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and sitting from excess population
Italy at the same time, as on other
occasions, argued for similar inter
national regulation which would make
II impossible for nations possessing
actual or proximate monopol1eS OF
raw materials to resort to embargoeS
or to such restrictions of output as
Great Britain has lately employed In
rubber to the great expense OF the
rest Of the world and of the United
States primarily.
U. S. Has Weapons.
For us, however, the British rub
ber policy has only moderate menace,
for in cotton and copper we have
weapons for reprisal, but for Italy,
lacking all three and every other es-
sential raw material, there is no
remedy. If we and the British, more
over, should pursue restrictive poll
cies within all three staples with re-
spect to all the world, save each
other, the Italian situation, for ex-
ample, would be unnistakable. There
fore, the Italians argue, necessarily,
there should be some protection
through international law for those
who have not against those who have,
so far as raw materials are concerned.
The absence of such regulation, Count
Cippico eloquently warns the world,
constitutes the greatest present and
future menace to world peace.
From the fall of Napoleon to the
Treaty of Versailles European peace
has been insecure because of the ra-
Cial rivalries of nations, big and lit
tie. The Germans and Italians have
fought for unity, France for integrity
Of frontiers; the Poles, the Serbs, the
Greeks, the Rumanians, the Czechs,
all have struggled for liberty. Now,
despite minor quarrels over frontiers,
all European races have achieved sub
stanial freedom and approximate
unity. Yet even before the last war,
which was largely occasioned by the
racial and national problems, the eco
nomic issue was rising to view and
did indeed contribute to its precipita-
ton
At Mercy of Neighbors.
Today, with the war over and rela-
tive peace restored, the fact is be-
coming obvious that a nation may be
free, may attain racial unity as well
as national independence within its
own frontiers, and yet be hopelessly
and helpleSSly at the mercy of neigh
bors whose territory IS richer in raw
materials or whose sons have been
more fortunate in establishing over
seas empires. Italy. for example,
having expelled the Austrian tyrant
from the last foot of Italian soil and
having replaced foreign by a national
rule, not only finds the existence of
her millions at the mercy of the fiat
of a British government, but discov-
ers herself lacking in all of those raw
materials which are the essential of
national industry, and not merely
destitute of all outlets under her own
flag for her surplus millions, but also
sees these millions turned away from
the shores of nations whose fields are
still vacant and whose factories still
require hands.
And. frankly and honestly, Count
Cippico puts this problem before his
American audience, the problem
which is not merely Italian, but Ger
man and Japanese in varying forms,
which would be British were 1t not
for the overseas dominions and tropi-
cal colonies. And the problem is
also essentially American and British
and French, for it is the problem of
those who have just as clearly as it
Is the problem of those who have not.
Nhak We ask Of Italy. Of Germany,