Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-15
ARMISTICE DAY AND THE FUTURE.

Five years ago, with shouts of joy, the nations hailed the ar
mistice as the harbinger of peace, returning to a war-torn world.
And today. France has nearly one million men under arms,
holds military sway over a considerable section of Germany, seek
ing to force the German people to keep their pledges of indem-
mites.
In Germany the old royalists still plot to regain control of the
country. Only last week Ludendorff, who, with Won Hindenburg,
commanded for the Kaiser the German armies in the world war,
proclaimed a monarchy, but the uprising was suppressed by the
present government. The Crown Prince has been granted per-
mission to return to Germany. The country is on the verge of civil
war, which may result in the return of the Kaiser, thus restoring
in effect, conditions which prevailed before the Mailman of Berlin
began his war to conquer the world.
England gazes with apprehensive eyes on the rise of French
military power and the threat of fresh commissions in Central
Europe; on an Ireland, where, despite the re-establishment of a
sort of tranquility, the jails still overflow with prisoners on seeth-
ing unrest in India.
Italy, her troops at grips with rebenious natives in colonial
Africa, already has once imperned the Old Worlds safety through
the imperiahstic policy of her virtual dictator, Mussolni, against
whose rule domestic discomfort slowly gains strength, despite CEN
sorship, oppression, DEGREES and violence.
In Spain another military dictator recently elevated to author
iy by virtue of a near revolution, fulfils his pledge to increase the
vgor of Spanish warfare in Morocco.
Greese, defeated by Turkey, forced to pay heavy indemnity
and submit to humiliating conditions exacted by Italy for an of
Tense no attempt was made to prove against her, stares economic
ruin in the face and struggles weakly to stave off revolution.
Turkey, driven from Europe, has won her way back by the
sword and again endangers Near Eastern stability.
Bulgaria, her peasant Premier overthrow and killed, has put .
down one attempt at counter revolution and remains in the hands
of a mnitaristic governmental group.
Hungary, with a military dictator at the helm, eagerly awaits
the chance to win back by a fresh resort to force what she lost in |
the world war. II
Jugo-Slavia, like Rumania, alert against Hungarian aggres-
sion, disputes with Italy for an Adriatic port and watches the Bull.
garian miitaristic regime jealousy. /
Poland, grit for war, keeps an uneasy glance on the soviet
power to the eastward. /
fussias communlstic autocracy, admittedly representing only I
a minority, maintains itself only by the most cruel and unjust !
force within and schemes for an extension of its social and econom-
&c doctrines beyond its present jurisdiction. !
CHINA is still torn by dssention between onrth and south and +
banditry and local disturbance in every quarter. =
Japan, overwhelmed by earthquake losses, strives to conceal =
trouble with Koreans in the area of the disasters even while her =
still tottered, and continues, since an outlet for her swarm =
ng millions she must have-to plan for expansion in the Orient. +
Technical experts loaned by the United States government =
ire aiding Brazil in building a navy for the avowed purpose of :
Latin America, while Argentina already arms to meet =
MS menace from her neighbor, and the entire Spanish press of the :
SCOTS at the policy of a country which, protesting to +
work for disarmament in the old world, assists in starting exactly -
similar race in the new world. s.
ouch is ABOUT the conditions existing in a troubled world on g
he fifth anniversary of Peace. =