Evening star., 1926-09-26
ARMS CONFERENCE
DECLARED DISTANT
What America Needs at
Geneva. Her len Says of Glib.
son. Is a e-0eteCtIng Ear.
BY M.A,NsLIIAN HARDEN.

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Special T, ~. a 't m sta
BERLIN. Ser .en>her ci.-Do Amer
teams know The fable O! the heart
that told It's posse. or Whenever ne
vas being ned TO- IT MIR. Hugh Glib
son, Americas delegate at Geneva.
had posses .cd such an ear he would
have avoided the unpleasant feeling
OF being ''nambooz.ed.
Speaking confidentially, promi-
nent European could not deny that
the disarm .ment commission had ap-
piled the brakes t:eacherously TO It's
work hu, n. declared that was neces-
sary in olri.. to attain the aim of Sc
curing peace.
"Because the American ut home
gees Italians. f'lenchmen. Germans.
Irishmen and Poles living peacefully
together, Ii Is easy ior MN TO make
the mistake OF believing that this also
would be attainahle in Europe. il peo-
pie there Mere only deprived OF thelr
weapons nc said.
Reparations. Security. Disarmament.
But here history. with all it's ro-
nanticism, and dynastiC, strategic
and nationalist traditions. has
hampering effect. And even IN the
eighth wear after the war the series
remains regnable-reparations Sc
curity. disarmament.
For fear of anSering a big creditor
one never tells him the truth, feeds
him daily with applause and gets
ones own back by secretly Sabotaging
the creditors humane plans, Which
would hardly be helped by conflsca
tion and prohibition of the weapons
heretofore employed. for the most
inoportan, weapons henreforth will be
Chemicals and il is impossible to pre-
vent their rapid and taclie pfoduc-
ton"
Such words explain why nothing
has happened to the private armd-
ment Industry which Was so loudly
condemned at the time of the conctu'
sion of the peace treaty: why Inc con-
vention concerning trade IN arms mas
been ratified only by France ana Ven
ezuela. and why the very decision 10
discuss the armament question in a
preliminary conference in the sum
rner of 1927 could he adopted only
after heated debate. +
Difficulties Ahead.
It requires no gft of prophecy TO
realize that even next year thls
snail's pace will not he succeeded by
decent tempo, unless mednWhlle
France receives the security. which
England and America refuse 10 give
her. and which she now hopes 10 op'
tain as fruits Of Locarno.ThlorN. ana
unless, in the second place, Italy re
ceives for her surplus population wide
colonization territory and seat In
the first rank of the great powers;
and unless. in the third place. Russia
accepts the failure of her European
policies without severe commissions
that affect her neighbors.
These conditions are not frankly eX'
pressed-eXcept when some minister
intoxicated by alcohol or vanity, talks
out Of school but the lie-detecting
ear cannot be deceived by the greatest
food Of phrases and words. And since
TODAY even the heroes Of tables have
studied the fundamentals Of psyche
ANALYTICAL actions. they are able from
the patients statements to make their
diagnosis Of events forgotten by him
and of his subconscious impulses.
Should Read Freud.
II Mr.. Gibson will have Prof
Freuds newest book concerning
ANALYSIS of laymen sent TO Geneva. he
will find In il advice never to tell the
patient the meaning Of the analysis,
since the patient would be moved
thereby to opposition and anger. The
analyst must wait until the subject
can proceed farther under the an
alyst's guidance.
When will the impatient patient
Europe, reach that state? When the
lie-detecting ear shall have convinced
her OF the fruitlessness of an over
flow of rhetoric, and when the grim
necessity OF paying her debts and
bringing her economy into order com.
rels the discarding Of false conclu-
sions that have all too long concealed
the true picture of the real world and
its upward striving human will.
tCopyricht 1926