Evening star., 1927-05-15
i. S. FLYERS SURE
+. OF PARIS WELCOME
Greeting to Be as EnthusiaS-
tic as That Planned Here
for NungeSser.
BY GERVILLE REACHE.

By Radio TO The Star,
PARIS. Nav 14.--Foreign Minister
BRAND has admirably interpreted
French sentiment regarding the touch
ing manifestations of sympathy IN
9. the United States toward Capts,
NungesSer and Coli in their heroic but
ilhstarred adventure.
The New York crowds which vainly
awaited the White Birds arrival: the
Government which ordered the coast
fleet to join in the search for them;
the sailors and aYiatorS who. despite
rampestS. went to their aid, all are
"fre sports in French eyes.
~ II aay OF the American flyers reach
Paris they Will he received as en-
Enthusiastically as Nungesser would
have been received in New York
. Mankind loves to honor heroic deeds
and there is 10 nobler sentiment, if
ii can be kept pure of that meanness
which is often fostered by ignorance.
misunderstanding Explained.
The lack Of mutual understanding
=. between the two sides of the Atlantic
often is wondered at. 1t is not be-
'eause we do not speak the same Ian
Euage. but because often we do not
know the whole truth.
The French weather bureau did not
ing over the Atlantic. Apparently it
failed 10 ask information from the
American bureau or from ships at sea.
- If this is true, it shows an unpardon-
+, able triviality. and makes the French
=. bureau responsible for sending the two
,aheroes into frightful peril.
> But if we did not know what the
weather was a few miles off shore, how
could our two peoples know what emo
tions were surging in each others
hearts? Scenes of chauvinism were
enacted in Paris, which show to what
lengths big city crowds can go when
agoaded by misleading newspaper re-
ports.
The annual Jeanne dare festival
last sunday excited far less disturb.
ance. This festival, which has kept it's
clerical nationalist character, never
produced anything but a sensation of
strange uneasiness. The crowds are
! IlyStif1ed at seeing the church which
Burned Jeanne now beatifying her and
royalists acclaiming the peasant girl
whom King betrayed.
=. Apparently the Steel Helmet demon
. stration in Berlin was no more enthu-
siastic than the Jean de'Arc festival
n Paris. The generation which fought
: "a useless war seems not anxious to be-
gin it again in either country and we
probably will have to wait a new gen.
GRAFTON before peoples can be misled
49, it@EoJae" such conflict.
Ignorance Not All.
! Ignorance, however, is not the only
!. eource of human woes. Often when
+ we know what is the matter we are
! Incapable of remedying things. Thus
. the Geneva Economic Conference ad-
rl1its the European system of customs
barriers is detestable, but instead of
radically eliminating unhealthy COM
petition, we choose the path of un-
/, regulated industrial understandings
and iil-defined cartels, while two in
ternationales - communist and So
cialist-carTy on family quarrel for
the amusement of the spectators.
Capt. Nungesser's failure symbolizes
the worlds incapacity thus far to es-
tablish profound inter-relations be-
tween peoples. Even the wireless
,es which played its part in the tragedy,
served principally to deceive. Yet
4 man can learn to hate less only by
knowing each other better.
1Ss Peace will reign when the, moral
distance between world capitals be-
,Tcomes no greater than that between
neighboring villages; when luen can
I more easily travel from one distant
!, country to another and when, with
the aid of the telephone, quarrels now
envenomed by diplomatic notes can
he appeased by simple, human con-
versation.
(Copyright 1927