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THE PEACE BALLOT
One of the attractions of the Peace Ballot plan instituted by the British League of Nations Union, of which we gave some
time;
to
PACTS FOR PEACE OR WAR
By WALLACE CARROLL (Copyright, 1034, by United, Press Association),
The Very Idea!
THE BOOK OF ASUWERUS. Chapter 13.
Now the Elders of the People:" assembled in the Sanhedrim, as
vaat plan of interlocking All that is known of it to date, the manner was, to consider the
by exchange dif- A pacts, which will spell wax or is that it will apply to aggression welfare of the peoples of Kong.
the
is
2. And the Chief of the Elders
d others of the gold bloc peace for a large part of the world, or land as well as on soa and that | And thore were also the Tribunes
Is being pushed to perfection these it will adapt the main features of had their periods of discom-hot summer days in the capitals the North-Eastern agreement to of the Tribes. fort. The silver proclamation
the Mediterranean countries. of Europe. considered in some quarters to be
The French and Soviet Russia, The most complex of all the America's final onslaught on the
Is the General Act, arose and said Behold, there be gold bloc; and the invitation to a sponsors of the plan, claim that it agreements truco and a monetary adjustment, will bring a long period of security which is in an even less advanced one among us who has received on American terms, are expected in which the world will be able state than the Mediterranean ac- the dignity of the Order of the
of cord. Its purpose is to define the Bull's Eye, Let us praise the. to follow. It is open to doubt to devote itself to the arta
peace,
relationship of the two now pacts Gods and return thanks. And whether currency developments
Diplomata of other nations agree to the original Locarno pact and
the Tribunes of the Tribes assent- and
experiments in the United States are capable of, so simple an that the scheme, if successful, may to the League Covenant.
cil. nry ensure peace. They fear, how- explanation. On
This is necesanry, because in contrary little support can be found for the ever, that if it fails, it will divide carrying out the provision of the 3. And he continued and sald
Europa into two hostile camps new pacts,
France or the other The peace and prosperity of all belief that a currency war has which will bend their energice on signatories might come into con our people behold it minishóth been deliberately pursued. Oppos ing polleles have naturally cinshed;
therefore must 30 take counsel Equalisation Funds and such de
a North-Eastern pact, or "Eastern
For instance, if Germany attack-together. Let us consider wave vices have had to be introduced to
to Locarno pact." This
This would be
ed the Soviet Union, France would | and means. prevent disturbing fluctuaties signed by France, the Soviet be obliged under the North- Germany, Poland, Czech Eastern pact to help the Soviets. destroy the position of the oppost-
such conflicts as Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonía. tion, whereas
ave occurred, have been purely defensive.
NEW IDEAS
preparations for another war.
The plan comprises first of all
fict with the Covenant, or the Locarno pact of 1925.
But a war implica" an attempt tokia and the Baltic states-But the original Locarno treaty] other. And one said Let us I pray
The United States will, of course, continue to strive to bring about acceptance of her views upon silver.. But it must also be marked that American idens on currency needs have undergone a remarkable change in recent months. The conspicuous absence of any Ad- minstration spokesman of the com- modity dollar or managed currency at the Virginia Institute of Public Affairs, where other phases of the New Deal were actively represented and where money was under parti- cular discussion, gives an inding. A year ago the adoption by the President of the goal of a dollar of stable purchasing power regardless of gold content was a algnal for great Why is it How the greatest hopes are based on a reversal of that policy and the maintenance of a dollar of fixed
regardless content
of buying power?
4. And they spake ono unto the The North-Eastern agreement guaranteed Germany against a ye do this, and yet another excialm-
French attack, Thus Britain, would be supplemented by italy and Belgium, as signatoria ed Hearkon ye, must we not do "Moditerranean Locarno Pact," of the Locarno pact, would be that? And the biading France, Italy, Yugoslavia, obliged to determine whether they Tribes assented. Rumania, Greece and Turkey.
should come to the aid of Germany against the French.
GENERAL ACT.
Tribunes of the,
5. And again one, said Let us Article 2 of the Locarno pact prepare a committee, oven a small These two pacta would be permits France lo make war on committee to consider this thing. crowned by a "General Act." It Germany or Germany to make war Let them be bound this way and would make sure that nothing in on France under only three con- thut, let the pacts clashed with the Covenant ditions:
of the League of Nations or with 1. In case of legitimate defence the original Locarno treaty of against an unprovoked attack October 16, 1926.
wildernces.
them wander Into the
6. Yen let them wander in the .2. In caso the League Council, wilderness many days for perchance This original agreement the acting under Article 16. recom- they shall see light and receive model of all so-called mutual as- mends sanctions against the agres-manna from the heavens. And let sistance treaties of recent years-sor;
was signed by France, Germany,
after
3. In case the Council, under them come nigh unto us Great Britain, Italy and Belgium. Article 16, Paragraph 7, cannot Forts Days. And the Tribunes. of Its
s purpose was to prevent a new reach a ununimous decision. This the Tribes assented. France-German conflict by safe would leave each state free to France, Germany and Belgium. guarding the common frontiers of choose what action: It acema tight
Under
7. Then spoke he who keepeth The French believe that if the the records and he said Behold, in Soviets France and on one and Italy, "guaranteed" these will be free to aid them against the twentieth day of the month, f frontiers. That is if Germany at a possible German attack without tacked France or France attacked violating Article 2 of the Locarno law was decreed that all men should Germany, the British and Italians pact. If this in legally true, stand even on their heads. together with the Belgians would | Britain and the Italians would not
8. And Behold there was ап come to the old of the victim, be bound to interveno in such a
error. The proposed North-Eastern (conflict.
For the word not was for- simplicity of the idea. It does HOPES DISAPPOINTED something which obviously needs
pact contains even more elaborate M. Barthou tried to make Britain gotten entirely. Therefore how doing and its method is obvious-fold. The Brat is that the hopes First of all, it has two general visit to London. It appears, how-added to the records? And the
The reasons are perhaps three-arrangements for mutual aid.
this viewpoint on his recent say ye, should not that word be ly right. The British Govern- of an automatic reaction in the clauses applicable to all the North-ever, that the British fearful of Tribanes of the Tribes assented. mest, the British people and all form of higher prices from the Eastern powers which aign it. other Governments and all gold devaluation of the dollar have One of these is pledge never tinent, still believe that France'a
(Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut particulars a few days ago, is the
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peoples need to know where been largely disappointed, except to resort to force under any cir new obligations under the North- Great Britain stands in the perhaps, that part of the improve cumstances. The second is
Eastern pact might mean trouble Then arose the Master of the matter of the League of Nations ment in prices of cotton and wheat promise by all the North-Eastern for Britain and Italy as guarantors Watch who cried aloud Behold the and what policies she would con- can be attributed to that cause. In signatories to aid any one of the of the Franco-German frontier evil in the Land... The people are sistently support. These are the the second place, it has been signatory powers which is the under the Locarno agreement.
Nevertheless, M. Barthou did turbulent and proud people and considerations which have in-realised that a stable price level victim of an, unprovoked attack.
denles to the consumer the benefit duced the National Referendum of, a normal and gradual lowering clauses, there are special engage benevolent neutrality from the
In addition to these, general succeed in winning a promise of they rebel continually. Committee to plan a nation-wide of prices due to Improvement of monts by France and the Soviet British toward the Franco-Soviet
2. Therefore let us make an ballot on the League and arma-technique in industry, and It does Union.
proposals. It was even reported order that all must kneel and bow ments. The supreme enemy of not Insure that these benefits will
that the British agreed to use their their heads, yea bow them to the world peace is insecurity. The upset the price level regardless of
influence ta overcame Gorman, ground three times, to all the. danger is not that evil men or monetary efforts to maintain it.
France would "guarantee" that
Italian and Polish objections to Elders of the Sanhedrim. And the evilly-disposed nations, having
working
the scheme. of the plan, just plotted against their neighbours, INTERNATIONAL STANDARD Retain and Italy "guaranteed" the The French, although they insist Tribunes of the Tribes assented.
3. Now certain of the people may plunge the world into war.
The third reason, and one which working of the original Locarno that they tiesire the participation
of all countries concerned, It is that, befogged with doubts, in making a growing impression, is pact. That is, France would come
are rendered to the Elders all that not knowing on whom they can the discovery in practice of what to the aid of any signatory whose determined to go ahead with the they had of merchandise that was pacts even though Germany, Italy a danger, for such was the law. count, statesmen who would in-critics predicted, namely, that a territory was invaded.
nationalistic managed currency In exchange for this,
the Soviet and Poland refuse to adhere. finitely prefer the preservation would make foreign exchange ex- Union would join the "guarantors"
And they paid the Elders many shekels to guard their goods. of peace, stumble blindly and un-
tremely difficult. Gradually it is of the original Locarno pact of
4. And when they came to, the suspiciously into conflict. War being recognised-and it was em 1925. Thus, in case of trouble French sources claim that, out- Eldera to redeem that which they ensnares them because they do phasized by about three-fourths of between France and Germany, the side of the benefits accruing to had surrendered to them. Behold not know how to avoid it. "Give the economists at the round table Soviets would Join Britain, Italy France and her allies, the pacts it was not. But the Elders snill me a fixed point on which to rest on money in the Institute of Pub-and Belgium in alding the victim.
will strengthen the League and Be ye of good countenance. my lever and I will move the lic Affairs-that
from recovery
Louts Barthou, aged but agile probably prove a helpful stimulus
of minister whole world." That saying is world depression requires a res foreign
France, to the disarmament conference. 5. For we shall pay unto you the as truc in politics as it is in toration of world trade, and that brought the negotiations on the They point out that the pacts value theroof. But to themselves mechanics. Knowledge is essen this in turn requires generally North-Eastern pack to an advanced are predicated upon the entry they laughed with loud laughter. tial to the safety of humanity accepted and fixed international stage on his recent trips to Eastern of Soviet Russia Into the League, saying one to the other, We shell taxgatherera among the and the salvage of civilisation, monetary standard whether on Europe, the Balkans and London. This will almost certainly entrain send
gold, or on gold and silver, Does In contrast, the Mediterranean the return of Germany and thus people. because only knowledge can pro- this mean, then, that the once ac- Locarno has barely bogun to take make the League ne strong na it vide the foundation on which a claimed goal of a dollar of stable form.
(Continued on Pago 4). peaceful world order can be purchasing and debt-paying is no built. A declaration by several longer desirable? Hardly. Rather million British electors that they that other considerations are more
desirable support the League and asking
or pressing and that the British Government to draw more needs to be learned about money before it will be known the logical consequences from how to achieve this and other ob their support will give the "fixedjectives.
point" whose lack now threatens
·
all nations with disaster. The STABILITY FIRST weakness of League action in
the past has been the uncertainty any kind of stability, monetary or It is clear that the fostering of of how far Governments and economic, depends in part on co- peoples mean what they say: In operation between central banko of her Manchurian adventure Japan various countries, on the judg- was encouraged to proceed to ex-ment of business men, on wago tremes, whose ill-consequences and social polleles and the budgets are still far from exhausted, of governments. It depends still because she was not convinced more on the human psychological
factors involved in those two
great that the Great Powers were disturbers, war and Inflation, with ranged resolutely behind the their resultants, poverty and defie- League's disapproval. Similarly tlon. The more men achieve in the prime obstacle to a disarma stability of thought a basis of ment Convention is the doubt progress and right, the more of It which every nation entertains of they will see reflected in their all its neighbours. "If we go so money and their economic activity. far, will the others travel an It is more reasonable to attribute equal distance? If a general any desire the President may have pledge of accurity is given to us, conference to his realisation of the for organising an international will the others make it good by need for universal stability as op definite action in case of need?' posed to. Internal stability, than to These are the questions whose a willingness to cry "Enough!" in missing answers thwart the monetary feud which odata more Longue. When, in the coming
on
winter, every household in Grandmagination than Is, fact Britain receives its ballot paper, Great Britain would produce a all men and women over eighteen world-wide effect, and lead to have the opportunity to declara | world-wido imitation. For the their approval of the League and first time in many years all the ቤ strong Lengue policy, the world will know the full measuro situation will be transformed. of support ranged behind. a An Immense popular vote in policy of peace.
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6. And that which they shall collect, even that will wo pay, to them for their goods, so that wo
loss. bear not the
And the Tribunes of the Tribes assented.
7. Now the Warden of the Waters put forth his hands and blessed the Elders, saying For- adventure yo will hearken unto me. Let us I pray yo ease the burden on those that go down to the sca in ships, yea even unto Tarshish.
8. But the Healor of the Sick and he who was over the lovy in the quarries and in the roade die- puted the thing hotly saying What manner of talk is this? And the Tribunes of the Tribes assented. For the Tribunes of tho Tribes always assent.
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