Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
EUROPE DUBDLING
]. WITH NEW TRENDS
Brands Plan of Union May
Be CoaguIator for
Political Stew.
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PARIS, September 27.-Europe today
a an old kettle, famed up by old frus-
trations and complications and SIM
!, mering vigorously with new political
waters and new uncertainties. Europe
which has been regarded by some as
''filtering Senilely away, has revealed
bubbling up within its vessel these
past few weeks new springs of actor
and unexpected cross currents. The
Winter promises rich news from the
Old World, for Europe is more strug-
elingly alive at the present moment
than in several years.
lie BRAND Offers Potion.
Into this perplexing cauldron the
hand of medicine man BRAND has
tossed at Geneva the hopeful potion
Of European union, something designed
! 70 try to make the ingredients within
the European pot coagulate and SIM
n1er down into a sane and palatable
mixture. To understand what prompted
the League Assembly to permit BRAND
to let fall his potion of feu and Still
{ il, around for year to see what may
happen, it is wisest perhaps 10 take
fresh look around Europe at these
nations which are simmer.ng-to what
end no one knows.
There Is Germany bursting forth In
Fascist nationaliSm which may endanger
the German republic. Britain is held
in the coils of unemployment and
economic depression. There is France
with her Parliament split almost pre-
Right and Socialist Left and the Tar
sdieu government riding dangerous
rail There is Spain with the Beren-
Euer dictatorship nursing a frail un-
certain existence; Italy. with her Fas-
cist regime striving to perpetuate itself
by frequent doses of a strong but dis
turbing nationalism; Austria, isolated
and gasping economically for existence
as well as relief; Hungary in a SINH
lar condition and wavering as to
whether Otto and the Hapsburgs shall
eventually return.
Problems Are Varied.
To the South, Alexander's dictator
ship poses the question as to whether
Jugoslavia as q nation shall remain
or fall asunder To the East, Rumania
with her new king and disrupted royal
Household To the North, Poland with
discontents. And beyond its borders
lies Russia with its Soviet leaders in
the face of q half-starved populace
clinging Stubbornly to its f1ve-year plan.
This, in substance, and emitting a
few lesser nations, is Europe today. 1t
must be admitted that Europe Is both
alive and unstable. 1t must also be
admitted that anything which may help
calm these internal uncertainties of q
score of European nations viii be a
great contribution both to their well
fare and to a saner and more pros
porous world.
1t is this contribution which BRAND
with his newly organized committee OF
"a purposes to lay the foundation for,
though he himself probably never lives
10 see much more than that accom-
phshed.s 1t would seem that Europe has
found the League of Nations, according
b its present workings, not enough IN
itself or perhaps tie, cumbersome, too
big, to meet all Europe's personal prob
fems.
idea Takes Form.
s In any case, last Tuesday, in the
&lass room of the League palace at
Eeneva. the Committee for the Study
IL European Union" was formed, with
BRAND as its chairman, and the date
~ its first meeting was set for next
january. Europe breaches the study
81 q new way to solve its own difnculty.
IN this IL is goaded as much by emo
&sinties. At any rate, it marks the be-
Ginning, the creation of a specific body
% inquire into the possibilities of the
eventual emergence of united states
~ Europe.
Z II need for such a movement did not
kxist, and II the field was not fertile for
kuch an attempt, surely Brands scheme
Mould not have progressed this far. In
xact. only two weeks before in Geneva
appeared extremely doubtful that
BRANDS European Committee. IL he won
B mandate for such, would come into
Being so quickly as this
Close Contact Afforded.
! What does 1t meanp Perhaps the
Test analogy is this. If the Pan-Aner-
Tan Congress including the foreign
ministers and secretaries of state of all
tations in North. Central and South
kmerica should be commissioned To
Yheet every three or six months for the
1iext year, and discuss means entirely
15ew for economic and political CO.
operation in the New World, you would
Nave the equivalent of the committees
&udy of European union. Notably this
BRAND committee will consist virtually
q all the foreign ministers of the q
European nations concerned. Whereas
net only in Geneva once a year during
Ghe Assembly, they will probably meet
Ehree or four times in the next IL
thonths. This should afford a closer
contact than the League councils have
eFer provided. With the closer con-
oct should come a wider discussion Of
Wurope's mutual problems and with that
Nurope's most pressing problems should
e tackled more vigorously.
( IT is true Brands committee at the
outset viii face a mass of contradictory
opinions and ambitions It is true thf
&rrival of definite conclusions as to how
European cooperation may be increased
viii be slow. Yet in BRANDS committee
" 81 the germ Of European union /.
Hovided an incubator in which to bt
kept alive and expand The uncer.
Ointies which pervade almost every ma
Mon in Europe, so BRAND and Other
European leaders believe, should not
Necessarily handicap the conmittee's
4udy of European union, but perhaps
contribute TO advance its task.
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