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War Ogres Lying Beneath | 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 new 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 Germany can live under existing con- ditions. " For them the reunion of the lost provinces of the east, the recon- struction of a great Germany, is pre- cigely as important as security for the Frenchman and trade for the Briton. And it France, in alliance with Poland and Czechoslovakia; if Britain and Belgium, in alliance with France, un- dertake to hold Germany within her present limits, or seek to eternize any frontier save those in the west, it is almost impossible to believe in any permanent German acceptance of this situation or assoclation with the west- ern nations inside or out of the League of Nations. Hindenburg's election does not mean a German desire for a new war. No other German could have been elected on the Nationalist ticket, as the preliminary vote showed. More- over, even Hindenburg is a minority president, since the sum of the Marx and Communist votes exceeded his. He was elected largely because of the sentimental appeal his name had. In the same way Robert E. Lee would have been 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 Hindenburg vote. There are millions of Germans who asso- clate Germany's present helplessness with the republican regime. who re- call the grandeur of the empire, the prosperity of the ofher days and the comparative misery now. They be- leve that a weak republican leader- ship has brought Germany to her present state, and that a return to the old order would mean a return to the old prosperity, and, above all, t6 the condition in which Germany would again be,treated as an equal among the great peoples of the world. The cost of living now and 11 years 2go, the foreign status of Germany then and now, the continued presence of armies of occupation, which the re- public has not been able to remov: the presence of a hostile Polish fron- tler 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 belief that the French mean always to stay on the middle Rhine, these are cir- cumstances, which, taken in conjunc- tion with the popularity of the old marshal himself, explain his election. Germans Want Peace. Yet the German people, in my judg- ment, want peace as sincerely as the French or the British, but on condi- tons, just as their neighbors do. If, I repeat, the British are ready to direct their foreign policy in any way to promote trade and thus to permit existence; if the French are similarly ready to 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- 1y, a great and {ndependent country, possessed of these lands, which every German regards as rightfully hers by reason of the social character of the inhabitants. Meanwhile one must also recog- nize the rise of two very considerable and important new states. Poland, with nearly 30,000,000 people, rapidly increasing in population, with vast resources, agricultural, _industrial, with an efficient army and a popula- tion resolved to defend its present frontiers to the last gasp, is by no means a negligible factor. In no conceivable way, save as the result of @ successful war, could Germany re- claim from Poland a foot of soil which was once hers, albeit taken or{ginally from the Poles. But, to wage a successful war against Poland Germany would have to raise armies vastly in excess of the limita imposed by the treaty of Versailles, and no one can imagine France would permit this to happen, believing 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 France, alone, was overwhelmed. Nor can one be- lieve 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 balanced their budgets, stabilized their currencies undertaken great de- velopments in the way of railroad con- struction. And there has been a renaissance of national ‘which is impressive. ‘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 years, recover, as did France after 1815, and become one of the pmimary powers of Europe. She sees clearly enough that this Germany might ac- cept her western frontiers, might surrender her shadowy claim to Al- sace-Lorraine, that the French need Cor 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 arrange probable, if not inevitable, conflict in the future. Therefore the British propose that Germany, in return for ‘western promises, shall be permitted to cherish eastern hopes, which amounts to a recognition that in some fashion Poland must be brought *o glve up German-coveted lands aad Czechoslovakia. at least to consent to the union of Austria with SGermany, sentiment LLIIIII TSI II IR AP 1T 0 1 2P I P11 4277007 BRIDES ‘What More Wonderful Treasure of This Great Event Than a Clinedinst 4 Bridal-Portrait N See Our Special Offer on Page 5 | Today’s Retogravare Section CLINEDINST STUDIO 7L II I IIII P I I 1177, despite the obvious menace to her ¢ such a union. ARk France, beaten upon by this British proposition, asks the obvious ques- tion: *“Suppose I abandon Poland and Czechoslovakia, with whom I am in alliance; suppose 1 surrender the ob- vious value of their strong armies, which would march with mine in case of German aggression, how shall I then be sure that Germany would not attack me, ultimately? Where is my certainty of security if 1 leave the Middle Rhine, as well?" To all of which the British reply You must, because it is the only hope, and we believe the Germans mean to keep the peace in the West. We will even underwrite the bar- ‘Underwrite it with what, with how many divisions?” the French reply. But the British refuse such underwriting, belleving that this means a hostile alliance against Ger- many, a challenge which the Ger- mans will take up. Moreover, from Poland comes the clear message to France, “Abandon us If you will, but we shall fight, and If we fight, what of peace and what of your security in the face of the victorious Germany which has destroyed us?” There as plainly as I can put it is the situation as I found it in London, in ‘Berlin, in Warsaw and in Paris. Everywhere the same passionate de- sire for peace, the same vivid recol- lection of . recent wounds still only partially healed, the same intellectual appreciation of the fact that for all concerned, for all Europe engaged or neutral, a new struggle would mean ultimate and utter ruin: yet at the same time the total inability to find a means of using the universal desire for peace as a force to remove the obstacles which all see with absolute charity, but from totally -different points of view. The Tmpossible Question. Can England trade, France be safe, Germany attain that position commensurate with her population, resources and national will, Poland and Czechoslovakia retain their terri- torial integrity and economic inde- pendence, all at the same time? No, obviously no. Can England, in the interest—the imperious interests—of her existence persuade France to trust Germany, Poland to sacrifice her national territory, Czechoslovakia to allow German territory practically to surround her, prevail upon Germany to adopt policies and methods which would reassure her neighbors, even THE SUNDAY ' STAR, i i MISS IRENE SANDERSON, Chairman of the commiftee of the Teachers’ Union, which gave s card Col 'omen’s Club yesterday afternoon to raise funds for the national campaign in the interest of the child labor amendment to the Constitution. Several hundred gmm attended. More than 50 prizes, donated by Washington merchants, were dis- tributed to - winners. The Teachers' Union is one of the 28 organizations wnrl:lnl for the. child labor amend- ment. at the cost of abandoning national convictions? No, obviously no, again. But is the alternative a n war? Certainly not a new war in any pres. ent time. Europe, in the judgment of the wisest men with whom I talked, is entering a period of peace, just as she did after the Napoleonic warsand just as she did after the wars of Louis XIV. Exhaustion and all its attending circumstances make war totally un- e AMPICO in the Sknaht The mechanics of piano-playing are forgotten as your ears delight in listening to the AMPICO. Moods and temperaments and subtleties of senti- ment are the chief concern of the reproducin, powers of this marvelous ALL OF TH PIANO. 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ONLY re-enacting medium combined with .America’s Oldest and Finest Piano Let us make you an allowance for your present Upright Grand or Player-Piano likely for one decade, for two decades, perhaps for a quarter of a century. But beyond that relatively limited pe- riod what? There is the great, the outstanding question today. Discounts Russ Menace. Economically Europe is recovering, the continent faster than the Brll'lll.h Islands for obvious reagons, France faster than any continental nation. The new states, and particularly Po- land, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia, are rapidly consolidating themselves %:n d’.mmnl“.bo mdfl(mn‘ nations. e danger of levism—the bo of many American oro. know now and fully what Russia’ experience has been. The red peril may be written off 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 .:J;(ole;:nl the smallest apprehension of 'bolshevism .as a domestic problem. That phase is over. L Not Recovering Politically. But politically, in the broadest sense, Europe is not recovering because in 11 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 cannof feel safe, and indeed she cannot be safe, if Germany raises great armies and overwhelms Poland and Czechoslovakia and annexes Aus- tria; yet, after all, can 65,000,000 peo- ple permanently consent ‘to be par- titioned, as they feel themselves to be now, or prevented from completing ' WASHINGTON, ‘D. G the national integration which has been permitted to Poland, to many of the smaller tribes of Europe? 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 Europe for a long period of time—peace in the sense of an absence of fighting- but of peace in the sense of any recon- ciijation between the races who must be reconciled if peace is to be real, I could find no real evidence: the most one might detect was a growing recog- nition that withont such peace Lurope was in the end doomed, and the pres- ent recovery’ was comparable wholly. with' that of ‘a cancer patient, ratally stricken, but:making a temporary covery from the first but unsuccessfu! operation. T ‘The Hindenburg election has been'a catastrophe because it has served to stimulate every apprehension and paralyze every effort at adjustment based upon the assumption of German good faith and desire for peace. But it does not in my judgment mean war or even any immediate change in Ger- man domestic conditions. Germany is helpless now; _electing Hindenburg does mnot give her a single new re- source; portions at least of the Rhine- land, perhaps all of it, will be occupied for 10 or 15 years; her disarmament rformance will be much more clogely. studied than before. ' Even the reac- tionaries who mean to regain control absolutely can appreciate that now any coup d'etat would bring invasion and ruin which would be charged to them. To sum up, then, I should say that as a result of miymyourney I {ound everywhere ‘ustonishing economic re- covery, sverywhere the evidence that men, znd women had gone back to work! that the dangers of social and MAY '10, 1925_PART 2. NEWS OF THE CLUBS (Continued from Fifteenth Page.) can was hostess at the previous meeting of the club. Mrs. R. H. Wilcox introduced Miss Celeste Helges, who gave a“talk on idterior decorating. Mrs. Roy Pierce and Mrs. Preston Goulder were guests. “Mary Wi ngton Chapter th ';u.v'fhh-h‘.unmnu held'v‘llul."spflng meating at the home of Miss Ella Moore, 1680 Thirty-first sireet: Miss Margaret W. Daniel gavg an account of the national conference of the chairmen of the alumnae campaign in bebalf of the Mary Baldwin Col- lege, which was held In Staunton, Va., April 21. % The Home Demonstration Club of Cabin John, Md., met with that same club from Poolesville, Md., Thursday, at the home of Miss Blanche Corwin, county demonstrator, in Rockville. Luncheon was served after which Miss V. M. Kellar, State leader, exten- sion service, University of Maryland, — domestic disturbances. Bolshevistic outbreaks, had disappeared; that everywhere there was the same pas- sionate longing for peace and horror of war born of immediate and per- sonal experlence and agony, but that underncath all there was unmistak- ably that immemorial clash of fears and hopes and racial and national ne- cessities which has brought Europe to so-many wars, and, in the-distant future, seems. today likely 10, bring it to still another. (Copyright, 1025.) gave a talk.on Stats work. E. J. Murphy, Washington, D. C., spoke on Interfor’ and exterfor painting. and P. R, Wagner, pastor Baptist Church of Rockville, entertained in charming manner. The next meeting of the club wiil be held May 14, at the home of Mrs. W. E. Davis. Soroptimist Club. — Mme. Clara Guthrie d'Arcis, president of the ‘World Union of Women for Interna- tional Concord and delegate from Switzerland to the international coun- addressed the club at its Juncheon nesday at the Lafayetite Hotel. Mme. d’Arciz has been invited by Lady Aberdeen to deliver the adiress on ‘“Peace” on the program of the quinquennial, May 12. ’ 5 Mile. Sanua, delegate from France to the quinquennial and member of the Soroptimist Club of Paris, ht greetings from her country and the Parisian Soroptimist: Dr, Valeria Parker, chairman of the American Hygiene Association and president of the New York Soroptimist Club, invited the members to the social hygiene meeting of the quinquennial to be held tonight. Miss Caroline King, associate edi- tor of the Curtis Publighing Co. and a member of the Philadelphia Sorop: timist Clubj was also.a. guests of honor included MH ano of Rumania, Mrs. David Allen Campbell, director of the department of music for the quinquennial; Mrs. ‘William Atherton de Puy, past presi- dent of the National League of Ameri- can Pen Women. Mrs. Lucy Dickinson Marx sang the national anthem of each of the cil, w countries - represented. Mrs.. Georgla Bowen Accompanied her atithe piano. 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