Evening star., 1933-08-14

Testimony that Europe is arming for
war, from Henry Morgenthau, sr.. is
received with some skepticism, although
he is credited with ability as an able
analyst and keen observer. Delegate to
the Geneva Wheat Conference and an
adviser to the London Economic Con-
ference, he IS believed to have had op-
portunities for observation, but his con-
clusions, it is pointed out, differ from
those Of some other Americans who
have been abroad.
Accepting as important his belief that
war clouds are gathering and 1t will
not be long before the storm breaks,
the Rockford Register Republic states
that Secretary of State Hull visualiZed
an entirely different scene" and could
see only desire for cooperative effort
among nations, with a view to estab-
fishing lasting peace" The Register
Republic concludes: Mr. Morgenthau is
essentially realist. and his problems
deal with facts. Secretary Hull is a
theorist. whose internationaIstic views
amount almost to a passion. It IS left
to the American people to draw their
own conclusions as to which Of their
own representatives. If either. may be
right. Certainly the two opinions can
not be reconciled, hence one must be
wrong"
Representative McReynolds, one of
the American delegates to the London
Conference, is quoted by the Charleston
IS. c. Evening Post as saying that
he saw not the slightest sign Of war
mindedness during the six weeks he was
in London, mfngling with representa-
tives of sixty nations" That paper con-
cedes that Mr.. Morgenthau lis an ex-
arf nad iYl NHat NJ =,
usual opportunities for acquiring infor-
nation" The Evening Post adds: Now
that the Economic Conference has failed
it was said by many that its failure
would be an international tragedy
there is recurrence of war talk in Eu-
rope, although it can hardly be said
that. IN popular sense, there was per-
ceptible. any widespread repercussion
from the collapse of the conference. u
The Charleston paper quotes a cor
respondent Of the New York Herald
Tribune as reporting that on the occa-
sion of Englands observance Of the
nineteenth anniversary of its entrance
into the war, he observed less Of the
spirit OF revulsion against that frightful
slaughter and more Of a disposition to
regard it not only as an inevitable and
justiflable event, but also as an en-
LOUuIls experience. 1EdC Is CQaQRe,
1t is added. from the stark horror with
which it was regarded in the years i'm
mediately following the conclusion OF
peace, when virtually all who had gone
through the shambles were resolved
that never again should there be such
q soaring of humanity"
Referring to the Morgenthau state
ment that France is working tooth and
nail to be self-contained and Is offering
bonus on wheat the Baltimore Sun
comments on the conclusions drawn
"A struggle for national economic self
containment in preparation for war
may, for all we know by way of de-
cisive proof. be the proper explanation
of the French governments subsidy OF
its wheat farmers. However, the ex-
planation of the wheat subsidy offered
by many French politicians is at least
worth noting in this connection. They
say that, far from being directed tc
war purposes. the wheat subsidy is the
French governments peace offering tc
the peasant farmers of France 1t may
be that preservation of internal politi-
cal peace with the French peasants an6
preparation to have the international
peace broken both play parts in the
motivation of the French wheat subsidy
But at any rate the motivation Offered