr
a or with the aid Of America shat