Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
EUROPE PUTS SECURITY
ABOVE PEACE ACTIVITIES
Unwilling to Give Up Right to Fight
Under Conditions Which Mean
Her Future Life.

usefuily and effectively intervene when
Bolivia and Paraguay quarrel over the
Chaco or there is a border shooting
ARRAY between Greece and Bulgaria.
| But it cannot prevent the Germans
from resolving to liberate their fellow
Germans in Poland or the Poles from
resolving to resist a change which
which involve the enslaving of an even
larger number of Poles.
Holds Kellogg Pact Futile
The Kellogg pact cannot avail, be-
cause it seeks to prevent the employ
ment Of the single known remedy for
disease which it does not in the least
touch. All American conceptions Of
war start with the idea that war is the
supreme evil, but few Americans would
hold to this notion if any considerable
portion of their fellow countrymen had
been forcibly torn from them and sub
| jected to an alien rule. Moreover, ii
Mexico were stronger than we are and
displayed the determination to regain
| the provinces we once took by force, We
should certainly look to a powerful
army to defend our integrity.
The weakness of the League of Ma
lions lies in the fact that it is donai-
mated by the nations which have &C
quired all that they want and have no
other desire than to keep what they
have. They are seeking to make of
the League an instrument to defend the
status quo in the name of peace. But
for at least hundred millions of Eu-
reopeans the League will prove futile
thing If it cannot furnish some means
for ending conditions which are in
tolerable.
The steady growth of European arm
amentS is the direct result Of the uni
versal appreciation of the fact that the
satisfied powers will not consent to 4
change and the dissatisfied powers will
not agree to accept what exists AS
long as the Germans, for example, re-
fuse to accept their eastern frontiers
as permanent. France, Czechoslovakia
and Poland will arm and unite for COM
mon protection. But no German gov
eminent could live If it did not give
clear evidence that it had no intention
Of conSenting to any pact to guarantee
those eastern frontiers.
There is a very general American
notion that Europeans have an inher-
ent love for war, that their professed
desire to abolish it is hypocritical and
that they. are arming again because
they are militaristic. This is, of course,
moOnSn1ne. NlneCy-nlne out or a nun
dred Europeans are far more eager to
avoid war than most Americans, for the
simple reason that they know so much
better what it means. What is less
clear to us is that the reason many
millions Of Europeans regard future war
as inevitable is that they or their race
brethren are deprived by force of just
the things We took up arms to acquire
in 1776 and to maintain in 1861, namely
liberty and unity.
Claims Little Done BY League.
During all the enormous activity at
Geneva in the past five years, that is
since the League really became going
concern In the larger sense, not one
single thing has been done to modify or
ameliorate single danger like the
Polish Corridor, Wilma, Upper Silesia,
the Hungarian Marches or Macedonia.
The causes of war remain and even
continue to develop dangerously. There
fore, while both the victors and the
yanquished Of the last struggle, who
are the satisfied and dissatisfied of the
present hour, are utterly sincere in
seeking peace, the former are prepar-
ing to defend what they have and the
latter see peace contingent upon some
change.
(Ccpyright, 1890