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contribute lOllllIlS COWdTuS cuiOpedL
peace
While open covenants" are COM
pletely discredited, it is equally true
that President Roosevelt's formula of
the conference method" has about as
little appeal to European dictators and
diplomats as had his Democratic
predecessors Covenant procedure. In
his not of last May, sent directly to
the heads of all governments, land
through them to the people of their
nation" President Roosevelt expressed
the view that: Domestic recovery
programs should be supplemented by
wise and considered international
action; that disarmament would
contribute towards the achievement
OF world peace" and that 1.-The con-
ference method is the practical
method by which to proceed"
European chancellorieS have forgot
ten President Roosevelt's suggestion
for the conference method as COM
pletely as they have closed their eyes
to the idealistic credo which emerged
from the World War.
Michiavellian Diplomacy.
The textbook of European diplo-
macy today-resurrected first by Mus
sollni, then adopted by Pilsudski in
Poland, the japanese, by Hitler in
Germany, by CONDOS and Dollfuss in
Budapest and Vienna, and to a Ger
tain extent, by Edouard Benes, Sir
John Simon and Barthou-is not even
that of Bismarck, Metternich, Balfour
or Clemenceau. 1t is Machiavellian
The PoliSh-German pact, under
which, so lar as the public knows the
Germans have renounced their Corri-
dor policy for decade, preceded the
Balkan and Danubian agreements.
Here again the cause of peace" is sup
posed to have been served, but only a
novice in continental diplomacy will
believe that there was not quid pro
quo for HitlerS concession to Poland
The hated Corridor has been the Nazi's
best political argument for years
against the Versailles treaty That
and disarmament. To renounce his
policy of wiping out the barrier that
separates East Prussia from the
fatherland would be bit difficult even
for Adolf Hitler
Poland. which of late has been
growing colder and colder to French
influence, apparently has definitely
turned its face toward Germany and
the East Warsaw's interests have
never really ben il the West-in Paris
although Immediately after Versail-
les French support was an additional
guarantee against both Teutonic ag-
greSsion and Bolshevist penetration.
Today the possibility of a Franco
German war is not received with any
enthusiasm in Warsaw-in fact. quite
the contrary.
Alien Dictators Rule.
Over in Berlin, as in Warsaw, an
alien dictator rules these days-Hitler,
son CT an Austrian house painter and
Pilsudski, offspring of a Lithuanian
peasant. Temperamentally and emo
tionally Pilsudski leans toward Ger
many, and particularly toward a man
like Hitler Also. he Is known to be
tas are many French themselves) dis
gusted with the dilatorineSs of the
Radical-Socialist foreign policy of the
past two years. Poland today is in
tensely nationalistic and Pilsudski is
anti-Semitic and anti-social and
frownS upon parliamentarianiSm and
democracieS.
Having made peace with Moscow
lQargely through the astute diplomacy
of NJ. Patek, now Polish ambassador
to Washington and rid himself of his
pro-French foreign minister, M ZaleS-
Xxi, Pisudski naturally inclines to-
Tards~an understanding with Berlin
Especially since Hitler is likely to ex-
tend a-friendly hand. In dealings be-
tween Warsaw and Berlin the foreign
ministers. Col. Beck and Won Neurath
mean nothing. 1t is PilSudSki who
talks directly to Herr Hitler.
The contents of the PoliSh-Ge
man agreement have never been en-
tirely divulged The Quai d'Orsay is
dissatisfied and Downing street is
skeptical. Moscow is openly critical
and the Baltic republics fearful. The
little states of Lithuania. Esthonia
Latvia and Finland are fighting des-
perately against an insidious wave of
Nazi-iSm, which already has deluged
the S&r, Danzig and Austria. They
have reason for apprehension.
Promises to Nazis Rumored.
There are persistent rumors-re-
ports that will not down and which
are repeated by serious-minded states
men who come to Geneva-that in re-
turn for Germany's policy of inaction,
II not actual acquiescence,. to the Dan
zig Corridor, Pilsudski has promised
Hitler not to join with Italy, France
or others in opposing Nazi expansion
In Southeastern Europe. Such an un-
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asmuch as Warsaw is less interested
IN political and commercial trends in
the Balkans and Danube region than
she is even in the Rhineland. Her
future lies in the Baltic and toward
Russia.
OF more serious proportions is the
German-PoliSh Set-up, which hooks in
en- the Far East. The Germans have
long envisaged cooperation with the
japanese, and since both governments
withdrew from the League their rela-
tionships have been extended into
both economic and political spheres.
I'VE have no proof that there is any
definite written agreement between
the Germans and japanese" a high
official of the Quai d'Orsay told the
writer, "but we do know that there Is
verbal agreement and tacit under
standing, which will be observed so
long as the interests of the two coun-
tries are parallel, of both a political
and commercial nature"
German japanese Unity.
Since neither Germany nor Japan
Is any longer a member in good
standing in the League (although
under the Covenant they must observe
their pledges for two years after CIV
ing official notification of with
drawaD, it is hardly likely that they
would register any pacts existing be-
tween them. Admissions by diplo-
mats of Berlin and Toxic furnish
ample confirmation that the two coun-
tries are standing shoulder to shoulder
In regard to disarmament, Russia and
other questions. In economic and
commercial affairs, and vis-a-vis the