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Box 141, Lebanon, Tenn. Box 4, Spring Hill, Tenn. Box 124, Sweetwater, Tenn. Box B, Blackstone, Va. .Box 410, Front Royal, Va. Box D, Staunton, Va. Box L, Waynesboro, Va. Box 25, Lewisburg, W. Va. Box 12G, Delafield, Wisc. Lake Geneva, Wisc. PUBLIC OPINION (New York) combined with THE LITERARY DIGEST Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company (Adam W. Wagnalls, Pres.; Wilfred J. Funk, Vice-Pres.; Robert J. Cuddihy, Treas.; William Neisel, Sec'y) 354-360 Fourth Ave., New York "P EACE WILL COME," says the Prime Minister of Great Britain, when the world finds a solution for three problems: payment of reparations, settlement of interallied debts, security of a pacified Europe. In the days preceding and immediately following the Prime Minister's speech of July 12th, the headlines over the foreign dispatches in our press indicated that hope of the Allies agreeing on any solution was faint indeed. We Americans take our news so largely from the headlines that the European situation seemed gloomy as the facts were brought home to us by-"See No End in the Ruhr Deadlock," "British Break with France Is Seen in Two Days," "France's Policy Speeds World Chaos, Baldwin Warns; Paris Unmoved," "London Papers Bitter," "Possibility of More War Awes House of Commons." The friendly tone of the Baldwin speech seemed to mollify French resentment over the criticism of the Poincaré policy, but when London read Poincaré's address at Senlis on the 15th, the general feeling was that the French Premier had "slammed the door in Britain's face," as we read in one dispatch. So while our editors await the next movethe action to be taken by the Allies on the British reply to the latest German reparations offer they begin to wonder whether anything really can be accomplished without our help. As things now stand, remarks the New York Journal of Commerce, “there is grave fear that Germany will not only never pay reparations to anything like the amount that she could, but that this issue will be the cause of increasing dissension among the various countries of Europe." Or, as the New York World cheerlessly concludes, "no progress can be seen toward the overthrow of mankind's fundamental obstacle, the reparations issue." France, Germany, England, Belgium and Italy are compared by the Brooklyn Eagle to "five men engaged in a poker game. All are gambling desperately. The stakes are high. Feeling is intense." Incidentally, we are reminded, "the chips in this game are human lives, and a war or peace hangs on the outcome." Continues The Eagle: "The tragedy of it all is that there is no one to call the game. The peoples whose fates are in the hands of the diplomatic gamblers are impotent. The United States, the most powerful nation, and the one, apart from the players, most directly concerned in the outcome, declines to interfere." "Our inaction helped get Europe into the present mess," declares the St. Louis Star, and our action, continues the St. Louis daily, "is necessary to undo the mischief." We are told that "The influence of the United States should be put squarely behind the efforts of Premier Baldwin to force France to an accounting of her stewardship over Germany and European peace. It should be directed, further, to the ultimate satisfaction of the just claims of France and Belgium against Germany, insofar as Germany can satisfy them. But the one paramount aim should be to create conditions which will allow all of Europe to recover her poise, forget the danger of war, and go to work." "Mr. Baldwin brought the United States into the proposed peace consortium," argues The Star, when he listed the three problems: reparations, interallied debt settlement, and "security of a pacified Europe." It is set down as evident that "with the first of these, we have nothing to do except give good counsel, but the second can not be decided without American participation, and the third invites our earnest support and cooperation." It may be, observes the Chicago Evening Post, that "the door is opening again to us for a great service." Prime Minister Baldwin, it will be remembered, called for a joint effort to determine Germany's capacity to pay. This, the London papers remark, points toward an interallied commission to act possibly as a Committee to the Reparations Commission. The London Daily Telegraph remarks that "all the Allies would welcome the presence on the Committee, and preferably in the chair, of an eminent American jurist, such as William Howard Taft, or Elihu Root, or an eminent banker or economist from Wall Street." The London Daily Mail understands that "American opinion points to Thomas W. Lamont, of the Morgan firm, as the possible American representative on an international commission to estimate Germany's paying capacity." As described in Washington, we read in a dispatch to The Wall Street Journal, "the so-called British plan of a conference is very much like the suggestion Secretary Hughes made at the end of last winter-that an international commission of business authorities recommend a reparations figure within Germany's capacity to pay." And this writer thinks that the United States Government "probably would accept an invitation from Great Britain to an Allied and neutral conference on reparations and the Ruhr question, if a hopeful chance of settlement were seen in such a course," altho in other Washington dispatches it is stated that there is no likelihood of any change in the American policy of avoidance of official participation in interallied discussions. It seems to the St. Paul Pioneer-Press that there is every reason to believe that if a commission of experts is established, "the United States will have representation upon it." And it is interesting to find in the columns of Mr. Munscy's anti-League and anti-World Court New York Herald the statement that "there is every reason why England and America should propose an international commission and why France should accept." After citing the general reasons for preferring arbitration to brute force, and showing why such a settlement would be in the interest of France and Britain, The Herald continues: "America is concerned because decrease in the buying power of Europe is felt by our farms and factories. Wheat fell below a dollar partly because of the lessened export demand. "And of course this country has an interest in the healing of the wounds of war because of its stake in the war. Seventy-five thousand dead, a quarter of a million wounded, an initial outlay of thirty-five billion dollars, a pension cost that will be billions more-America spent a great deal in men and money to bring a peace that has not yet arrived. "The dispute over reparations is still in a stage where it can be as great as Germany took from France in 1870? Is it true that Germany, offering to pay $300,000,000 a year for thirty-five years, can offer no more? "These are questions not for soldiers or politicians, but for bankers, business men, economists. The two great Englishspeaking peoples appear to be agreed that these questions must be answered and the answers applied to a situation which threatens economic depression, international hatred, and more war." "Nothing doing!" comes the cry, however, from the Cincinnati Post, speaking for those papers which believe "this is no time for Uncle Sam to play umpire." It seems to the Ohio daily that we should have to assume a position of deciding issues between France and England, and there would be "one more sore spot added to an already sore world." That is "when we do take part in world affairs again, as we must if war is ever to be curbed, even partly, let us do it when the broad principle of world peace shall stand out like a house afire and not be dimmed by any charge that we are serving the particular interests of any particular Power." A similar argument appears in the Manchester Union, while the Washington Post at the national capital can not see why America is called on to help the nations of Europe "out of the mess they are in." "The call to participate in European wrangles is not impressive," we read; "the duty of rescuing Europe from Europe is with the nations of that continent-not with the United States." Further "There is nothing of the American ideal, as it has descended from the past, in the 'idealism' that is construed as urging such participation. International idealism that would subordinate American interests to those of European nations has shown by proposals as to Turkish and other mandates that its idea of American participation is a joinder with assumption of burdens that is unprofitable and with a consequent lightening of their loads. The American eagle is not a bird of burden nor is it a winged scapegoat. The 'idealists' who argue that it is the duty of the United States to offer itself as Europe's burden-carrier, while European nations are engaged in playing the game of grab, should revise their views to conform more nearly with the duty of America to itself and to its own." The real deadlock, as many of our editors see it, lies in the essential and almost necessary difference between the French and the English view-points. The acquiescence of the opposition leaders in Parliament and the approving utterances of the daily press would seem to bear out the contention of editors and correspondents that in his speech of the 12th Prime Minister Baldwin accurately exprest British opinion. The chief points of the speech appeared in our last week's issue. Mr. Baldwin emphasized the dangers of the existing situation, the failure of the Ruhr occupation to secure reparations, his Government's desire to continue united action, so far as possible; he said that the British reply to the German note would be submitted to the Allies for consideration, and declared his belief that there is "general agreement to these propositions": "That the period of conflict should as soon as possible be terminated; 'That the indefinite occupation by one country of the territory of another in time of peace is a phenomenon, rare and regrettable in itself, to which an honorable end should as soon as possible be found; "That the debtor should not merely be called upon to pay his debt, but should be placed in a position where he can do so; "That his capacity, where it is in doubt, should be tested and determined, and that united efforts should be made to accomplish these ends." The British position is also strongly stated in a dispatch from London by A. C. Gardiner to the New York World and other American papers: "The French Premier is conscious that he holds two strong cards. He has established France's military dominance on the Continent of Europe beyond its wildest dreams, and while it is destroying Germany, it also is bleeding English trade white. "Two million people are expected to be without employment in England this winter. France has no unemployed. M. Poincaré exploits this unemployment menace to British existence as an argument to compel his country to endorse war to the death with Germany. Mr. Baldwin knows that the situation can not be saved that way. He is determined to get Europe out |