The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-15
Europe's Darkest
 Hour Now At Hand
Oswald Garrison Willard Sees Get-to-Gether as Only
 Remedy For Further Outbreak

New York.-"You cannot wander about Europe and believe that the World war is over," says Oswald Garri/Jn Willard, editor. of The Ma ton, at the conclusion of eight months intensive study of contin- ental conditions; 'it will not be over in its consequences in our lifetime.
 Fear, hate, hunger, poverty, the deadly lack of work. the loss of hope-one meets them on every hand. They dog ones footsteps in the streets of Istanbul, the byways of London, in every lane of every German town. You cannot escape them among the bare hills of Sicily, 1n the plains of Rumania, on the mountain slopes of Bulgaria, where ever farmers produce and cannot sell.
 Next to the danger of economic collapse" continues Mir Willard, "the specter of war and the prepa- rations for war remains most vivid with me. Soldiers everywhere There are million more fellows running around Europe with rifles in their hands than there were when the murder at Sarajevo start ed the disaster. Why should anyone think that Europe is safer with all this additional preparation for war than it was then?
 President Hoover is right to i'm sist that disarmament is absolutely necessary for the financial sanita- tion of Europe. Far more than that, it is absolutely necessary for the moral sanitation of Europe. I have come back more than ever in favor of the canceling of war debts and the stopping of reparations, but l certainly do not wish to see without exacting the most definite sea and land.
 "Everywhere," MT Willard reiter- ates, nations are helping to im- poverish themselves by keeping fell lows with rifles in their hands. There is Angora, the new capitol of Turkey, placed high up in deso- late region purely for military safe- ty by that able dictator and despotic ruler of his. country, Renal Pasha. It is hardly safe to drive in any direction out of Angora because of the military zones you constantly run into. Sometimes you may enter under restrictions; in other zones it is a deadly offense to set foot at all.
 "I have stressed in my letters from Europe the various problems to be grappled with, the tariffs which throttle one country after another, armaments, the psychology of fear and of hate. the heaping up of gold in Paris and in Washington, the folly of separations and of the war-debt payments. These and others are the breastworks to be taken. They can only be conquered by international action and coop eration. Let no man be in any doubt about that point. The present crisis is the worst in history because 1t is worldwide. It is the simple truth that no one nation can hope to work out of it except by some fortuit- ous happening. Why are the nations not working together, through their rulers? Why are the latter not meeting like the executives of a great endangered industry. if only to get to know one another, if only to exchange views, to plan for united action and united front :? One of the best known diplomats in London declared not long ago that he had never been able to see why the rulers were not meeting for just this purpose.
 'The beginning" MT Willard points out. 'has been made. The British prime minister has invited the German chancellor to come to Chequers to talk. Not until June,