The Denver Jewish news., 1923-02-07
Europe and Pales-
tine on the Way
BY DIR. STEPHEN S. WISE.

Is the veriest commonplace. But 10
Americans know what unrest means!
For us unrest has reference chiefly TO
political questions which our Congress,
or the Executive, can for II time answer
rightly or wrongly. There is move
ment in industry and again slackness
in commerce. hut certain things are
settled ON the continent nothing is
settled For us the dollar is II dollar.
but in ermany and Austria and even In
France and Italy II mark or krone or
frame is a fraction of II dollar shifting
and varying in value from hour to hour
and this variation. narrow or wide,
is the financial index of such feverisl
unrest as is panicky And perhaps the
hardest thing to bear is the conscious
ness that things are being fixed and de-
tcrmined from without national boun-
laries. England is as ever nearest To
sanity and poise. England is not ns
England was, but one gets sense OF
stability and order in England upon
which no intoxication of victory Is suf-
ItGtu III Wiz NiNi'~ tiiht van
or nations had lost half as well as
England has won. in France there is
fear. in Germany bitterness. i'll Austria
despair. hut in England none of these
Just the old resolution to carry on.
England perhaps thinking things thru
for the whole world because accustOm-
ed to bear the burdens of half the
world.
When last in France in January of
1919 at the opening of the Peace Con
ference. one felt a sense of liberation
and even of elation. That is gone. The
apple of triumph seems to have turned
to ashes in the mouth OF France. One
feels that over France has come the
realization that the struggle and the
sacrifice and the victory have been un-
nvailing. France has grown unsure
touching her allies in arms and. un-
thinkable though it be. is being urged
quietly for time by certain political
groups TO reach II working and saving
agreement with Germnny.
And Frnnce has cause to feel sick
mt heart Whether with good reason
or not. France knows that she is mi
equal to another struggle and believes
TINT Germany with her far larger pop
ulation has the will and may speedily
attain the power to give battle anew.
France feels tint her recent allies are
not too definitely to he counted upon
! for support in all cireuhiatnnces Again,
the waste places of France remain un-
builded. Desolation still marks that
once lovely area Of France over which
armies met and fought. Rheims Cathc-
tlrul is no, so much reminder of BOche
brutality or Il warning to the future as
II gesture of incertitude touching the
issue of Frances morrow. To the
omniScient she may seem unwise in the
manner in which she strives for secur-
ity-but security France must have.
Her losses and her sacrifices warrant
this determination. II was at rather
small luncheon and dinner parties in
Paris within twcnty-four hours. AT
lunch the following day. the hostess
was the war-widow of most gifted
young musician. One of the guests had
lost son and still another mourned
the loss of II brave son and her daugh-
ter's husband France is not less for
giving than Germany and relatively has
suffered far greater losses.
Germany strikes one with mingled
feelings of disappointment and hope.
One cannot reasonably expect tifty-five
or sixty millions of people to beat their
breasts in anguish or remorse and that
continually And yet one would have
lliked to have seen one German exhibit
respecting the late Kaiser something
of the illimitable wrath felt and utter
ed semper ct ubiIue tab omnibus by
I Germany toward former President
/ Wilson. The totality of German BIT
terness is reserved for and centered up
ON him He tricked us, they say. ~
though German victory had been GER
tain or almost likely until Germany
yielded to the lure of tile Wilson
promises. That Germany was at the
time of the Armistice on the eye of the
l most terrible disaster in military his
4 tory is forgotten by the people or else
was never known, or. likcliest of all.
has with Prussian thoroughncss of
RECOMMENDATION been waved aside.
That Germany believes itself robbed
Of victory rather than crushed by de-
! feat is bad for itself and almost as
bad for the rest of the world. Sense
of guilt there is none among the peo-
/ pfc. and having diSavowcd its possibly
gnilty rulers ii is felt that there should
nor allotment of reparatiOn costs. Some
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