The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1935-12-20
BEGINNING OF END,
WHITE CIVILIZATION
~ Nelson 6. Dixon

since the dawn OF civilization, have
been national excuses for rapine,
plumber and subjugation Of weak
er peoples. These wers the under
lying causes of the World War.
These made Japga pounce upon
China and annex Manchuria. These
are the "serbonian Bog" in which
the white mans civilization will be
sunk.
It was not without tremendous
significance that Sir Samuel Hoare,
Great Britain's Foreign Minister,
suggested, in his speech before the
League of Nations on the Italo-
Ethiopian crisis, an adjustment of
the distribution of the worlds
stock of raw materials. Whether
from inspiration or not, he put his
finger on the bone of contention.
For this bone civilization as we
know it is destined to be wiped
out.
Why all the hullabaloo over raw
materials? After all, behind the
question of colonization, expansion
and conservation of national exis-
tence is the vital question of raw
materials. AS uneauitable as it
may seem, three great nations,
Great Britain, America and France
either own outright or control two
thirds of all the raw materials in
the world. In other words, these
nations, with collective popula-
ton of 215,OO0,0OO, have or con-
troll twice as much of the raw ma
terials of the world as the other
nations of the earth, with a col
lectiye population of 1885, 900, 900.
With the possible exception of
Japan, the most crowded section
of the habitable globe is continent
tai Europe. National existence,
from day to day, is dependent on
the imports of raw materials.
These are either cheap or dear in
proportion as national currencies
will buy more or less, but here is
the rub: New York, London and
Paris control the value of contin-
entail Europe's currency. Contin-
entail interests which can not be
reconciled except on the battle
field. But alas; on this battle
field civilization win perish.
Despite the fact that Mussolini
has to grip with natural and hui
man forces is Ethiopia he little
dreamed of when he began, Abyss
sinia will, in all likelihood, be par
titioned, its Emperor made a vasal
and its population subjugated to
foreign rule. However little or
much of its territory Italy takes
will only delay but cannot stop the
oncoming conflict. Italy in con-
troll of Ethiopia, though it be but
a corridor, stretching from Erit-
rea on the North to Italian Soma
liland on the South, threatened
Egyptian Soudan and Englands
line of communication with India,
her pearl of great price"
This and only this is why Great
Britain is leading France and the
other nations of the League to
punish Italy for breech of Coven-
ant. Neither England nor France
nor any of the other nations, for
that matter, care a boot for Eth
Iopia. If Egypt and India, with
their vast stores of raw materials,
were not endangered by Italy's le-
gions in Lydia and her U boats in
the Mediterranean, Ethiopia would
have been flung graciously at It
aly's feet.
BY what process of reasoning,
moreover, did the League of Ma
tions reach the conclusion that ia
pan deserved q mere paper con-
domination for snnexing Manchur-
ia, and Italy financial and econo-
mic sanctions for attempting to do
exactly the same thing with Ethio-
pia Both nations had solemnly
pledged to respect the territorial
integrity of every other member
of the League, and both nations
broke their pledge Is it possible
that the seven thousand miles of
old oceans gray and melancholy
waste which lies between Geneva
and Japan, influence the Leagues
decision that Mussolini must at all
costs be checked in Ethiopia less
Hitler breaks loose and annex
Austria, sieze the Polish Corridor,
Mcneil and even Alsace-Lorraine
In any case, all the material for
war of extinction is being stir
red in the national caIdrons of
continental Europe. Every nation
is armed to the teeth. Great Bri-
tain suddenly finds that most of
her battle ships are archaic and
she has not nearly so many air
planes and U boats as she needs.
Indeed. the present National Gov