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so they Immediately voted for the
first part of the military budget pro-
posal, involving $375,OOO,0O0 for the
fiscal year of 1856; when all ap-
preparations for defense purposes for
the coming year have been voted,
they will total $838,0O0,000.
Government Speaks.
One would assume, quite naturally
that Archimbaud did not speak with
out authorization by the French gov
eminent, but that very institution an
nounced-when the budget had been
safely voted-that all rumors about
any military understanding between
Russia and France were absolutely
and wholly groundless. So. the SEN
sation, calling forth eight-column
headlines in the daily papers of the
United States, too, seems to have been
purposely created in order to intim-
idate-or encourage-the chamber Of
deputies to adopt one of the biggest
military appropriations on record in
Europe.
France got away with it, as the
saying is, but a good deal Of indigna-
tion is heard throughout the world
because the government at Paris
found it necessary to stoop to fiction
of this highly inflammable kind.
AS matter of fact, there is at
the present moment no danger of war
in Europe-not even when one con-
siders the coming Saar plebiscite-
and there is, as has now been shown
by the French government itself after
it had attained its objective, no alli-
ance or entente existing between Rus
STA and France. Europe is today what
it was last week, and a month ago,
with the exception that the danger
Increased as a result Of the huge mil
itary appropriations. For, the ever
recurring talk of vast sums needed
for French defense" deceives no
one in an age when statesmen and
generals have found it impossible to
define the difference between defen-
sive and offensive-or aggressive
warfare.
Naval Conference.
While a war scare was artificially
produced in France-and almost i'm
mediately vaporated-another one is
brewing in London where the pre-
paratory naval negotiations between
the United States, Great Britain and
Japan continue to prove fruitless.
The element of fear inherent in this
situation lies in the danger of I'M
hindered naval rivalry. for while the
two English-speaking powers refuse
to abandon the theory that their
navies must be materially larger than
that of Japan, the government of the
latter country insists that equality
of naval ornaments must be recog-
nized; failing to obtain that, Japan
will build a navy to suit her own
needs and desires, and, of course, this
will inevitably lead to an ever in
creasing British and American fleet.
AS ornaments grow, the danger of
war is augmented. That is an old
axiom, confirmed bloodily by history.
Friction.
Not without its danger elements is
the situation existing in the relation
ship between Jugo-Slavia and Hun
gary; before the League of Nations
the Belgrade government has charged
that at Budapest with completely in
the murder of King Alexander at
Marseilles almost two months ago
Quite gingerly the League has tried
to sidestep the issue, and it is ap-
parent that nothing will be done
about the matter until next January.
if then. AS has already been pointed
out in these columns, it is pretty
hazardous business to accuse an en-