Evening star., 1928-02-19
GERMANY HOLDS HOPE
FOR UNION In EUROPE
Nation Seen as Only Power Abroad to
Understand Americas Economic
Force and Prosperity.

r.or!ty Of German industry, ot The Ger.
man mechanical. not the military, ma
chine, Of the German industrial meth
DDS, not Of the intellectual supremacy Of
the great and general staff
In Fighting Trim.
Thanks in cc usiderable part 10 Arler-
ican loans. Gel many has got its indus
trial machine Tito fighting trim. save
for its railroads. il needs no more large
loans. It is really for the grea. struggle,
but having its CTn machine in order il
only half the battle. There remains
the problem OF markets AID the in
mediate problem is the European mar
ket. Here IS a market big enough for
Europe. FOX the present az leas-. e it Is
not 10 be divided With the United States.
But this market IS not available Just
so long as economic facts are cubiect
to political interpretations. The Ger
man vien is that Europe. div!ced b.
tariff walls and torn by industrial and
economic competitions. cannot tace me
United States. not n1erelf a. home but
abroad, in Asia and South America,
which are the markets to- the future
Economically Europe mus unite or 20
under: that is the German argument
Would it pay for Germany 10 seek q
special status with the United States?
Ihe poItlCdi tSIHp1dttoI Is patent.
Forcibiy disarmed. Germany could en-
brace the Kellogg proposal with e.thu-
siasm and TO the great discon1fture ot
France. AS to the naval proposals ve
made al Geneva forcioly condemned 70
exist without real feet. Ge-ra-v
could heartily applaud and embrace any
program which helped TO diSarEl the
other fellow.
But the German IS not thinking po-
iiticaly in the old-tashiored sense He
IS. I think, The only European who Is
not. To support America against
France would be 20 ir-itate the nation
which continues 20 insist uoon the oc-
cupatio1 Of German soil. To assiS. In
complicating Anglo-Amer!can re!a.iors
would perhaps give Germany academic
enjoyment, but no pzo<i-.
German Hand Stayed.
Even in the case OF South America
the German hand IS stared As per-
haps eventually our chief competitor N
The South American market. the Ger
man views with natural delight all nat
. tends 10 arouse Latin American resent
uient OF The United States His iuseres.
n Havana was as great as the B-itc:'s
or the Freachman'S 5. He SaE' eva-- IN
cident. every example q cur alleged
imperialism" rs a practical ard mate
rial gain for the European seller.
II the matter OF debts and repara-
tiors. too. tha German IS thinking
European Sooner or later his bill
is TO be fixed, and then what he pays
will amouu. 20 little more than what
his former foes in Europe pay the
United States. II Is European t-lo-
Ute 10 America. which must be 70
certain extent a handicap upon E1-
SvSS tx- RSNr~
American Why. then. Till rot Europe
adopt q European policy here as else
where
Sooner o. later, the German IS per-
feclly sasifsd the economic leader
ship II Europe must be his Only
American methods can bea. America
in Europe, and only Germany has as
simulated these methods. He sees
Britain definitely beaten IN the race
with the United States. He sees The
United States permanently resolved %
make 10 partnership agreement with
Britain. Even more, he reasons IRA,
n the dominion markets the United
States has oQtGistarceG Britain
Must Be European.
Britain .raS. bs European. That IS
the German thesis. Only as par. c.
3 European economic combination can
Britain survive the American s.sacS-
France mus. De European. Only IL
this way can Europe Itself arrive 4, any
collective economic unity. Sut, and
the German So-rcvfuliy comedies this
fact. there IS no evidence II London or
Paris Of any recognition O. this SI.I,s-
ton There Is lest, thsgl. nothing but
IL wait 10 r.a-ch along the middle O.
the road. cu: always time rs..,S assi-AS.
Europe and the American INVASION ccc-
.s..CeS.
S.lal! have failed - MAKE this Ger
man state cf mind clear = ! suggest
any real o. LATENT hostility - the
United States The German Is mn
cr,ticiE.ns or methods ~ cG- r:,c-a-s.
Various circumstances have coCletI,sI
- give hin, what ne sincerely believes
- b. a truly objective view .. s2e
world situation, Ss SCNsS Gos believe
that c,.v rise - aN 2cc.2s.. ~ Cur
policy IS ons shs, ~sI change WssH 81
administration er With Sns.ie mysterious
moral reVolUslo,l. lie ccSS Isct SSc o
sentimental solution fc- What - r.
CARDS as d pareiy 9sSsSy:a. syo,ltsa,,.
Thus cise arrives ~ tsss amazing
paradox that II Essoc>s Germany -
economically. cur c,<Sr dangerous cr-
;>onsHt, hus =. al else CUR icaSs s:ri-
mon,cl.S critic and c&.r ,,,NS; unqualified
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