San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
EUROPE REELS
UNDER BLOW
Of RUHR MOVE
Every Little Nation May
Follow Lead Of
France.
AMERICA MIGHT HELP
Impossible Action Of U. 5.
Could Solve Prob
lem. rs
AMERICA MIGHT HELP
nv NORMAN Fl. MATsON,

By NORMAN H. MATSON.
Copyright, by The San Antonio Light
Vienna, Feb. 1.-THE blow struck
By France against Germany has sent
Central Europe Keeling, Austrian in
dustry, for instane, was slowing down
toward q dead stop when one mark
bought twelve kronen. Austrian sales
men scrambling for orders in the BAL
kans, Hungary and Poland were los
ing customer after customer to the
under-bidding Germans. With the
mark plunging down to the level OF
the kronen competition becomes in
possible. In Austrian cities unem-
ployment, already nearing the social
danger point increases steadily and
rapidly.
But this immediate economic In
Jury, felt not only By Austria, OF
course, but throughout Central and
Southeastern Europe, Ii probably not
the worst effect Of the war In the
Ruhr.H The political effect promises
70 be little short of ruinous. This part
of the world 10 dotted with Rhine
lands Of its own. France has set the
precedent There In evidence that the
little nations will not long hesitate
to demonstrate that the lesson has
been learned.
Era Of ths Putsh
Now comes the EZRA Of the putsh"
IN the opinion of Count Michael Kar-
olyi, former premier Of Hungary, dur
ing the war leader Of the opposition
there, opponent Of his country's al
lance with Germany in the war and
now an exile In Ragussa, Joguslavis.
] talked with him in the little Dor
der town Of Marburg.
"The Ruhr occupation he said.
sIs in my opinion the knockout blow
fol, European civilization As We know
it.<
There was hope onca That was
when your country had two million
fresh troops In Europe, held the moral
leadership Of the world and was the
worlds banker. Had America then
said, make a decent peace, peace
of understanding and no humbug,'
Europe would have obeyed.
Might Help Yet.
SThe only possible peace was one
that would have assisted the rapid
Mobilization Of Germany and Rus
STA. Despite the destruction wrought
by those years of catastrophe peace,
the United States might, yet make
reconstruction possible. Might, II you
accept what consider an impossible
hypothesis.
will America say to herself:
Here, 1 am the richest nation in the
world. Ny dollar is worth 10000
Austrian kronen, 1900 German
marks, millions Of rubles. / may for
- H. -fnkna4 -ak,Ay. IN ShaI
world: but while my neighbors starye,
my own prosperity must slowly decay.
j must give, give and give; must
help my neighbors become as pros
porous as I / deliberately, by my own
action, not only reduce the value Of
my dollar to its normal standard
abroad. but cut its home value in
two
@This, put IN its dmplest terms,
10 the real decision that the United
States il asked to make. 1t Is eoneeiv-
able that any nation should make such
. decision? It is not
"A Not Fancied Question.
, The question Of saving Europe h
not q financial, but political economic
question. More loans are useless.
Europe needs fundamental reconstruc-
ton. ] think capitalism In Europe
: a. beyond saving"
French troops enter Germany and
seiss property without q declaration
Of war; continued Karolyi "This Is
3 The new warfare There Il much
: talk Of new wars, but ! do not zee
bow there can be large scale war as
siws learned It from 1914 to 1918 The
nations ha,s neither resources nor
men. But certainly We are entering
m era Of many Just such eoups a
nat made b. France In the Rhine
aand. This win not b war, but win
+ not Be peaes either.
Il think there may b q BolSheyist
ksvolution In Germany. Perhaps not.
Il makes little difference whether the
struggle aginst France Is made under
nationalist or communist banners, the
. destruction win be as complete.H