The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-07

ever you like, so it is and so it will
remain until humanity is made in
another mold.
Germany, Japan and Italy. there
tore. are the present danger spots
because they are the most powerful
OF the have nots." Unless the prin-
clpal "haves"-notably Great Brit
ain, Soviet Russia, France and
China-by some miracle can find a
satisfactory solution, an early COL
lision is inevitable
Sir Samuel Hoare, former British
foreign minister-and a far ADLER
statesman than recent events may
lead casual observers to believe
very clearly sees the handwriting
Just before he took the rap for the
Inflated Italo- Ethiopian peace pro-
posal, he told the League of Ma
tons:
1T Is not enough to insist COL
|lectively that war shall occur, or that
war, If it occurs, shall be brought to
an end. Something must be done
to remove the causes from which war
is apt to rise"
Sir Samuel thereupon warned, in
effect. that what is driving Japan,
Germany and Italy to war is the lack
OF essential colonial raw materials
and the fear that, in time of great
est need, such materials would be
withheld from them.
Suggested World Inquiry
He suggested world inquiry, and
that in such inquiry emphasis
should fall upon the free distribu-
ton OF such raw materials among
industrial countries which require
them SO that all fear of exclusion
and monopoly would be removed
once and for all.
Going a step further, George
Lansbury, Labor Party leader, later
moved in the House of Commons:
THAT this house affirms it's pro-
found belief in the futility of war,
views with grave concern the world
wide preparations for war, and is of
the opinion that, through the
League of Nations. His Majesty's
government should make an imme-
date effort for the summoning of a
new international conference to deal
with the economic factors which
are eSponsible-Such as the neces-
sity for access to raw materials and
to markets and for the migration of
peoples with view to arriving at
an international agreement which
will remove from the nations the in
centive to pile up ornaments, and
establish the peace of the world on
a sure foundation"
Stopped Short of Mark
Former Prime Minister Lloyd
George went beyond Hoare or even
Lansbury. He told Commons he
did not believe there would be peace
in the world until the question of
mandates was reconsidered.
But even he stopped short of the
mark. Wildly he illustrated the
well nigh hopeless task ahead of
Europe if it calls such conference
as he and the others suggested. For
while he dramatically cited how lit
tie Belgium had got "the best part
OF German East Africa" and how
little Portugal and Holland own
vast tropical colonies, he neglected
to mention that little Britain sways
one-fourth the land surface of the
globe or that the empire holds the
lions share of German mandates.
More obviously still, he failed to
suggest sharing British mandates
with Italy, which he observed has
few colonies, or with Germany,
which has none. Nippon, of course,
is doing very well by herself.
European statesmen see that the
demands of Germany, Italy and
Japan for room to expand are bring
ing war nearer by the hour. But
they are human so they want ma
lions other than their own to make
the sacrifices necessary to avert the
impending calamity.
No one here, however, seriously
expects any sweeping reshuffling of
the mandates. AS for any solution
short of providing Germany, Italy
and Japan with colonies, or their
equivalent, few believe one possible.
The Hoare plan, which may be re-
vived, simply would not work.
The reason is simple. In time of
peace, raw materials are always
available. Nations lacking them can
import them. 1t is in time of war
that such materials become a mat
ter of life or death, and it is pre-
cisely then that they can not always
be obtained. Every nation, there