Evening star., 1928-01-21
?AN:EUROPEAN AIM
IS GIVEN STIMULUS
Movement Revived by Pos.
sibiIity CT Progress at
Har,2a Farley.
BY PAUL SCOTT MUcaER.

Ry Cable 10 The Star ana ChIrago ba'ls
News Copyright, t3@S
PARIS. January 2i.-The possibility
of closer paa-American unity resulting
from the present congress in Havana
seems to have given new stimulus 10
the pan-European movement.
While super.icially Europe appears as
discordant as ever. there are. neyerfhe-
less. profound forces which have been
operating since the World War to
transform this Giscord into permanent
harmony
Europeans all see that In the last
war tlaey lost their previous world
supremacy to the United States. They
feel that another war would ruin them
beyond recovery for all time, TO the
profit OF America and Asia.
Have Common Interest.
Financially, European nations have
a common interest In that they are all
debtors OF the United States and In
capable for the present OF making ex-
tensiye foreign investments themselves
Economically. they realize that tney
can hope TO hold their own with the
when, like the United States. they can
first depend for business and profits on
a vast interior market. using merely
surplus production. for foreign trade,
No single European country except
primitive Russia now offers a sufficient
interior market. but II Europes 100000
900 population were combined In sim
gle protected market II would then be
greater than the United States: nencc
the tendency toward tariff agreements
and industrial cartelS.
II is an open secret that DR., Mayrich
Of Laxemburg. president OF the Euro
pean Steel Cartel, hopes that this great
trust will result ultimately in the politi-
cal grouping OF France. Germany. Bel
GUM and Luxembourg
America Notes Move.
Nor is the significance OF this trend
lost upon competent American obServ-
ers. DR. Klein. head Of the Bureau OF
Foreign and Domestic Commerce al
Washington recently spoke OF the
predatory plans Of the European car
teis' while Col Frederick Pope. New
YORK engineer. considers them an indi-
cation of "a commercial Monroe doc
t5fne for Europe"
Meanwhile, a meeting Of the central
committee ~ the Pan European Union
has Just been held In Paris. This or
gan.zation openly advocates political and
economic unity of all Europe. except
Russia and Great Britain II Is known
/ 10 have the sympathy of such states
men as Foreign Minister BRAND oi
France. Chancellor gcipeI of Austria
and President Ioebe 0f the German
Eeichstag Its president. Count Couden-
move KalsTgi, Is quoted IN the Paris
hat!n as urging open customs and the
union of France and her little entente
allies aS nucleus " which all other
European countries could then gradual
~ adhere.
The Fan-European Union strongly
supports the League Of Nations, espe-
! claliy the Leagues sndeagorg for low
erin2 customs barriers and popularizing
compulsory arbitration. rs next con.
gtess VIII be held III Paris In November
of the present year
Backed by League,
Indeed. The League II Nations APP
pfais III a certain sensF an an organ
III pan .Eufopeanlsm. While 4hsoreti.
ciaHy bDfld wide in scope, the League
Always baE concentrated economically
( ah0 financially On European problems
Wiilie politically II has avoided Aslatic
/ hiid American questions and devoted
. it@+ii enefgeticaily t0 European auea'
/ tlons
4 The possibility of the world organiz-
uig ~ continents hsH aroused anG
alarmed some lovers ~ peace Whats
/ The uae ~ unifying continents" lhej
say, "n aftsfWaFd THE continents merely
! 0pi~'se oiis another? This VIII not end
/ war. but wi!l make bigger wars thai
/ eyer f."
Therefore some international think.
efs have begun u urge regional politi'
! cal organization within the largei
/ framework III the League Of Nations
/ giving eaeh continent eompihte politiea
| autonomy While binding all together
| Ia general peace pact and In tls
same humanitarian erldesyofE