The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
EUROPE TORN
BY HATRED AS
LEAGUE MEETS
Hard Times Drive Nations
Toward Trade Pact, but
War Clouds Loom.
RIVALRIES FEARED BAR
All Have Eyes on Wider
Frontiers; Prepared to
Fight for Them.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1O.-With
the odds in favor of Mars, a mighty
battle between the forces Of peace
and the forces of war is in full
swing today in Europe as the League
of Nations met to take stock OF
things at Geneva.
On the one hand the general eco
nomic depression, whose grip on the
old world steadily is tightening, is
acting as a tremendous inducement
toward the United States of Europe
urged by the French foreign min
lister, Aristide BRAND.
On the other, age-old hatreds
and brand new fears and animosi-
ties are combining to drive the ma
lions apart, herding them almost
irresistibly into two distinct and
hostile camps. These camps now
are arrning, and, many observers
insist, eventually must clash in a
new Armageddon.
Rumanian Is President
The eleventh assembly of the
league elected Nicolas Titulesco OF
Rumania president when it con-
vened today.
The departure Of Dino Grand,
Italian foreign minister who at
tended the league council sessions,
on the eve of the opening of the
assembly was interpreted here as a
gesture emphasizing Italy'S political
detachment from the league affairs.
1t also was due, however, to the
fact that he carried disarmament
data to Premier Mussolini as a re-
suit of his talks here with Foreign
Minister Aristide BRAND of France.
The conversations between BRAND
and Grandi, looking toward an
agreement that would permit France
and Italy to enter the full commit
ments of the London naval pact, had
been expected to be one of the most
important features of the present
session.
Back of the United States of
Europe project is the idea, not new,
which Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon stated in 1926. Said he;
Industrial Power Would End
IF we should consider each of our
forty-eight states a separate nation,
each having its own tariff, its own
railroads, its own currency and its
own language, the industrial power
of the United States must and
would end"
Today at Geneva twenty-seyen
European nations-more than TWEEN
ty of which are represented by their
foreign ministers-are trying to
found a United States of Europe to
save themselves from economic dis
aster. To facilitate competition with
great industrial powers like the
United States of America, they are
attempting to find a way to CO.
operate economically after the fash
ion of our states. 1t seems Europe'S
only way out.
But while each Of these twenty
seven nations has agreed, in prin-
cipie, to unite in this way, danger
GUS and disruptive rivalrieS are
forcing them apart.
Divided in Two Groups
Divided, most of them, into two
groups of the World war. the vic
tors and the vanquished, the victors
stand pat on the frontiers as drawn
in the treaty of peace, while the
vanquished are clamoring, ever
more insistently, that the frontiers
be changed.
Thus. on one side, we find $780,
600 900 Germans, AuStrians, Hun
garians. Lithuanians and Italians
for Italy has joined the ranks OF
the disgruntled-and on the other
$50 100000 French, Poles, Czechs,
Yugo-Salvs. Belginns and Ruman-
ians. with 170,000,000 British and
Russians watching from the side
lines
Neither to Stay Out
Being temporarily on the sidelnes,
however, does not mean that either
Russians or British will stay out
of the game.
On the contrary, either or both
may jump into it at any moment,
and will whenever they believe
something is to be gained.
Russia could even play a decid-
ing role. BY entering a German
Japanese and, perhaps, Italian alli-
ance, she easily might change the
map of the world, and this old and
greatly feared German-RusSian-
Japanese hook-up by no means is
outside the range of tomorrow's pos
sibilities.
France. Poland and their allies, It
must be remembered, have made II
fairly certain they are prepared to
fight-well under the terms OF the
kellogg pact-in defense of existing
frontiers.
Germany has made 1t equally
plain that she intends to wipe out
the Polish corridor separating East
Prussia from the rest Of the father
land if it takes her until doomsday.
And fascist Italy has served notice
on the world that she will hurl her
legions against any nation that tries
to block her ambitions-amoluonS
which embrace virtually new
Roman empire.
In the Orient, stands Japan with
her eyes on Manchuria. She firmly
intends TO dominate that region,
having already fought two wars tc
maintain her position there, she
would fight 8 third at the drop OF
the hat.
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