Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-07
Rome Seen Afigning Self With
Nations Opposed to Revi-
sion of Treaties.
BERLIN MAY SEEK DEAL
WITH SOVIET AS OFFSET
Teuton Role at Disarmament Par.
ley Next Year Complicated
by New Accord.
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOWER.

BY Cable to The Star
BERLIN, Germany, March THE
Importance of the recent naval agree
ment whereby France and Italy enter
the pesceable fold previously inhabited
by the United States, Great Britain and
Japan is double.
III the first place, it constitutes a
sulidification of the so-called capitalist
or Western World. In The second place
it -hows how soap-bubbly were the
hopes Of the so-called revisionist bloc OF
states, with Germany at its head.
Already European newspapers are
speaking of great American or Franco
American loan to Italy with which II
Duce will seek to re-establish his some
what shaken reputation among his own
tndustrialists and financial magnates
The sums mentioned seem beyond the
present possibilities of the American or
European bond markets, but it is no
secret that some such hope has been
held out to the Italians by Washington
and possibly by Paris and London as a
prize for Italy's good behavior in naval
matters.
Italy Seen Doing Well.
With or without Wall Street aid,
Premier Mussolini would seem to have
done well in accepting the naval agree
ment, since the French in their present
temper were entirely prepared to enter
on a naval construction program and
we're capable financially of building two
or even three ships to Signor Mussolini s
one.
Important, however, in the other way,
fa M nv
or at least many Germans, by Signor
Mussolini's precipitate abandonment Of
his revisionist aims in order to man
tain the traditional friendship with
Great Britain, in other words. once the
British and French were really united
on a program. the Italians found it
wiser to tone down their German f1irta-
ton. 1t is commonly supposed in Ger
many that this means, other things be-
ing equal, that the Germans viii appear
in Geneva a year hence alone in their
demands for general disarmament to
something approaching the German
level
Though the German foreign Office is
careful politically, influential politicians
and periodicals have been counting ever
more heavily on Italian assistance In
the Crescendo campaign for that treaty
revision which constitutes the abiding
gospel OF German foreign policy. With
out Sigror MuSSoi.ni's averred revision
list ideals, without a united front with
the Italians at Geneva during the Pre-
paratory Disarmament Conference, II is
probable that the Germans would have
been more sober in considering their
chances of forcing treaty revision within
the immediate future.
Might Turn to Soviet.
Therefore the Immediate result Of
Italy's adherence 70 the naval agree
nent win undoubtedly be an increased
feeling that only the Soviet Union still
holds out hope of assisting Germany
in realizing its so-called minimum OF
vital necessities. Therein lies the SEQ
ond Importance Of the naval agree
ment.
In this sense one can interpret the
statement of Joseph Wirth, minister Of
the interior, Thursday, appealing to
German Communists not to continue by
their ceaseless uproar TO trouble Ger
man-Russian relations. German for
eign policy has never been really for
mulated. Its basis, after seven years
of study, can be defined somewhat as
follows:
No real European pacihcation is pos
sible without sincere. German adher-
ence. Yet without real pacification
Europe must slowly decline. There
fore Germany is in position. by with
holding her adherence 70 permanent
pacification, to force the Western victoTs
sooner or later TO listen to her demands
for treaty revision along certain i'm
portant lines.
Three Important Views.
These lines are FIVE. three important
and two secondary. Important for Ger
many are. first, reacquisition of the
lost Polish corridor: second. further re-
duction Of reparatiors payments, and
third, general disarmament Of type
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