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THURSDAY, ́ ́ SEPTEMBER 6, 1934.
EUROPE'S IRON
NOTES OF THE DAY RING OF The Very Idea!
PLEA FOR DEMOCRACY
However great the wunknesses of democracy may seem in a time of crisis, it is hard to escape the im- pression that most of the troubles
of Europe to-day arise in large part because of the denial of lomoerney Austria, even to-day swept by the repercussions of an salution ominously similar to
ALLIANCES
By SISLEY HUDDLESTON
as Europe began to settle
THE PLANE TRUTH (By Giorge)
OME time ago a good deal of manner, but nothing could adeTHE gred thing about play was made with the ring quately substitute for Itussin. To these at races is out Iron and concrete fortifications soon round France, but much more in-down, and doctrinal prejudice wore variety of reords that are portant is the ring of iron and thin, France reverted to its former open to
pilot. The machine phes off, say
conjunction with Russia, is erect-
ngo, is simply an example. For concrete alliances that Franco, in co really matter very from Timbuòo aiming for
Is
and nover
that of Franz Ferdinand 20 yeara the underlying cause of such dieoring round the Europe of the peace little, tera the furt that ordinary trenties, the Europs of the status diplomacy. It may be that doe-a six daysrecord speed
for long, T democratic processen havo been
trines create ambit which are suspended. Rackel and, forn by It is, of course, all done in the at variance, but in themselves attack on Singhai, the cross-currents of passion, re- sentment, and despair that have been incredibly abused in recent national
re-name of peacon word that has they have no importance in inter- The eventfiday arrives but been In
relations, Re-blican the pilot doesit. Perhaps he the making over since the years. The alliances are not, wo France.and Taarist Russia worked war, dictator-ruled
ro fold, the old kind of alliances. together. Why not a France still is breaking anjer record. peoples have no
has passed ovithe Colony and way of expressing themselves but All alliances are, by definition, with guns, Germany furnished an defensive. No country, in these democracy and a Russin which y
wedded to
nineteenth-century abject Icanon on June 30. Diacon- days, admits that its diplomatic adopted the twentieth-century news comes ththe pilot in way But no! Onie following day tent with the way the Nazi rolleles combinations can possibly be di-tion of the subordination of back at Rangepicking cheroots were working out came to a head reeted against any other country, individual? and demanded expression. No The other country can come into
with his plane fing the ground. As for Communist Russia, It Expectation peaceful means of expression was the combination if It chooses. But
at first suspicious of aliviously an rupt on the slow
it rises possible.
high. what could it do in auch company bourgeois institutions and nations,
ONLY RECOURSE
Men could not argue their cause, they could not agitato by means of newspapers and magazines, they
if the facts of the case make of it But in a later period it realized record is ng tried.
potential adversary of the that it had very much the same mac to know if the
fall into the sea on
group? Its inclusion would be problems as the Tsarist Risain, the At lap where shall presume 8pecially as the rivalry-between [ that how swimng time is being
sheer hypocrisy. Inside, there would be an inner circle.
That Is
could not look forward to a chance which the cisely the difficulty it appreciate the need of allies In recorde is breing necksyen a
League of Nations has Europe. It is, huge as is its area experienced. It nominaily takes and population, not so strong as it plane and the revolver became their side the Lengua, the same strugglo afford to have trouble in the Eusti
in all-but in reality there is, in-would wish to be. It cannot only
to use ballots. The machine gun
recourse and ao, inevitably, government had to use the same in replying to them. Implements In Austria the same kind of happena. Instead of
ten campaign, with speeches, pamphlets, advertisements, and so on, there must be a "putsch," with bombs,
I
reat. discontent. One does not need to look at such tragte happenings very long to get a new realization of the inestimable value of democracy.
•
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for control, the same divlalons, and in the West. Therefore, it the same antagonisms, as would must protect itself in Europe by a exist outside the League. The chain of alliances. universality of the Kellogg pact Besides, friendship with France has likewise falled to prevent the meant much more than just friend- proparation for war, and many ship with. France. France had people are beginning to think that already built up a ring of alliances
number of its adherents.
It's
ely all
wing
the p
DUN
biet Lowell.
THE
FLES LETTRES.
Advice PS HAVE IT. Dear EaLovelorn Column
another pair
Nothing is to be deprecated more linked up with each other. If away with think, I am getting
Do you
Fran F
\ned)
8-10
Rumare, assassination, and all the the efficacy of an International by which Russia might benefit. ing often wt out in the m
There is no other outlet for contract is in inverse ratio to the Franco is directly allied to Boling. Then run in my stock.
Kium,
Poland, Czechoslovakia, it, I say, "pimy. bosa notices Roumania and Yugoslavia, and the of stockings eastern and southern countries are
than the tendency to find scape: France cared to say the word, goats among the natious, and Russia might make is peace with WORTH A LITTLE THOUGHT do not propose to fall into the these nations, France did say the folly of condemning Russia. But word, and together France and Democracy has its weaknesses, it is absurd not to look objective-Russia have constructed
n boule- but it does provide a safety valve ly at what is happening, and to vard of Europe which extends from it possible for people to get rid of diplomatie moves, now being play- France, Russia, the Little Entente, for public discontent. It does make try to understand whether these the Baltic to the Dardanelles. government, a party, or a policy ed swiftly and boldly on the and the Balkanic Entente, which which they do not like, in peaceful European chessboard, are really includes Turkey, already an ally of
way. It lets every orderly
desirable. I cannot be suspected Itussin, can dominate Europe mau have his say about the state of any animas against the Soviet of affairs about him; it makes the regime, since I was one of the appeal to force unnecessary. We very few writers who in 1919 A good deal of diplomatic wort need to keep this mind. There are people even in the Cordon Sanitaire, and who Geneva offered a wonderful plat
constantly invehemently opposed the plan of was done outside Geneva, this Colony of benevolent autocracy, (despite my dislike of the form from which the solidarity of who profess an admiration for Bolshevik doctrines) believed that the new combination of powers Fascist, or whatnot on the ground force. dictatorship--whether proletarian, ideas cannot be destroyed by could be announced. It could be announced in the name of security. unwieldy. The facts are worth" | BuThe leaves, meanite free to as a diplomatic measura which closer study.
and
DEPRESSION
On
WRA
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HOLIER THAN THOU! Gristede Bros. New York City Gentlemen:
THE ARMS RACKET The munitions racket, which has left a trail of treason, greed and blood in its train, is at the moment undergoing a searching scrutiny in the United States. Already startling revelations have been made by witnesses before the Senate Committee, und before the inquiry is con- cluded we may expect to see the searchlight turned with dramatic armament firms of the principal
running to the opposite extreme, afmumez..... Wiyan_ron), die- nations of the world. It is, of
and of pretending that all that is the arguments in favoar
of course, no new thing to learn
done by Russia in the international security could be brought for- that there is much interlocking
sphere is commendable. Russia inward, and it collective action of the Disarmament
Conference? a a general character were refused, between the big armament firms, Long after recovery from the Russia in the League? By all no one could blame the arrange Investigations made by the depression has been completed, the means. But let us count the cost, monta which nations belleving League of Nations have shown world will probably be arguing and not be led away by loud-themselves menaced might make
earnestly about what caused the that these big munitions corpora- recovery. Was it due to this, that,ounding words signifying no-among themselves. These arrange
thing.
ments were openly displayed. At tions have in the past actively or the other specific measure France has always had a pen-a given moment the screen was Swiss cheese has all the holes in Just want to know why fomented war scares, tried to adopted? Or did it come of itself? chant for Russia. The attraction thrown down, and Europe bribe Governments officinis, and The argument has begun already. Is the attraction of mass. Russia exhibited as organized on the it when Limburger needs it so disseminated false reports as to the side you have the theory is the biggest country in Europe. Franco-Russo-Little Entente. Bal-badly? other nations' military and naval that the cyclleat swing, from proa- If it is on the French side, French kanie Entente pattern, with neu
A Curious Customer perity-to-depression-and-back-
---(signed)- programmes in order to stimu-again, has been steadily increasing creased. Before 1914, the Franco- which had aims incompatible with back military strength is greatly In-trals, and a number of countries late armament buying. But the in velocity for half a century, and Russian alliance was one of the those of this Immenso diplomatic U.S. Senate Committee presided that this time it carried world most formidable factors in Europe. constellation, but without effective
MY INTENTIONS ARE Jover by Senator Nye is charged economy downs
80 far that the whole
HONOURABLE. The collapse of Russia, the dis-jor sufficient power. organisation would have integrating influence of Russia wetual details into the full glare collapsed if remedies had not been after the pence of Brost-Litovsk. situat see
We have to reckon with this Messrs, Adler, Kolly, Kern and
Mann of publicity, in the hope that the belief that the other, there is the made a renewal of the Franco- rofuse to see the inwardness of The Four Yacht Club Boys revelations made will result in differed little from its predecessors,
the depression has Russian alliance impossible for the diplomatie deal based on the Gentlemen:
As former commodore of years. Yet France regretted the idea of mutual assistance. Does far-reaching international con- and that on the road to recovery disappearance from its diplomatie it make for peace? Immediately, the Baton Rouge Yacht Club, 1 trol of the arms traffic. There the world would have proceeded calculations of the immense north-perhaps, for it is difficult to see have four Commodore's outfits: is to be the closest investigation just as fast-if not, in fact, a little
ern nation. Poland was a doubt who can oppose It, But it certain which I would be willing to sell to into the financial and working fate governments had kept ful substitute. The Little Entente ly reintroduces Into European you. If you cannot afford to pay
their hands off entirely. arrangements between American
was excellent in a supplementary (Continued on Page 7) for them all at one time, you can corporations and the European
pay on the instalment plan: I also Jarms industry. The facts that
have two yachting caps, a set of ears and some white socks which will be revealed are calculated to
I would let go. Please signify reflect very little credit on the
your intention.. big armament organisations. It has been disclosed in recent pression "spring from the system years that so-called patriotic societies have received large sums of money from the muni- tions interests, and that secrets of military and naval science have been made available to private corporations, whilst it in common knowledge that again and again soldiers have been shot down during wartime with guns and munitions the products of their own countries' ment firms. But it is not only in wartime that these dealers in weapons of destruction active; In pence, also, they are known to engage in intrigue of
arma-
arc
On
ITS CAUSE ?
This intter viewpoint is express- ed by Professor Neil Carothers, who says that the causes of a de
of capitalistic production, in which goods are made for in advance of the market
by means of borrowed credit and invested funds. Depres aion comes when this credit-secu- rities-investment system of tion
Produc- becomes overstimulated." This, adda Prof. Carothers, is a system which inevitably rights it- self. It never quite capsizes. But the only care is that one remedy for all human Il-time.
AND THE CURE
The chief trouble with this theory seems to be its belief that human affairs are carried on in a vacuum, When an economist talks
all kinds, and to have divided of producers, consumers, investors, the world into non-competitive and an on, he is not speaking of spheres with the object of hold-units in an academic chess game; he is speaking of human beinga
ing up prices. Peace-time pro-who have a naive way of getting fits are known to run into angry when they lone their money enormous figures, a fact which is and their jobs. A depression like hardly surprising when it is the present might right itself, it borne in mind that since the given plenty of time; but the peo Great War the world has spent apt to tear the house down while ple who are living through it are something like £2,500,000,000 on arms and munitions. The Ameri- time to
they are waiting. Depending on can investigation is to be wel-ing on time to relieve an attack of effect a cure is like depend- comed. If it resulta in an end acuto appendicitis; it may work being put to this traffic in arms and, on the other hand, the patient for private profit, it will have may die. In a highly organised been more than justifled, and,nature take its course in an acute country, it is impossible to let what is more, will remove. ano depression. The strain on the so- of the causes of war.
cial fabric in too great."
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