The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-20
nv DAVID p. SENTNER
Ccopyright. 1897, by international
News serVice)

News service)
LONDON, April 20.-This year
will spell war or peace, according
to Anthony Eden, British foreign
secretary.
The signal straight ahead, he
says, shows blood-red.
VIII Europe turn back?
Or at best, is the world to have
an armament civilization?
The recovery being experienced
In Europe is based largely on an
artificial prosperity arising from
the ornaments race, according to
many authorities. Premier Blum
asserts:
at is no longer possible to
consider an international pO-
Iitcal disarmament convention
not having as a complement or
coroIIary an international eco
nomic convention providing for
compromising outlets for the
concerns involved and labor
employed"
Malcolm W. Davis, director OF
the European center Of the Car.
negie endowment for international
peace, declares:
eff you consider the men en-.
gagged in military service and
training and the money engaged
in munition supplies, you have
a huge industrial potential and
q huge industrial problem for
which a solution has to be found
If you really are going to try
prohibition.
"The question seems to be,
what would happen in terms of
unemployment, in terms of re-
adjustment, if you really did
reach any understanding on the
limitation and reduction Of ar
smamentS."
: However, the democratic theory
Is that through opening normal
channels of trade with credits and
currency agreements that the dan
ger of war can be deluged under
q tidal wave of general prosperity.
The developments of the next
few months may reveal whether
the democratic powers can sue.
coed in their aim to buy off
war.
Events might include one or
more of the following:
A disarmament gree IN e n
might be negotiated. Or at
least a western air pact.
Hitler might conclude a series
of bilateral economic pacts.
A gigantic loan might be made
to Germany extending credits tC
be used only for the raw ma
terials Of peace.
France might make economic
and political peace with Ger
many and permit her Russian
alliance to lapse in 1910 with
out renewal. France might take
this step feeling that Britain's
new position as a great military
power safeguards her territory
without need Of reliance on Rus,
Sia.
German colonies might be re.
turned to the League to be oper.
ated in the future through an
international mandate including
Germany. Or Germany might be
granted a mandate by the League
over some of her former colonies.
Hitler might agree to Russia S
participation in a general peace
pact. The collaboration of Ger.
many, Italy. Russia, Britain,
France and Portugal in connec.
ton with the non-intervention
agreement for Spain might be the
forerunner of cooperation on a
greater scale for the liquidation
Of general European troubles.
Diplomats assert there has been
an easing in the international
tension in the last few weeks.
Three major factors are credited
with contributing toward appeaSe
ment Of the international situa
ton. They are: The rising baron
eter Of prosperity in almost al
countries, combined with the new
move for economic disarmament
the non-intervention agreement foI
Spain, and the mammoth British
rearmament program.
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