The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-19
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Edi:or

WASHINGTON. April 19-The
ghost at the White House feast t
Roosevelt and a host of statesmen +
meet to work out plan to put the
Restoration of political peace
for all plans of economic reStorat
Commences memo prepared for tt
economic conference will warn.
Yet, not since 1914 has the worl
Europe is splitting up into tw
other French. The lines still are
England are not yet committed.
But the explosives arc there, wait
ing for the spark
In the Orient the seeds of a new
world conflict have been planted by
Japan, China and Russia.
In the shadow Of these dangers,
the meeting between President
Roosevelt and Premier Macdonald,
of Great Britain; ex-Premier Her
riot, of France; Finance Minister
Jung of Italy, and the new German
ambassador, DR.. Hans Luther, Will
assume particular significance.
Team Play Hope Voiced
Attaching supreme importance to
the establishment Of confidence
as part of his plan for new eco
nomic order in the world, the Presi-
dent is prepared fundamentally to
cooperate with the other powers to
the limit allowed by American ira
dition and constitution. A consulta-
tive clause to the kellogg Pact, and
a world agreement regarding ag-
gressor nations, almost certainly
will be discussed.
But that is not all. The Roose-
Macdonald meeting may lead
to some definite Anglo American
team-play TO bring home to CONT
mental Europe the folly OF her
political quarrels and her waxing
ornaments race.
Great Britain and America may
let it be known that if the two
armed camps of Europe continue to
refuse all offers of compromise, and
war results from this unbending
attitude, neither side may expect
help, moral or otherwise, from
either country, treaties or no trea-
ties.
Continental Europe Afiame
Already there is distinct British
trend in this direction. Despite
Britains positive commitments I'M
der the Treaties of Locarno to go
to the aid of France, if Germany at
tacks without provocation, or to aid
of Germany in the event French
aggression, the conservative Lord
Beaverbrook Daily Express de
clared editorially:
1.-The feuds and jealousies of Eu-
rope have reached that point which
has been foreSeen by the realists
but denied by the sentimentalists.
Germany is aflame with militant
nationalism. Italy and Germany
are united by common triumph of
Fascism. Vienna, still the vassal OF
Germany, has once more become the
center of European intrigue.
"JugoSlavia stands with poised
knife waiting for the onslaught of
Italy. The Poles are watching the
boiling couldron of the Corridor
and France looks over Europe with
the impulse of terror to strike.
British Turning Against War
cit is a terrible picture and the
hopes and prayers of all men are
that sanity and self-control may yet
avert the calamity that threatens
the European continent.
But our task is urgent.
"Great Britain must declare in
plain language that if Europe goes
mad, she will not send a soldier tc
join in the melee"
Even in the forrest of British
Tory circles, it is said, the feeling
is growing that unless both Euro
pean camps yield little from their
present provocative attitude, anoth-
err conflict will be inevitable Hence
the warnings of Lord Beaverbrook
and the International Chamber OF
Commerce.
Utmost Pressure Held Need
The the utmost pressure of some
sort is needed to cool off the poll
teal atmosphere before the Geneva
disarmament conference goes to
smash. and before the world eco
nomic conference meets at London,
everywhere is admitted.
President Roosevelt absolutely is
adamant, it is said, against doing
anything definite about the wal
debts until EuropeS unreasonable
attitude is abandoned.
In addition, both sides of con-
greSS practically are unanimous that
even outright cancellation would MOI
scratch the surface OF world eco
nomic rehabilitation as long as this
fear-proVoking uncertainty persists
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