The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
U. s. LEADS WAY
 TO REHABILITATION
Memories Of Wars Bit terness Fade From
 Minds Of Statesmen
PACT OF LONDON
 MAIN ACHIEVEMENT
France, Germany And Britain Turn On Communism
 Within Borders

LONDON, Dec. 25.-Europe IS emerging from the vortex ot a1ter- war hatreds, and as 1924 comes to a close, it takes it's place Tn con temporary history as year or pc litical events all marking the grad nal. if sometimes cratic, progress of European civilization back to normalcy.
 Greater constructive achievement re- ,yorded world statesmen in 1924 than in any year since the outbreak ot the war.
 > Memories of wars bitterness faded sufficiently from the minds ot con tinental statesmen in 1924 to. permit tbe limited States to lead the way to a new start at rehabilitation by means oi the Dawes plan. The conception ana annlication of the Dawes plan were the outstanding happenings of 1924. mere were other tremendous events lnvoiVlhg poIitical upheavals and lnternatiohai realignments.
 Among these was the re-adm1ssion or outcast Germany to the society or ma lions. This was a direct result ot the Dawes plan.
 Russia Begins Comeback
 Another prodigal nation, the soviet union Russia of Lenip ana Irotsky; began a comeback toward international friendship by obtaining recognition from Italy. Great Britain and France. Whlie the soviet foreign office was gaming ss thes& diplomatic successes, Len1ns the founder of the workers state, died, ana Trotsky, his chief assistant, fell into disfavor with the new ruler of Russia.
 In France, the intensely nationalistic government of Raymond Poincare was succeeded by that of the socialist; Edouard Herriot. Across the channel Ramsay Macdonald, the first socialist premier of England, rose to power ana was ignominiously repudiated after less than a year in office when the conserva- tive landslide of November lifted Stanley Baldwin to the leadership ot conservative government.
 Mussolini's Hold Slipping
 The beginning of the end of Benito Mussolini's fascist rule of Italy IS a happening of the last two months or 1924. Months of angry criticism from his opponents have forced Mussollnl to promise a new election under modified electoral ways, and it is probably that his rule will end on the polling day.
 The birth and virtual death of an ambitious plan for world peace occurred at Geneva and Rome, respectively, Tn 1924. The league protocol for aroitra- tion. security and disarmament was au- spiciously born at Geneva, but failed to survive the unfayorable environment of Rome, where the league council meo to put it into effect.
 France, Germany and Great Britain celebrated the sixth year after the war by turning on communism within thelr borders. In the two latter countries, the expression of public opinion antag- onistic to the doctrines of Moscow came at the polls In France, the rebuke was administered by the socialist gov. ernment, which ordered deportation or all foreign born agitators. Italian, Span- ish and Russian communists were hustled across the borders. In Italy the reaction against communism came too years earlier, in October, 1922, when Mussolini's fascist legiOns marched on Rome and seized the government.
 Aimed At "Evangelists"
 This onslaugh on the teaching of com munism had nothing to do with the soviet union government as such. It was aimed at the unofficial disciples Of communism who claim citizenship Ill other countries, and especially at their methods of evangelism.
 The new year approaches with a promise of action on the two great nroblems of international relations disarmament and settlement of war debts.
 President Coolidge's intention to sum mon a disarmament conference, to meet in Washington in 1925. is accepted as sufficient assurance that such a meet ing will be convened, ana Great Britain is preparing plan for European se- curity which will be presented to the
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