Evening star., 1923-08-13
Europe Under War Clouds
luminous as Those of 1914
american Investigators Glad This COur.
/ try Is 5000 Miles A,vay With Nations
& Gone Crazy IL, Clash OF Interests.

| for booty these captains of industry
manipulate the parliaments and legis-
| lative bodies of Europe surely as
the ventriloquist does the puppet on
| his knee. Newspapers right and left
are subsidized or controlled. With
one or two exceptions the words pub
| lie opinion" mean the tyranny of GER
tain groups who play upon popular
emotion the tunes that stimulate the
| dance of commercial or financial am
| billions.
That's why governments are so in
consistent and powerless, and that S
, why so many Americans, after peer
! ing behind the scenes. shake their
heads dubious'y, pack their luggage
! and thank God for the Atlantic ocean.
| At best this is a superficial conclu-
| sion. because Europe cannot, attempt
! spicide again as she did in 1914. with =
| out inturing the economic prosperity
| of the American people. The preacher
, who abandons his pulpit just because
most OF the people before him are sim
ners would not be adjudged a dis
| ciple of Christian endeavor The un-
! dying spirit of the crusade moves him
! to preach morality whether he gets
/ results at once-or.' perhaps. never.
! It's something at least to have tried.
Voice Of Reason Needed.
! Europe needs more than anything
| else voice of rea:r,f and not Il threa t
fof American power or an extension
of funds. Europe must. of course. be
! ultimately relfnanced by American
! private capital--in other words. by
/ American investors. but what Europe
/ does not realize is that the day OF that
: achievement will be subject TO indeh-
mite postponement so long. as Ameri
! cans. do not have confidence in Eu-
! rope.
: And what Is Europe doing to win
American confidence? Little indeed
/ For one thing there is no clear con-
/. ctption of what Europe must do be-
: fore American confidence can be
: gained. Europe needs a cleansing OF
! heart The camouilage of diplomatic
notes still hides the battle OF motives
, the clasp of financial and industrial
! interests. The commercial game
which helped SO much to plunge Eu-
! rope in battle nine years ago still
! goes on through manipulated govern
/ ments. while mothers look anxiously
whether they are raising more can
non fodder for the great catastrophe
| that's coming within another five OIL
! ten years if Europe continues its sui
, cidal pace of today.
! But can Europe fight so soon again:
, Isn't everybody exhausted? There Is
no exhaustion of hate or greed
! Hungry people grow desperate and
| fight hardest when their backs are
against the wall. Central Europe
mas NOT Yet reached tndt point, DuI
goaded on. it will soon begin to dis.
regard all governments and mis-
takenly seek to accomplish through
anarchy what democracy has failed
to do.
Domination by France.
France today stands IN NapoleoniC
domination of all Europe. The
present French army iS hettcr thar
that which the kaiser had in 1914
Three thousand airplanes-the great.
est air fleet made by the hand ot
man-Controls the air for the French
| It's a language of coercion, which ha.
brought Britain to a humiliating II
not perpleXed state of mind. Back
Of PoinCare is Foch and the French
general staff. the most wondcrfu
military institution the world has ever
! known.
All the countries of Europe Ru.
! mania, Poland, Czechoslavallia, Bel
gium, Jugoslavia have been armed by
France. The cry of the rFench is "se
curity." They have. indeed. achieved
! 1t. Will they stop there?
1t IS futile to talk about reparatior
or what Germany can pay till thai
question Of French motive is salts.
factorily answered. Certain section.
of the French populace would like tC
see peace made. Others are dreaminE
of commercial conquests. France
and Britain are drifting apart. The
opportunity OF America is to brnG
them together. President Coolidge
has an unprecedented chance to &C
down in history as the man who
made peace in the world five years
after the armistice that ended the
most terrible of all wars.
! (ConyriCht 1923