The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-06-28
Europe
By VIM. PHILIP sIMMS
NEA Service Writer


Wounds laid open by the World
War are not healing. They have only
turned into sores, with nerves exposed
and in danger of becoming chornic.
Europe and the world is farther
from peace today than they were &
year ago and much farther from peace
than they were the day the armistit
was signed in November, 1918.
All the elements for bringing on
crash of terrifying proportions are
present in Europe.
I have just landed back in America
after visiting IL different European
countries, where I talked with presi
dents and chancellors, prime ministers
and dictators, generalissismos, bust
ness men and just plain folks, and
what l heard-not always for publica
tion--from all these is enough to make
your flesh creep.
There is scarcely country in Eur.
ope where the people are not in fer.
ment of unrest.
Before the war, Europe had 8
"Balkans"-a troublesome little war.
breeding section down in it's south.
eastern corner.
Now all Europe is a Balkans. The
principal reason why hostilities do
not commence at once is that most
OF the powers. are afraid to make the
first move, because of their size. of in.
ternal conditions, and the rest do not
think the moment propitious.
Europe is like a room full of bic
and little burglars qHarreling over
small amount of swag. The little
fellows are afraid to start anything
but if somebody throws a brick at
the lamp and puts out the light, they
are all ready to pitch in, hoping, in
the general melee, to get away with
something.
All Want Peace.
The one great yearn of Europe is
for peace. The people want to 90
back to work with a feeling Of security
without the canker of fear of war
and irvasions gnawing at their vitals
by day and by night and keeping
them from earning their daily bread.
The one great obstacle to peace is
the legacy of hate left to every man,
woman and child in Europe by the
World War. This and the natural
suspicion each nation has for anv
other European nation.
The one great need of Europe Is
for some great moral force to make
its presence felt among the hate-and-
suspicion-filled countries and point out
a road to settlement. AS things stand
now, there is not disinterested power
among them. Each nation is out for IT.
self and itself alone, and all the rest
know it.
Look To U. S.
The League of Nations has done
much good in Europe despite unheard-
of handicaps. But it is powerless in
this instance for the simple reason
that there is not one out standing
member of the league which is not at
the same time, up to its eyebrows in
the quarrel itself.
No impartial observer can Journey
through Europe as did, and talk
WIN POAII1Sdl leduSFS over Cl6fG, all
the time retaining a perfectly open
mind, without realizing the latent in
fuence the United States has for peace
in Europe and the world-in the league
or out of it.
Everywhere I have been I have
found people watching the United
States and trying to guess its next
move. Europe is unanimous on lone
thing at least, and that is if America
chad remained in Europe until real
peace had come" using her stipend
Gus influence as an arbiter between
the more selfish powers, the world
would long ago have settled down to
work.
Most men with whom I talked still
believe the United States could bring
the nations together if it would take
the initiative. But most, to be per-
fectly honest, have about lost faith
in this ever happening.
England and France have looked
horns in what may prove to. be a life