Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Trouble for Whole World Is
Possible Outcome, Says
Paris Observer.
Now or Never Is Time for a
Disarmament Move, He
Concludes Summary.
by GERVULI.E REACHE.


By Radio to The Star.
+ PARIS, January 8--Paris this week
has one eye on China and the other
on Central America. Newspapers of
| the Right and the Left have severely
condemned dollar diplomacy"
No nation in the world is strong
enough to halt the movement toward
self.det elimination VIII oh Characterizes
the twentieth century. If the United
States continues it's Intervention policy
il is certain that conflicts will arise
in which her present splendid pros
per ty will fall In ruins.
The contrast between American
policies on opposite sides of the Pacific
is most striking.
AT the very moment when the policy
of intervention in China is going
bankrupt in the United States. the
United States accent,iates that policy
toward Panama. Nicaragua ana
Mexico. Washington thinks II can
control the situation by pulling the
strings of it's puppets. Diaz and De la
Huerta. But II should reflect on
Great Britain's experience in China
where the policy of play both ends
against the middle has failed miserabiy
Question of Independence.
The british memorandum brings
the question of Chinese independence"
further forward than ever before.
More and more the Chinese are re-
bellng against foreign domination.
The Canton government protests at
Wash ngtoh Japan refuses to indorse
the memorandum. Disturbances break
out at Hankow. apparently provoked
by the Cheng cabinet itself. To IN
timidate Great Britain and compel II
to withdraw it's troops. And under
this threat the British concession must
be evacuated.
one day nUrtherners or southerners
viii seize shanghai, with it's trade ana
customs houses. and European inter
vention in China will come to an IN
glorious end.
Meanwhile, in Mexico, Panama and
Nicaragua the United States plays
with fire. which one section OF the
American presence so anti-Brltlsh
now eagerly fans with talk about an
Anglo-Saxon league.
Should the digging Of another
isthmian canal neutralize Latin Amer
lea by detaching 1t more and more
from the northern continent. then
farewell to the Monroe doctrine.
Washington would stand alone face to
face with q PanAsiatic leaue. This
would have two capital effects: First.
Japan would back the Central Ameri-
can republics against the United
States. Second, Americans, like the
English would be expelled from Chi
neSe markets.
May Turn Use Of Arms.
The arms furnished now to ephem-
eral dictators would be turned against
Americans. and from the Philippines
to Haiti would be fomented autono-
mist instructions against American
domination.
The American State Department is
carrying heavy responsibility, for the
decisions. ii. must make in the near
future will have weighty consequences
for the whole world as well as the
United states.
Now or never is the time to study
disarmament from every practical
viewpoint. War, that plague of the
world, has transferred it's breeding
place to the Pacific. Warships plough
those waters. Munitions stores and
fleet bases are being developed on
every hand. Instructions are insti-
gated Threats of revolution sharpen
greedy appetites.
Position I'm Orient.
Who supplied the arms to the
combatants? What nation furnishes
whips with which it may some day
itself be scourged?
England is losing her privileged
position in the Orient, but the United
States does not seem likely to inherit
it. Just as, after the European war,
America. despite It's overwhelming
financial strength, could not supplant
7 Il h,,r
it lacked financiers with the necessary
technical knowledge. SO 1t cannot sup
plant Great Britain in China despite
it's unquestioned progress in the last
few years.
Japan is too watchful of her in
terests not to reap the best fruits of
the Chinese war especially since the
United states has it's ha nds plentifully
laden with It's Central American
troubles.
Copyright. 1927