Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 16

ta v 16 War Ogres Lying Beneath i All Advance in Europe __ _(Continued from First Page.) to accept a condition which now ex- ists on the east. Germany suffered more. on the | whole, in ‘my judgment. than any of | the other European belligerents, with the exception of Russia, which is out of the reckoning. She suffered longer and the inflation agony was as bad as the worst of the war. The great mass | of the German people have the same horror of a new conflict as the people of any other nation. Moreover, the informed recognize that a mew gen eral war, whether Germany won or lost, would spell ruin, by reason of the' economic devastation which would be inevitable. Living Is a Question But, and the point is all important the mass of Germans do not believe | ier n live under e: 'or themn the reunion of lost provinces of the cast. the rec struction of is pre- cisely as imy E v for Frenchman and trade for the Bri . And if France, in allisnce with Poland and Czechoslovakia: if Britain and Belgium, in alliance with ance, un dertake to hold Germany within her | present limits, or seek to cternize any | frontier save those in the west. it is almost impossible to believe in an perm n ance of this sitnation or soclation with the west ern nations inside or out of the League of Nations Yiindenbur election does not | mean a man desire for a new war. N other German could have be elected on the Nationalist ticket, the preliminary vote showed. More. | over, even lHindenburg is a minority president. since the sum of the Marx nd Communist votes exceeded h He was elected largely because of the | sentimental name had. In 2. Lee would have heen elected by the South to any office he could have run for after the Civil War, had he chosen to be a_can didate and had he been eligible. That would not have meant that the South was not beaten or that it wanted a new war. Republic Is Blamed. Yet sentiment by no means ex plains the ilindenburg vote. There | are millions of Germans who asso- clate Germany’s present helplessne: with the republican regime. who re- call the grandeur of the empire, the prosperity of the ofher days and the | mparative misery now. They be-| lieve that a weak republican leader- | ship has brought Germany to her | present state, and that a return to| the oid order would mean a return to the old prosperity, and. above all. (0 | the condition which Germany | would again be.treated as an equal among the great peoples of the world. The cost of living now and 11 vears ago, the foreign status of Germany then and now, the continued presence of armies of occupation. which the re- | public has not been able to remove: the presence of a hostile Polish fron- tier as near to Berlin as Wilmington. Del., is to Washington, the failure of the allied armies to retire from the Cologne zone and the general bellef that the French mean alwavs to stay on the middle Rhine, these are cir-| cumstinces, which, taken in conjunc tion with the popularity of the oid marshal himself, explain his election. Germans Want Peace. Yet the German people, in m. ment, want peace as ¥rench or the British, but on condi-| tons, just as their neighbors do. | 1f. I vepeat, the British are ready to| direct their foreign policy In any way to promote trade and thus to permit | existerce; if the French are similarly ready 1o do anything consistent with | national safety to insure peace, the Germans seek peace, but with the deliberate understanding that within that area of peace Germany must be allowed to be what her population and resources entitle her to be, name 1v. a great and independent country, possessed of these lands, which every German regards as rightfully hers by yeason of the social character of the inhabitants. Meanwhile one must nize the rise of two very considerable nd important new states. Poland, with nearly 30,000.000 people, rapidly increasing in population, with vast vesources, agricultural, industrial. | with an efficient army and a popula- | tion resolved to defend its pres frontiers to the last gasp, is by means a negligible factor. In conceivable way, save as the result of a successful war, could Germany re- claim from Poland a foot of soil which was once hers, albeit taken originally from the Poles. But, to wage a suc asainst Poland Germany would have | 1o ralse armies vastly in excess of | the limits imposed by the treaty of Versailles, and no one can imagine | France would permit this to happen. | belisving that these armies, having disposed of Poland, would be turned against France, and recalling that a similarly supine policy in 1866, when Prussia’ attacked Austria, led to the| debacle of 1870, when Krance, alone, v Nor can one be. ve that Czechoslovakia, with its Jarge German minority, would stand | idly by while Poland was erased, | knowing full well that it would be predestined to be the second victim. Demonstrate Capacities. Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, too, are demonstrating their economic capaci- | ties as going national concerns. They | have halanced their budget. ilized their currencies undertaken great de- velopments in the way of railroad con- struction. And there has been a| of national sentiment e. These races, which for long gener- ations have been subject to alien domination, have, with their escape, reacted to liberty in a fashion which is at once impressive and fascinating. But there, in all its complexity, rises the new European problem, new only in the loosest sense, for at bot tom it is the oldest of the problems of modern Europe. Great Britain sees that Germany must, within a period | of vears, recover, as did France after 1815, and become one of the pmimary powers of RKurope. She sees clearly enough that this Germany might uc- cept her western frontiers, might gurrender her shadowy claim to Al-| sace-Lorraine, that the French need | for security might be thus had. On the other hand, Britain sees that Germany will not accept her eastern frontiers, that to attempt to guarantce these against Germany is to a-range probable, if not inevitable, conflict in | the future. Therefore the British | propose that Germany, in return fir| western promises, shall be permitted | to cherish eastern hopes, which amounts to a recognition that in some | fashion Poland must be brousht 'l glve up German-coveted lands aad| Czechoslovakia at least to consent to the union of Austria with Germany, al judg incerely as th h, also recog- essful war 1 | 2 2L Y | BRIDES What More Wonderful Treasure of This Great Event Than a Clinedinst Bridal-Portrait See Our Special Offer on Page 5 Today's Rotogravure Section CLINEDINST STUDIO /,- Z 2L III7 11 L1121 LTSI LTI LI Ip | we | many, | man: of i 3 | the face of the victorio lin | for LI LT EAL L PR P00 7 LT LY (L7 THE SUNDAY STAR, Arranged Card Party despite the obvious menace to har of such a union, France, beaten upon by this British ropos asks the obvious ques e I abandon Poland and echoslovakia, with whom T am in lliance; suppose 1 surrender the ob vious value of their rong armi which would march with mine in case of German aggression, how shall 1 then be sure that Germany would not | attack , ultimately? Where is my rtainty of securif 1 leave the' Middle Rhine, as well? | To all of which the British reply ou must, because it is the only hope. and we believe the Germ mean to keep the peace in the will even underwrite the zain.” “Underwrite it with what. with how many divisions?” the French eply. But the British refuse such underwriting, beltev, that this means a hostile alliance ngainst Ger- a _challenge whic the - will take up. Moreover nd comes the clear message to . ““Abandon us If you will, but 1l fight. and If we fight. what ace and what of your sec Germany from which has destroyed us? There as piainly as 1 the situation as I found Berlin, in Wa Everywhere the sa 3 sire for peace, the same lection of recent wounds partially healed, the same intelle appreciation of the fact that for concerned, for all Europe en: 1 or MISS IRENE . & mew strugzle would mean | Chairman of the committee of the ite and utter ruin: yet at the | Teachers’ Union, which gave a card ne time the total inability to find a | party at the College Women's Club means of using the universal desire | yesterday afternoon to raise funds for peace as a force to remove the | ihe national campaign in the interest obstacles which all see with absolute | of the child labor amendment to the charity, but om totally -different | Constitutio everal hundred persons points of view, attended. More than prizes, donated by Washington merchants, were dis- tributed to winners. The Teachers' be | Union is one of the 28 organizations tion | working for the child labor amend- n put it is | in London, tual | NDERSON, The Impossible Question. Can _England trade, 1 safe, Germany attain that commensurate with her population. | ment. resources and national will, Poland | and Czechoslovakia retain their terri- | torial integrity and economic inde- | &t pendence, all at the same time? No, | convictions? No, obviously no. again obviously no. Can England, in the | But is the alternative a new interest—the imperious interests—of [ Certainly not a new war in a her existence persuade France to |€nt time. Europe, in the judgment trust Germany. Poland to sacrifice her | Of the wisest men with whom I talked. national territory, Czechoslovakia to | i3 entering a period of peace. just as allow German territory practically to | She did after the Napoleonic warsand surround her. prevail upon Germany | JUSt as she did after the wars of Louis to adopt policies and methods which | ~!V. Exhaustion and all its attending would reassure her neighbors, even | Circumstances make wai totally un- ance Dos the cost of abandoning national Frhe AMPICO in the %nahg i The mechanics of piano-playing are forgotten as vour ears delight in listening to the AMPICO. o ?pabe Moods and temperaments and subtleties of senti- ment are the chief concern of the reproducing powers of this marvelous ALL OF THE PIANO. 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The workingmen of Europe know now and fully what Russia’s experience has been. The red peril may be written ofi now. Russia is a danger only as she is able to throw her army against her neighbors or in- trigue in a few regions like Bulgaria, the Near East and the center of Asia. In Poland, where proximity might seem to be a danger, there does not exist even the smallest apprehension of ‘bolshevism as a domestic problem. That phase is over. Not Recovering Politically. But politically. in the broadest sense. Europe is not recovering because in all the history of modern Europe no solution has been found to the com- plicated question of races. If France were able to feel safe along the Rhine she would certainly have as little con- cern for the Vistula as the British. But she cannot feel safe, and indeed she cannot be safe, if Germany raises great armies and overwhelms Poland zechoslovakia and annexes Aus. et, after all, can 000,000 peo- ple permanently consent to be | titioned, as they feel themselves to be now, or prevented from ympleting WASHINGTON, D. C,, MAY 1 the national integration which has been permitted to Poland, to many of the smaller tribes of Kurope? Or will Poland consent to a new partition that Europe may have peace, France se- curity and Britain markets We are to have peace in iurope for a long period of time—peace in the sense of an absence of fighting— but of peace in the sense of any recon- clliation between the races who must be reconciled if peace is to be real, T could find no real evidence: the most one might detect was a growing recog- nition that without such peace ISurope was in the end doomed. and the pre ent recovery was comparable whol With that of a cancer patient. fatally stricken, but making a temporary re- covery from the first but unsuccessfu! operation. e The Hindenburg election has been a catastrophe because it has served to every apprehension and -alyze every effort at adjustment based upon the assumption of German £ood faith and desire for peace. But it does mot in my judgment mean war | or even any immediate change in C | man domestic conditions, Germany is now: electing Hindenburg give her a single new re 0, 1 helpless does not git source; portion land, perhaps all of it, will be occupied for 10 or 15 years: her disarmament performance will be much more closely | studied than before. Even the rea tionaries who mean to regain control olutely can appreciate that now any coup d'etat would bring invasion | and ruin which would be charged to them. To sum up. |as a result | everywhere T should s of my journey I found stonishing economic re- | covery, everywhere the evidence that | men and women had gone work? that the danger then that at least of the Rhine- | 925—PART 2. NEWS OF THE CLU (Continued from Fifte at 1h. can was hostess meeting of the c Mr: Wilcox introduced Miss Heiges, who gave a talk on i decorating. M Preston Goulder were guests. Washingto Baldwin meeting at Moore, Alumnae held its the home of of the national conference lege, which was held in | April 21. The Hon | Cabin Joh I club from Poolesville at the home of Mi |county demonstr | Luncheon was | Miss V.M. K n service, Demonstration ( Md., Th Blanche « tor, in ved after ler se | domestic distur outbreaks, had vwhere there e longing for peace s born of immediate 1 experience and agony, underncath all th un e nd o 2d natic brought and. in the 1k and hopes and rac sities which o SO many wars. | tuture, seems today | to still anothe Miss 1680 Thirty-first street. Margaret W. Daniel gave an account immemorial clash of BS nth Page.) the previous | of Mrs. W. R. H. Celeste fterior Roy Pierce and Mrs Chapter of the “Mary | Spring Ella Miss of the chairmen of the alumnae campaign in behalf of the Mary Baldwin Col- aunton, Va., ‘lub of | . Md., met with that ame day wi ur. 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Valeria Parker, chairman of the an Hygiene 'Association and esident of the New York Soroptimist Club, invited the members to the social hygiene meeting of the quinquennial 10 e held tonight. Miss Caroline King, associate edi- the Curtis Publishing Co. and a ser of the Philadelphia Sorop st Club, was also a guest. Other uests of honor included Mile. Romnici no of Rumania, Mrs. David Allen Camphell, director of the department of music for the quinquennial; Mrs. William Atherton de . past presi dent of the ue of Ameri can Pen Mrs. Lucy { the mational [ countries rep Dickinson Marx sang nthem of each of the sented. Mrs. Georgia JBowen ac panied her at the piano. Mrs. Fihel Knight Pollard, president f the club, presided. BROTHERHOOD OFFICERS SCORED AT CONVENTION Six Directors of Rail Clerks’ Unlon Reprimanded for Part in Suit Against Grand President. By the Associated Press. 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