Evening star., 1928-10-14
SEES EUROPEAN PEACE
HJNCING ON PARIS PACT
Dr.. Otto Hocizsch Says Disarmament,
Security and Arbitration Must Be
Applied by League of Nations.

! clsred her readiness to conclude the
/ pact proposed. but added that such a
! pact would lead to practical results only
/ If universal disarmament were carried
out and the possibilities of settling in
ternational differences were carefully
/ developed. The same view was stressed
on"e more by DR.. Stresemann at Hell
dH'b"re. and in doing so he established
what we believe tn b. Cermany's real
9nd pra aticallv undivided conviction
concerning the great project emanating
from North America.
Germany on May 5 concluded with
North America treatv Of arbitrs tion
which has bcen ratified bv the Senate
i>ut net vet by the Reichstas 1t is
r.cds'ed upon the kindred Franco
A~lcrican arrangement and contains all
he clements of the we'll known Bryan
tTcstv. HIRE cnce more the difficult
position of Great Britain is revealed.
In May. when America offered her a
new treatr 10 replace the old one eXpir-
ing at the end of July. Sir Austen
Chamberlain stated that the matter
would necessi.ate protractsd nesotia-
tons. Germany'5 position, on the other
hand Is simple and strong. though any,
thing but easy. Germanys interests
run parallel with those of America
Summarizing, if / may. in a few
short sentences: Bolshevism can >cnly
be f2ttered by lettering war Bolshe-
vism. with its dangers for civilization,
for Europe and for the world. cannot be
throttled by eeitation or by policy
which cnd~evors TO set up by force a
non Communist regime in Russia. Such
an ioce is urres lizab'e. I tell you so SIS
p German who has lived through that
evolution and who personally knows
only too we'll Russian Communism itself
IF. for the mere sake of example.
Italy end France or Poland and Lithu-
ania. should become involved in hostili-
ties and the Leagde of Nations had
exhausted all its means of preserving
peace, the rest OF Europe would not
quietly look on AS at prize fight. All
the other powers would either stimuli
taneously or one after the cther ioin
in the fray simply because the rela-
tions Of the various states are now so
intimately linked together. Such war
complications would pave the way for
the spread of Communism to all co,n-
tries-not merely to Germany and Po-
land but to the west of Europe and
even to Great Britain. The spirits of
the deep have been coniured up. and
those of US VINO have experienced the
SFNAieN Va Vic sJaot OSCGuS ana n I1alI
appreciate to the full the meaning of
that beautiful French novel on the
Russian Revolution. "Quand la Tarre
Trembia'
The great destiny reserved for tha
United States is therefore clear as the
day. l see her grasping that destiny
in her hands, and if. in describing to
you the home and foreign policies Of
my country, ! feel the satisfaction of
happiness. it is. above all. because It
has afforded me an opportunity of
sharing. so to speak. in the great move
ment proceeding from North America
and destined to initiate lasting peace
throughout the world Theory and
practice in this way will create. we al
earnestly hope. the fruitful soil for the
constructive ideas of peace and well
tare 50 necessary for every statesman
and every politician in every country of
the world