Evening star., 1935-04-08
JOURNALIST SEES
WAR IN EUROPE
Overthrow of "Madmen"
Only Escape, Bouton Tells
Town Hall.

War in Europe is inevitable un-
less the mad men-the paranoics
and fanatics" in power in Germany
and other countries are overthrown,
S. Miles Bouton, journalist and for
mer war correspondent, declared last
night before a Town Hall audience
In the Shoreham Hotel.
He singled out as the most dan
eerous point in the present situation
Germany. the country he was forced
to leave recently when his methods
of reporting became lrksome to the
Nazi government
Chancellor Adolph Hitler makes
the Kaiser look like a pacifist," Bou-
ton said.
Germany has been rearming since
1920. The National Socialists are
forcing on the German people the
idea that Germans must impose their
character. ideals and beliefs upon the
rest of the world. German children
are being taught in the church and
in the schools that war is positive
gooC, that it creates as it destroys
The young men of Germany are being
told that blood only can wash out
dishonor," he said.
Bouton said the chancellor of the
Third Reich is mystic who appeals
20 the mystically inclined Germans. 4"
Hitler does not want war He
simply wants to march into the Polish
Corridor or Bohemia and say, Here
We are and here we stay, so don't get
unpleasant
against Civilization"
Il make no phophecies as to the
lineup, but the next war will be
Germany against twentieth century
culture, civilization and democracy"
he said.
Bouton viciously attacked the treaty
of Versailles as "a document of hatred
and vengeance" which cut Europe
into iigsaW puzzle in the most
sweeping and momentous happenings
since the Reformation and the Thirty
Years War"
The men who drew up the peace
treaties of the World War were SOW
ing dragons teeth" he said. Those
men did a bad job and unless a
solution is found, Europe will be
thrown back into the Middle Ages"
He declared there would have been
no Hitler except for the Versailles
treaty.
IF German-Austria had come to
Germany" he said, this Austrian
corporal might not have risen so far
There were so many stupidities in
these treaties" he continued, Ger
many was done a great injury by
them, particularly in taking away the
Saar Territory. The Saar never was
anything but German and it was a
stupid provocation for Germany in
placing the basin under the gov
eminent of the League of Nations
In fact, plebiscite held in all these
territories taken from Germany would
undoubtedly have favored the father
land"
Bouton declared there is not
World War treaty which has not been
broken and there never will be any
treaties that will not be broken.
Questioned on League.
He declared also that I'VE have
shirked our manifest duty in not
joining the League of Nations" He
was quizzed later on this statement
by Lothrop Stoddard writer on in
ternational affairs, and a member of
the panel.
In view of the critical situation
which you have described as existing
in Europe now, it seems strange that
you should advocate that the United
States join the League" Stoddard said.
Many observers say the league does
not amount to anything. How could
it when the richest and most powerful
OF all the nations is outside" Bouton
replied.
william T. Stone, vice president of
the Foreign Policy Association, asked
Bouton if he didn't think that at the
end Of another war more stupid, un-
fair" treaties would be drawn up. In
answering Bouton quoted German
philosopher as saying: I'VE learn
from history"
Bouton said he could not help but
view the situation pessimistically and
declared 1--WE can thank God for the
Atlantic Ocean"
The panel at the meeting also in
cluded Karl Paul Polanyi, former edi-
tor of the Austrian Economist and a
leader of the Hungarian student move
ment: Karl Won Lewinski former Ger
man consul general to the United
States, and Franklin Roudybush. di-
rector Of the Roudybush School of
Foreign Service. Chairman John w.
Studebaker presided.