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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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the Mikado. When Russia moves in
that direction the next time, it will
be with the added momentum and
power that American pressure will
produce.
European Situation.
Upon his arrival in New York last
Sunday TroyanOvsky in a brief speech
broadcast via a radio network pointed
out that the history of international
relations is now upon the threshold
of what he called the Pacific era, but
he hurriedly added that we have not
yet emerged from the Atlantic era.
That is to say, while diplomatic dis
cussion increasingly will center about
problems of interest to the countries
whose coasts are washed by the waves
of the Pacific ocean, the perpleXities
of the nations adjacent to the Allan
tic are by no means over.
In way, they are becoming more
rather than less complicated, and the
general European situation as it is
today can be best described by the
one worn, CHdOS.
Conflicting Desires.
There is conflict of desires which
makes progress impOssible-at least.
for the time being. On one hand,
France insists that Germany must
be kept in it's present state of inert
weakness while France itself must
have the right to increase its
strength. France will permit no Ger
man army increase, no disarmament
negotiations outside the framework of
the League of Nations, no tinkering
whatsoever with the Versailles peace
treaty of 1919.
On the other hand, England and
Italy while not officially committing
themselves, show an inclination to
allow Germany some army increase,
and to try to solve some of the trou-
blous problems without the direct aid
of the League of Nations, thus in
ferring that they consider it wise to
at least begin some sort of revision
of the Versailles treaty.
Sir John Back.
AS reported in these columns three
weeks ago, Sir John Simon, British
foreign minister, set out for trip to
the continent a few days prior to
Christmas. He went to Paris first,
conferred with Premier Chautemps
and Foreign Minister Paul-Boncour
about the general situation and out
look and was then represented as
sanctioning the French viewpoint in
its essential details.
Having completed this part of his
labOrs Sir John preceded to the is
land of Capri for a brief holiday
vacation, and then went On to Rome
where Prime Minister Mussolini dis
cussed with him the problems con-
sidered in Paris. Here, it seems, Sir
John changed some of his opinions,
at least, his conformity with French
was the case while he was in Paris.
indeed, he even went to the opposite
extreme by admitting that probably
Germany, after all, ought to be given
the right to increase it's army. While
in Paris, Sir John insisted. with the
French diplomats, that disarmament
and kindred problems should and
must be discussed within the League.
In Rome, he evaded the question by
merely saying that League reorgani
cation is a matter of secondary i'm
portance, when compared to the issue
of disarmament.
Now Sir John Simon is back in
London where the British cabinet is
digesting the result of his continental
observations, painfully incomplete be-
cause he seemingly did not consider
it worth while to go to Berlin, thus
missing a firsthand and authoritative