Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1930, Page 14

A—14 FRANGE CHANGE SECURTY POLEY Turns From World Peace Movements to Stimulate Own Self-Reliance. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Radio to The Star. PARIS, France, August 9.—An impor- | tant change appears to be taking place in the French state of mind. The shell- shock of fear caused by the World War seems to be vanishing. The will to insure Prance's security above all else 1s as strong as ever, but more and more, instead of hoping to realize this security mainly by international peace agree- ments, Prance seems determined hence- forth to rely mainly on its own strength and on that of its allies The French people are disillusioned. ‘They have begun to believe that the rest of the world does not sincerely favor organization of the world for peace. At the same time they are im- pressed by the increasing solidity of their own position. A whole series of what might be called France’s new self-reliance policies is the resui. These embrace: i New French Policies. 1. Complete renovation and strength- ening of the French Navy. 3. Probable reorganization of th army for the purpose of increasing not its numbers, but its immediate effi- ciency. The grand maneuvers which will be held this Fall in Lorraine will comprise over 50,000 men, largest num- der assembled anywhere since the World War. 3. Fortification on the most modern principles of the entire French fron- tier from the North Sea to the Mediter- ranean. 4. Tightening of the system of al- llances which group France with Bel- 2ium, Poland, Rumania, Czechoslo- vakia and Jugoslavia. The French air minister and a group of officers have just paid an important visit to Poland. Czechoslovakia has just held a series of big air maneuvers. Rumania, Jugo- slavia and Czechoslovakia are conclud- ing a series of important commercial . ] THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Women came to the aid of weary firefighters with cold drinks as volunteers waged a battle against fores a 35-mile front in Cape Cod district, near Bourne, Mass. t fires along A. P. Photo. forming Nation’s Poli- tical System. Made Citizen by Serving as Minister to Japan—Also U. S. Envoy. BY WILLIAM HARD. One of the most amazing and most curious careers springing from the en- | virons of the Capital City is that of the | Iowa lawyer, Mr. Charles Pergler, now agreements with Prance and with one another, in which Poland also will perhaps join later. No French Unemployment. 5. Development of colonies. A project is being studied for what, if built, will be one of the greatest rallroads in the world, a line from Algeria to the Niger right across the Sahara Desert, thus uniting French Equatorial and French North Africa. 6. Continuous strengthening of Prance’s economic and financial posi- tion. No country in the world thus far has withstood the present great eco- nomic depression better than France. There still is virtually no unemploy- ment here. French currency today is the strongest in the world. French gold reserves are twice Great Brittain's, second only to those of the United States, and per capita they are the highest in the world. French policy since the World War has been entirely consistent. The great aim was and is in France—security. It is not the aim that is changing, but means. e original French plan was to in- sure French security by insuring in a series of vast agreements the security of the whole world. At the same time, pending this peaceful organization of the world, France sought other safe- guards in the so-called French group of alliances and in the careful cultiva- tion of good relations with other great powers. Peace Pacts and Proposals. This organization of the world was sought in & long series of pacts and proposals, encompassing the following: 1. The covenant of the League of Nations, which France desired to strengthen. 2. The Geneva protocol, destined to strengthen the covenant. 3. The Locarno treaties, intended as & partial substitute for the protocol, which was torpedoed by Great Britain. 4. The Kellogg pact, intended as an instrument to bring the United States in some way into the general peace movement. 5. A Mediterranean pact, proposed by France to Italy and Great Britain prior to and during the London Naval Con- ference, but rejected by them. An Eastern European Locarno, mooted frequently at Paris, but refused consistently by Berlin. 1. Proposals at the London Naval Conference to redefine and so strengthen Article 16 of the League Covenant. 8. The Briand disposal for a Euro- pean Union, which will be discussed at Geneva in September. Sought Rappfochments. In addition, France has at various times sought rapprochments with Great Britain, the United States, Italy and Germany. After 10 years of negotiations along busily engage in trying to reform the political electoral system of the repub- lic of Czechoslovakia. Mr. Pergler is the author of a pro- found treatise on “The Judicial Inter- pretation of International Law in the United States,” and has been dean of the American University School here of economics and government; but his main preoccupation is that of discour- aging and discomfiting Mr. Eduard Benes, who is the Czechoslovakian minister of foreign affairs. This effort Mr. Pergler conducts in both hemi- spheres, and it is difficult to know at any given time whether he is studying and teaching jurisprudence in Wash- ington or making stump speeches in Prague. Encountering him on the streets of ‘Washington the other day, this writer inquired of him: “How are you getting along with classifying the Supreme Court's inter- national law decisions?” Mr. Pergler replied: “I've_been elected in Prague to the lower Czechoslovakian Parliament.” “How can it be?” inquired this writer further. “I thought you were an Amer- ican.” “I was,” replied Mr. Pergler, “but I automatically got Czechoslovakian citi- zenship when the Czechoslovakian gov- ernment made me Minister to Japan.” American at the Time. “But,” objected this writer, “you were an American citizen when you were Czechoslovakian commissioner to the United States.” “Yes,” replied our deepest student and practitioner of international com- plexities, “I was. That is why I was not made Minister to the United States but only commissioner. As Minister, I should have had to become a Czecho- slovak. As commissioner, I could re- main and did remain an American. My son is an American now. I am back here visiting him and my wife. They like it here, There are lots of things here that would be good for the politics of my country.” This writer thereupon resumed his efforts to understand the politics of Mr. Pergler's country, which at his birth was Czechoslovakia, and then was the United States, and now is again Czechoslovakia. These efforts on the part of this writer began some 13 years ago when Mr. Pergler, residing at Cresco, Iowa, but circulating through Chicago and New York and Washing- ton, was the principal American agent and manager of Thomas Garigue Masaryk, who journeyed to Washing- ton to change the mind, and who did change the mind, of President Wood- row Wilson regarding the propriety and desirability of Czechoslovakian inde- pendence from the Austro-Hungarian empire and who subsequently became, and now is, President of the Czecho- slovakian republic. Mr. Pergler, these lines the French feeling today is that FPrance seems to be alone among the great powers in its readiness to make any definite plans or sacrifices for insuring peace. The League cove- nant is thought,to be much weakened by, the persistent refusal of the United Sthies to join either the League or the ‘World Court, and by British intimat- tions that Great Britain will be unable o use its Navy to support the covenant as long as it remains in the dark re- garding the intentions of the United States in case of a crisis, ‘The Geneva protocol for mutual aid is 1o nearer adoption than ever. The Locarno treaties, though still in_effect, seem to be less popular in Great Britain and Italy, to say nothing of Germany. The Kellogg pact has resulted in no declaration by the United States as to what it would do in case the pact were broken and, in the French view, Russia flouted it with complete impunity in the Manchurian crisis. ‘The Mediterranean Locarno pact proposals are seemingly dead and the French have no illusions regarding the fundamental opposition of Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia to the European union proposal, French attempts to “tame Russia by kindness” have failed Great Britain and the United States rejected the three-power pact which they promised as compensation to Prance for not creating at the end of the war an independent Rhinelaind buffer state between France and Germany. (Copyright, 1930.) and Eastern through his services to Dr. Masaryk and to the Czechoslovakian cause, be- came the first representative of the new Czechoslovakian State in its diplomatic relations with our State Department and was then dispatched, again as a diplomatic representative, to Tokl There began his dispute with Mr. Benes, then a1 now Czechoslovakien minister of forelgn a an figure in all European international political maneuvers. Dispute Conducted Here. dispute Mr. Pergler, returning w%;shm%wn, conducted from this side of the Atlantic—for years—through pronouncements and manifestoes. Then, suddenly, last October he performed one of the most startling feats in all temporary political history. cmllle lgg; a boat to Europe. He took a train to Prague. He greeted a mob Rent, Sale or Exchange w, ten rooms, all improvements. Walter Reed; acre, quarter ground, large trees, shrubbery, Fockeries; will take back second trust; twenty-nine hundred cent partly furnished, $125. Owners. 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In two weeks from his arrival at the railroad station he was a mem- ber of the Czechoslovakian Chamber of Deputies. “And what is the name of your new party?” inquired this writer. “The National League,” replied Mr. Pergler. “And your principles?” this writer pursued. “The correction of Mr. Benes' er- rors,” replied Mr. Pergler, “and the cor- rection of the Czechoslovakian electoral system. Our new party will endeavor to give to Czechoslovakian voters some of the privileges and opportunities of American voters. In Czechoslovakia the voter cannot scratch the ticket. He cannot criss-cross on the ballot from one party to another, He decides only between rival lists of candidates named by the party menagements. He must vote for the whole of one list or for the whole of another list. He cannot choose between individuals. He chooses only between parties. Moreover, after he has elected a set, of party candidates to the Chamber of Deputies, the party management, by expelling any given successful candidate from party mem- bership, can in practice deprive him of his seat in the Chamber. That is a government not by the people but by parties. Our new party is determined to try to democratize the political basis of Crechoslovakian governmental life, and we have no doubt of our ultimate success.” Thus Czechoslovakia fncurs the con- sequences of the principles of Cresco, Towa. (Copyright, 1930.) ARMY OFFICERS CHANGED Maj. Gen. Wells Detailed to Classi- fication Board. Maj. Gen. Briant H. Wells has been detailed as a member of the Classifica- tion Board, in session in this city, in place of Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, relieved. Lieut. Col. D. R. Rodney, Cavalry, at Fort Meade, S. Dak. has been detafled to duty at the Michigan State College of Agriculture at Lansing: Capt. A. B. Pence, Infantry, from Fort ‘Warren, Wy to the A. D. Johnston High School at Chicago; Pirst Lieut. G. M. Davis, Infantry, from Fort Eustis, Va, to the Agricultural College of Texas, at Houston; Capt. Earl C. Horan from Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., to the Mississippi Agricultural College; Capt. R. C. W. Blessley, Air Corps, from March Field, Calif.’ to Selfridge Field, Mich.: Capt. R. H. Darrell, Cavalry, from New York City to Fort Jay, N. Y., and the following named Engineer of- ficers are ordered to the Panama Canal Zone: Capt. S. H. Griffin, at New Or- leans; Capt. W. H. Harris, at Norfolk, Va., and Capt. L. C. Gordon, at Mem- , Tenn. Established 33 Years LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE OFFERS SERVICES President Hoover Asked to Utilize Expert Staff in Drought Situation. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, August 9.—The Na- tional Live Btock Exchange, operating on 28 of the largest terminal live stock markets in the United States, late to- day offered to President Hoover and the American Bankers’ Assoclation the serv- ices of its expert staff and facilities in efforts to relieve the drought situation. In telegrams to Mr. Hoover and Jchn G. Lonsdale of St. Louis, president of the Bankers’ Association, Fred H. Olan- der, president of the exchange, said: “In the present national emergency, the National Live Stock Exchange on behalf of its members, hastens to place at your disposal its fully developed and highly efficient organization of special knowledge, experience, personnel and facilities to assist in working out or administering any constructive measures which you may inaugurate to provide speedy and adequate relief to those who may be entitled thereto in the drought- stricken districts. “We also assure you of the continua- tion without abatement of our long- established policy of providing aid and assistance to our stock men clientelle within the limits of our resources. “At specific request of feeders and growers hundreds of experts on the staffls of our members are now in the fleld surveying situations, praising conditions and counselling with stocl men and local bankers where drought conditions require their services.” RAFFIA TOYS POPULAR PARIS (#)—Raffia toys are the new- comers in exclusive nursery circles. 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By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, August 9-—Wilber M. | Brucker, attorney general of Michigan, has canceled speaking engagements he had made in his race for the Re- publican nomination for Governor, to devote his entire time to the investi- gation of Detroit’s crime situation and the killing of Jerry Buckley. ARREST PREVENTS SAILING. Ted Perzoni Alleged Trigger Man In | Buckley Murder Probe. NEW YORK, August 9 (#).—Wanted | in Detroit as a suspect in the murder of Jerry Buckley, radio_announcer, Ted Pezzoni, alleged gangland “trigger man,” was arrested by police here today just a few hours before he planned to sail for his native Italy. Pezzoni was captured as he walked into a Bronx bank, where, police allege, he was to withdraw $15,000 sent him from Detroi; to enable him to take a midnight liner for his homeland. John Hof'man, detective lieutenant of Detroit, brought about Pezzoni’s cap- ture. Through underworld informants in Detroit, he said, he learned that Pez- zoni had moved to New York and that his money had been withdrawn there and sent to a bank at Fordham road and Creston avenue, the Bronx. Hoffman left Detroit yesterday at | midnight and flew here by airplane. | When he reached the city early today | he hurried to police headquarters to | ask for aid and with two detectives went directly to the Bronx. ‘The bank had not opened when the detectives arrived. Hoffman knew Pez- | zoni by sight and the three men lin- | gered on the corner near the bank en- trance, scanning the faces that vassed. Pezzonl, walking carelessly cown the street half an hour later, anwitcingly stepped into the trap. He offered no resistance and detectives said he w: unarmed. He was taken to the High- bridge station and held as a fugitive | from justice from Detroit. Lieut. Hoff- | man said Pezzoni owned a night club in Detroit. 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