Evening star., 1928-05-06
Europe 10 Years From Now

products. which are being established,
are they not the embryos of an immense
industrial entente? And when this
reaches realization will not the customs
''tariffications" crumble of their own
accord?
There are all the more chances that
the prodigiously interesting movement
which appears on the horizon will de-
velop itself. now that American compe-
tion is beginning to press Europe on all
sides Having for a solid foundation a
vast internal market. the American in
dustrialists will soon find themselves
without a doubt in a position 10 sub
merge the Old World under the food of
their products If the latter does not
flght against the New World by using
the same weapons as il does.
win Need Markets.
II would not be sufficient, in fact,
for Europe to fight invasion with Gus
toms rights--a puerility analogous to
that of the child who on the shore
erects banks of sand to stop the rising
tide. Like American industry, European
industry will need enlarged markets IN
order TO reduce its cost prices and at
of the hand workers who must form
its main customers. Again, 1t viii be
necessary for Ii to discipline itself, to
purge itself. 10 liquidate its parasitic
factories. to renovate its stock Of tools,
TO transform its methods. And only a
general entente will permit these results
TO be obtained.
AS IL is In the nature OF man To re-
sort to such vast agreements difiicult
and painful, only so far as necessity
impels him, America alone In threat
ening Europe, can oblige her To unite.
The New World viii thus render. with
out willing 1t. considerable service TO
the Old World
Am not. however, too ready To hope
AM I not putting 400 much confidence
In human reason when ! foresee In 10
years time a Europe setting out toward
unity. refusing little by little to COM
pose iuxtaposition Of churlish nations.
preparing itself to become one great ma
rion9 Certainly ] should be satisfied
II In q decade to come the Old World
is beginning TO orient itself toward
solidarity But viii 1t be so inclined9
ChauvinismS Lulled.
When at certain times the press of
various countries is. as II happens too
often. disturbed by flashes of hatred
when I happen to read of the hypo-
critical or cynical displays of private
ambitions, Of business calculations, OF
SPECTATORS toying with the idea Of new
confiicts--the realization is forced upon
me that the chauvinisms are only lulled
and that the oligarchies of steel and Of
the blast furnaces are not yet prepared
to abiure their abstract conceptions of
narrow feudaiism.
And tell myself that II, during the
coming 10 years. the hatred and the
national mistrust stirred by their bene-
ficiaries are allowed TO continue un-
checked~~even II Europe does not be-
come embroiled in new warS-~from
which. according to every probability,
she will be spared by the still present
memory OF past atrocities above all by
the tustihable fears of disaster a thou
sands times worse-~if Europe remains
dormant. her existence will be gravelv
lmperiled.
Disunited. tormented by conflicts of
Interest and passion, invaded econom-
ically, she viii wtther away. She will
present a case similar to that OF the
sick man who trembling at the thought
OF surgical intervention. drags out
through the years an existence that
every day grows more feeble Faint
doom that his narrow stubbornness
renders inexorahle
What Future May Hold.
What conclusion is there, in the face
of these uncertainties. save that those
people of disinterested motive---whom
/ have always regarded as the source OF
all progress IN this world~-have n great
duty to fulfill? 1t behooVes them To In
etrlict. 10 put In motion the silent opin-
Ion Of the world by throwing ON the
screen the plight Of Europe They will
not tire OF repeating that 10 unite Is for
the Old World question OF life or
death. To those who are honestly dis
turbed by the mistakes OF the treaties
passed nj Versailles and in either
places" they will show that II is only
by a certainty OF peace and by gem
eral change III the Old World that the
acts OF diplomacy can be amended
In indicating that these results viii
not be obtained by the methods that the
obsolete policy of the present day has
known and employed for hundreds Of
years they viii specify that there viii
certainly be no question In the future OF
moving frontier postS~~that Is To say, In
most cases OF substituting new iniustiees
in place OF those eliminated, that the
difficulties which abound will be sur
mounted only by creating new forms OF
government ot the peoples. by uniting,
by connecting the states between them-
selves, by intrusting 10 upef-organiEa-
tiona the task ot insurlnR security and
the free eeXrcise of their rights to OPP
pressed mlnorities
Let us push forward on this great
road, of of which there Is no security
for our common country, Europewvwhich
awaits, II II does not get up and walk,
the fate of Babylon and Of Nineveh.