Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
By LELAND STOWE.


BY Radio to The Star
PARIS, January 19.-"There is not a
peace of Europe and peace of America
There Is peace of the. world" BRAND
coined and flung crisply this veracious
epigram at the French Senate on
| Tuesday while defending the anti-war
treaty-of all places--in that Parlia-
ment wherein criticism Of it is least ex-
pected. His epigram was headlined in
the French press next day. Frances
practical Utopian had added another
brilliant bon mot to the long list he has
contributed to European political
| thought
But these words of BRAND we're more
than bon mot. They will be repeated
and deserve to be repeated in the United
States as i'll Europe because they sum
up with the wisdom and terseness of
a Socrates the astounding transforma-
| ton to which the universe has been
subjected from 1914 to the present day.
| The ratification of the Briand-Kellogg
pact by the American Scnate--welcome
as 1t is in Europe-is but another link
in that long chain of events. Now that
finally We have taken political gov
ernmental step in common with the
herself united with Europe in abhoring
war, If not in preventing it, this dictum
| from BRANDS epigrammatic lips strikes
! with redoubled force
There is not a peace Of Europe and
a peace OF America: there is a peace of
the world" is the French foreign min
| isters way of saying that IS American
senators can be wrong and that we
nave been duped into entanglements
with Europe in spite of ourselves. BRAND
would be the first to disclaim this. The
truth OF what he says stands far above
party Jockeyings or nationalistic an1bi-
tons. If he had phrased it less per-
tectly BRAND might have declared that
the first World War proved conclusively
that hereafter there will be either a
world war again or world peace.
Americas Part Held Inevitable.
And behind that lies the simple fact
-repugnant to many Americans, but
admitted by some others and unuues-
toned by Europe-that hereafter any
great European conflict almost inevita-
bly, will drag America into it. We say
we won't fight again in Europe, or with
any part of Europe. For us that seems
to end it, especially since our reasons
are so we'll founded. But serious Euro
pean statesmen have one pointed reply.
How Is America going to stay out?"
they ask. And precisely because most
OF Europe doubts that we can stay out
the Senate's ratification of the anti
war pact has decided significance on
this side of the Atlantic
Every nation in Europe deeply prefers
in some measure we should come
in" to help maintain peace than that
we should stay OUT only to be forced
in when another war comes. Perhaps
Europe knows better than we how near
the United States is to the Old World
Leaving the Versailles treaty the League
covenant and the Kellogg pact entirely
aside, Europeans see American ir-
revocably in Europe and Western
Hemisphere's fate firmly bound to that
of the Eastern Hemisphere. From April
1917, the United States, against its own
wishes. has moved closer and closer to
Europe, and In the opinion of the
statesmen on this side of the Atlantic
will move closer yet.
War Danger Cited.
Lindbergh linked New York with
Paris in SO hours In phenomenal good
will gesture. But there are thinkers who
say that what Lindbergh did iri good
will others can do with the worst in
tentions. Within five years time air.
planes win be built capable of spanning
ing enough bombs to wipe lower Man
haitian Of the map. If that should
happen one day, would the United
States insist there is still one war and
one peace for Europe and another for
America?
The Old world authorities likewise
have watched for 10 years Americas
constantly growing economic bonds with
Europe. just as every invention binds
us closer to Europe, so does every COM
fnercial ship IN 1926 the total of
United States exports to Europe alone
were valued at $4,000, 705 900, and in
1927 even more than that. The United
States imports by sea during 1928 were
$3,7l8, 100000 and our exports by sea
reached $4,146, 789, 000 In the same
sos, $4,000. Continental business men
who scan these figures are almost fright
ened by them. Then they ask: How
can the United States remain aloof from
Europe and be Indifferent to our wars
when their formidable prosperity is so
dependent on our welfare and stability?
They echo Brands sentiments that in
the end there is only world peace--or
world war
u. S. Money Influx Cited.
These same statisticians are not I'M
mindful of the tremendous influx of
American money into Europe. They
envisage the United States as collector
of debts for So years-the final credit
of the last war-arld refuse to believe
any new war could fail seriously to af-
| feet America. They turn to the stag
gering list of American postwar loans,
which, If the reparations bonds are
/ finally floated, will only tough new
heights. They recall that during 1927
alone foreign government loans assumed
by American bankers totaled $4,000, -
600. That from the same sources $431,-
$4,000 came abroad in loans for for
eign cities, states and provinces. That
| foreign corporations received from
America $3.50, 239 900 more. In one year
American loans to Europe totaled ST.
300 ,22900
That also is part of Americas man,
moth stake in Europe, although off,
cially we are out Of Europe. How far