Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1922, Page 9

0. STOGNEBAGK | * ALEN PROPERTES i Thirty Thousand Trusts Seized During War Will Be Returned Soon. Decision has been reached by ad- ministration leaders to press for en- actment at the present session of | Congress legislation which will au- thorize the release of some 30.000 trusts, valued at from $1.000 to $10, 000, held by the alien property cus- | todian. Conferences on the subject between Thomas W. Miller, the cus- todian and other government officlals ; led to preparations today by M Miller to go before the House com- merce committee at an early date and renew his recommendation of legis- lation along? the line of the pending Winslow bill. According” to official estimates the small trusts held by the custodian epresent more than 93 per cent of the total number and these could be released without depleting the ag- | gregate sum below the total neces-, sary to protect any counter claims | by Americans against Germany. 1t developed today that there {s some : difference of opinion among government officials as to the sum which should be held to protect the American claims, totaling $500.000,000. Of these claims ahout §180.000,000 grew out of tho sink- All for $1 Special Christmas Offer: 2 dozen five<cent packages Little Sun-Maid Raisins— $1.20 worth—all for $1. Make 2 dozen kiddies happy with them. Stick them in the uwchufis. Let the little people hand them out to little friends as Christmas gifts. Lustious, healthful Christmas sweetmeats, both good and good for them. Get them now—in a card- board carton—24 all for $1—at any store. Little Sun-Maids “Christmas Raisins”’ Sc Everywhere Had Your Iron Today? | | i I Uric Acid struggle. violated line. ers in_Hungary from themselves. These facts, histors account which in by others no. and Europe of tod: yesterda reattained national seen that treaties the In the same . L < THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ) pared the awakening. Against the German imperialism of 1914 Serbia de- fended its sovereignty. security, France and Belgium their invaded territory. fended threatened coast that has elapsed since has accentu- ated the origin and the cause of the In 1915 Italy prepares to respond to the appeal of the Irredent Rumania aspires to 1iberate her broth- Magyars. In 1917 it is Greece, which, despite her king, sets off to free Macedonla and the Ionian islands. year, finally, America enters upon the scene under her own flag. conscious of the danger ahead and of the duty | of the present, namely, vindication of ithe right of people to dispose of the | Russia her Great Britain 4 and her comprise the frontiers traced remain, save in Turkey. whether one likes Is no longer the Europe of France and unity. Poland, Finland und the Baltic states made their appearance again in the life of nations, nent. Dual Ordenl Faced. Never at one and the same time has such an upheaval shaken our conti- That everything should work smoothly, without quarrels and the like, no one imagined for a moment. To speak frankly, it almost seems as if the settling down process has been the that peace The Serbla assumed in creating so many nations and states? I do not criticize; I state the fact. And I do so in order to add that .we French who have bled from Europe’s troubles through the centu- ries, we French could mnot repudiate this responsibility with a light heart even did we desire to. Why? Because a return to the past would mean our subversion, as it would imply an_end of that liberty %o long awaited. That is a truth to which I do not think overmuch attention or thought is given in England and the United States. Many nce annoys us in alwaya speaking to us about respecting treaties and in comnmnln‘ 'henk(h'lrd\'ioll-‘ tion is organized.” I ask pardon of my critics, but we have no choice. We have neither a choice morally or. ma- terially. Rekindle Resolve to Live. Morally, it was the French ideal v of the war, were taken into and the French spirit which perme- drawing up This peace was ratified by None the less it | ated this new Europe. It was Alsace- Lorraine that for half & century in- carnated the ideal of nationality tri- umphant in 1918. Beholding Alsatians 1d Lorrainers suffering patiently and ]nrmly for half aecentury, Bohemia begun to dream of liberty; Poland, it Ttaly have | dissected cruelly in three, commenced Neither one nor the other could have fore- such would supervene with- a It is attained. have more than doubled Bohemia, have to consider a possible reparation she had scarcely dared to think of. From Strasburg and Metz, the Tyrol, the Trentino, Istria, Croatia, Slovakia, Transylvania, Macedonja, Ionia, the Wallons éf Belgium and the Danes of Schleswig derived confidence in the It was at the Alsace-Lo 'rfllno fireside that the oppressed pe ples rekindled their resolve to liv ‘anll to be free. Alsace and Lorraine provided the substance of these hopes, of these resolves. And by an achie ment of justice the same treaty which liberated these peoples caused the message of freedom to ine forth re- splendent throughout Europe. Amer- icans are too proud of their own his- tory not to understand that we are proud of this. !sume that these two countries went raving mad in 1914 and in 1917, re- spectively, and although people have ;said many things they have not yet said that. There is, therefore, nothing more natural than the attaghment of France to the European statito established in 1919. It Is no caprice; it is a neces- sity. Still, if our friends over the seas have not grasped the fact quite clearly, that is perhaps because we have not proclaimed it forcibly enough, because, above all, our acts these last three years have insuffi- clently indicated”. our own mind France aspires to no political su premacy. She desires to be the men. tor of nobody. None the less, by her role in war and peace, by her geo- graphical situation, by respect for her past and anxiety for her future, she iss better qualified than anybody else to state the case, fn simple lan- guage and for the benefit of friends who have the good fortune to be protected by the ocean, the common conclusions of continental people ever suffering. Policy is Lalsser Faire. France since 1920 has had no con- tinental policy. She has concluded two quite small accords with Belgium and with Poland. Apart from that, sho has pursued the policy of “laisser fair n regard to Italy, she did not comprehend that a general dis- cussion was necessary if our neigh- bors, so long accustomed to the diplomacy of the triple alliance, were to gain an impression of durability from the newly constituted Europe. In 1920 France assisted from afar at the birth of the little entente with- out understanding what friendly ad- vances required to be made to Italy. But could one have imagined that by pursuing such @ policy she compli- cated her relations with England? One knows, on the other hand. alas! D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1922. the fact that in grave times a com- mon bond unites all. What could be better than that Leondon and Wash- ington should understand France's desire—for the better organization of the peace—to group around her these countrias whicii have suffered ihe same dangers as hersclf, fought against the same misfortune, known the same trials, and which, in short, have been cerated by the same hard- ships? § At no moment in the past three years have English or Americans been aware of the existence of this grouping, d that is why Europe has 80 often appeared to them to be a continent of anarchy. How could ft be otherwise in the presence of these non-co-ordinated states grasping out after fortune and opportunity as each | new shock overwhelms them? Every- | body seems to have been surprised, ! caught napping, these last three years by overything that has happened in Europe. ~ When the soviets threw themselves on Poland in 1920; when Germany signs the treaty of Rapallo with them in 1932; when. the Turks reappedr drunk with ambitiop on the terrain of their former excesses, no one has sought to scheme things out. but has just improvised. [ Concerning Reactions. It would have been otherwise if,! foreseeing the likelthood of certain events, an exchange of views upon them had followed, directed by defi- i nite and openly announced prin&lple !The likely reaction to given events of England and America is broadly known, because these elements are notoriously in accord in a number of things. But one never can tell the probable reaction of continental Eu- rope, sinck no one has ever occupied himself with preparing such an ac- cord, even in an elementary form. To this factor, only to cite one ex- ample, is traceable the recommenda- g- take constructive work in Durope it is upon this new map that one must build. The day when all our friends, firm, at all events, that, despite its ' in England and in America, are con- shortcomings, it satisfles, in the form | vinced of this, that noble pile of which victory gave it, the historical peace yearned for by humanity will aspirations of millions and millions | soon ascend joyously to the heavens, of men, and that If one would under- | a miracle skysecraper. T European? Fragile as it may be, 1 do. not find this new order either de- void of beauty or of grandeur. I af mumu. Ask for the -and-yellow can. of the Lusitania, and some officlals e expressed the opinion that this class of claims, as well as most of the other classifications, will be material reduced when *they come to be adjudi- But there is not only sentiment: thera is the fact. There is not only the ideal; there is security. I have frequent]y recalled the anxious his- of Europe and of France to 1914. I showed the G extending, from the X s as necessary te the blood as the blood s to life, but an excesa of it is bharmful. Too much urie acid me: attended with less difficulty than might have been expected.” The I1b- erated or enlurged countries which through the dust of battle but dimly discerned the new national life com- ing to them, after so many centuries | of vearning. had to face a dual or-! that an opposition policy, a poiley of | tions ‘which English. and American continental inertia, has not prevented | economists, often {il Inspired, have Franco-British relations from often | made to Europe in the past three being troubled in the past three, . A century ago, when Latin 1t must be deduced, thereforc, | America was beinz born into interna- t if we have not played a larger | tional life, the United States. believ- the rearranzing of the Europs | ing with reason that the intervention of their former masters might bring tor e we i t of ibat urle o 7 per ¢ v irst, the restoration of war the Mediterranean, all o G T » d at ouce? Ing in the hands of the ustodis nd, secondly, the creation of | central Europe, and the Mitteleuropa | i B0t Wish 16 oF nEehiet de 3 0y be ample to satisfy legitimate Ameri B s, {menace barring the continent from |peon® jaeking—a subject which one!ten of political protection. PLANTENS claims and that this government would { Antwerp to Bagdad. Today Germany, | piist flaely discuss tamly do not demand that a second assist economic lmprovement by turning | ba ners the smull finds | held for the past six years in neariy 30,000 cases. e ——— RESPONSIBILITY FOR FREE EUROPE always docile to the teachings of p: Germans, is seeking & new formula on the Russian side for her as yet unrealized ambitions, which remain none the less the same. ot Matter of Indifference. Against this peril the map fur- nishes no other guarantee save those allowed for by the treaty. The inde- Monroe doctrine shall be proclaimed | for convalescent Europe, since the position is not identical. 1 only indi- | cate that that European order which | American financlers demand as the condition of their participation in our affairs must come from within, from the continental countries themselve: and not from without. "RED MILL" F£ENUING IMPORTED. ¥ HAARLEM OIL in Capsules Two Great Syndicates. ‘When France negotiates with Great Britain or with the United States she negotiates with two great syndicates. | Great Britain is the British empire, the dominfons which came from so | far to fight beside us; it Is a world firm upon which the sun never sets. In every international problem the pelled to combat their own cause as conscrints of the German army.- Ital- echs, Croatians and men of | Rumania and of Dalmatia had bee pressed into similar hateful service by Austria. It was we allies who gave these peoples thelr liberation, their rebirth. 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