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SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1919. THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. - Will There Be a Greater Armagiddon? Need Shown for a Strong League of Western Nations as the Sole Hope for Peace With Freedom. By JOHN BATES CLARK . Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University, New York, Head of the , Division, of Economies and History, Carnegie Endwment for Interna tional Peace. Whoever hai recently talked witk Eu ropean ha often been conscious of a certain latent depression on their part .. which b not due to disorganized indus- try, publis debts, ravage of war dread of revolution. Over the entire future there teems to hang the shadow of another world war that is possible and even probable and the opinion pre vails that, if it should come, it would bi more savage and destructive than the' recent one. As the imagination paints .Ik - : -. . ( . ... i . i wo cvniuig struggle, n win oe roouera 4n Ita filliina ininm.nt. rtii, nwliii. torie in its practices. It will improve on the guns, shells, gases, air craft, tanks and submarines and will ase them in the spirit of th Neanderthal man, throwing justice and humanity to the winds wherever this will increase the ehanee of success. It will be bloodier than the war that has "bled the nations white" and will add women and chil dren unreservedly to its victims. Cities that it has touched will look like the vil- laa-pa that atirwt in thm tenet nf ill rTnn - - ..... - - - --- - and if this sounds like the phantom of an alarmist imagination, one nas omjr to recall what war has actually done and make allowances for its increased ... power and will to do devils' work. The savagery that baa gone to such lengths : already will not balk at 'going farther, if success requires it, and the means of going much farther will be at hand. To know that such a war were soon coming ni ia?i1r rrrrr -ma-nkiiril -tnr-dwmtthv-amd finding it probable within a decade or ' two fully accounts for much half-con scions depression. Hnar Will Ir.Knm.nlt I .el. Is such a fate really in store for the Touth and childhood of today f Does any country desire such a war and in tend to begin itt Not if it would have to be fought on even terms. That would mean practical annihilation for the con tendinr armies and for civil Domila . tions within the fighting tone. In the immediate future, in any ease, general lighting will have to be suspended, but how long will this immunity lastf After the Napoleonic wars there were a hun dred years of comparative pca:e, but he would be wildly sanguine who ahould Inn, Va. in, aiuh neriod now. and it is safe to saj; thst score of years or less may precipitate a urcater Armageo don. It may come at about the time that the toddling little ehild of today is of full military age or it may eome earlier and tako the child's father and There are substantial grounds for an ' opinion as to tne events 01 we next few years and a few of them are self evident: (1) A warlike nation under the sting of defeat ;will be eager to re ita territnrv and its Dower: (2) If it has undertaken to pay a crushing 1J : ... , ; 1 1 n. an r ,rt thrnw nff IHUDWHllf w that burden and place it on its enemies. Dollars; counted 1- billions, it Ici&etter to receive tlian to give; joi xi can hope Jti accomplish this if it can build p a 'fighting league of nations; (4) When a strong combination of this kind lias been formed success in a war will depend en quick action. The expert gunman has his victim at his mercy be cause he can shoot him before the other can finish fumbling with his gun, and so bss state that, in its entirety, is like the gunman while its enemies are like the tenderfeet. it uermany in ner present mood is ever able to do that to aha will do it unless ' W whole attitude and character change. ' ' Germany to Rise? iuhsri Bavarian recently wrote that "the terms imposed on Ger many make another war certain in ui near future, and it will be far more ...;hi- ihan iha repent one." Hintlen- burg calls Germany "a giant who has been thrown down, out not owbdmu,- - and says that he "has only to rise and take his revenge." Before the Peace Treaty has been ratified there have ' been signs that the giant is beginning to make some preparation for the r.s lng and it is not alarmism but the plainest of eommon sense which do Clares that the security of Western Europe depends on the possessio of power enough to prevent it. That means a defensive league too strong . and too firmly united to be attacked- Germany will not enter on a struggle - that would obviously mean annihilation for both of the contending forces She will try to make as aure of a quick vie- . tory as she thought she was when she attacked Prance and Russia tinder the Impression that Great Britain would be .. nuitral and Italy probably on her side. If neither army has the atari of the etherIf the twe rush into the field in " Napoleonic fashion-both of them will ' march, to destruction about as certainly as though they were plunging from op posite bank, into Niagara J"' . above the Horse shoe Fall. In the minds of many persons there ta basy picture of such n fate in store for their children if not for , few who see it -t nU roeato ito coming at any distant time, sinee long waiting would weaken the will to light nnd strengthen the will to work, trade and thrivJ by the arts of peace. I is, therefore, within the score of years that Ire directly before s that the greatest L-rU Control R-.T . After Russia had withdrawn from the war nnd America had eome into it, n Japanese statesman who was in this country- said to an American friend. "Yon will beat certainly in the end. for yon have the greater resources, but it ' will not be within twe years, or any small number, for Germany will control Eussia from this time on." The predie- ' tion was not verified to dates, lor the war was finished In the twe years ' from the time when it was uttered and aermany failed then to control Russia. What the Japanese counted on that Russia would soon figure heavily on the German side while America would be slow in counting on the allied aide cms the reverse of whst happened. Uer many had not time to grasp and nse the forces of Russia before American power decided the contest against her. But what is the situation now! There is now time for Germany to ds what she then left nndone. She ean gather in vast resources, .both -material and human, from the etse nude out of Bus-i aiaa and Balksn lands. Eeonomie eon- j trol, political influenced command of t:. ami. flnallv.' command of auxili ary troops ell this there is time to I ' wssp in ths years that are before her.j A map of Europe which shows the great zone over which, by peaceful penetra tion, federation and quaai-anneiation, the power of Germany may extend shows at a glance how insignificant is the do main that Germany haa lost in com parison with what she is in a way to gain. It is on the success of this move ment the march eastward and south ward of German power under forms of peace thst the whole future of the world depends. Csn the western na tions of Europe build up n power that is equal to the one just described f Not if this Germanising operation is allowed to make much headway; and yet it must msnage to do it if the world is long secure against German conquest. What Is Needed. - In highly interesting work entitled "How the Wsr Came." Lord Lorburne has shown that, if the government of England, in July of 1914, had bees able to aay decidedly. "We will eome to the help of France if you attack her," the attack would not have been made and the war would hsve beea avoided; and yet England was already committed to France in a way that bound her in honor to just auch a course. It was because she was estopped from frankly saying ao that the war occurred. What is needed is a peace loving power strong enough to beat an aggressive one, if attacked by it, and not only able to declare ita purpose to do so- at the proper; time; : but so fully, and openly committed to this policy that any nation intending to play the bully will know what it has to face. A large group of great .nations, ready to fight for the freedom of any mem ber would, in all probability, never have to fight at all, while a weak or ir resolute group- would hsve S fighting foreed upon it to ita own destruction. Where the will to conquer exists, the uower to do it is all that is needed to ensure a wsr of conquest and there ia small hope for peace with freedom in Europe, and very little for it any where, in a world in which Germany, with her present purpose, gets a pre ponderating power. It is as indispens able that the order-loving states of the world should be dominant as it is thst the, : order-loving citizens of a single state or city should be so. Germany's Iadaeement to War. Do we realize what a vast ..m-iit to, renew the war Germany finds her self t Colossal debt, trade restricted, colonial territory lost, ambitious rudely thwarted, an intolerable subjection im posedwhat if all this eould be undone by a quick and successful attack on separate and unwary enemies? What if Germany eould regain' her territories with a vast new area, strip rivsls of colonies and put the war debt on themf What if "neutschland" could become "ubei alles" instead of unter a'leif The motive for a war that would do all this for her is overwhelming, but how alwut the power! It is in sight but not in possession, and it is on the question whether it will be in possession that the-, fate of the world depends. The subject state will become master if it can and it will put- no limit on the effort and the sacrifice thst the achieve ment will cost. Let us put ourselves in to the German position and mentally plan a natural course of action. "As Germana we must bring Austria into the Empire with her territories restored. Let us bring Russia, the Balkans and the (new border states into our sphere of influence and form a league that will control both Central and Eastern Eu rope. How much then shall we have to fear from the nations of the Westt How much shall we gain by attacking themf Can they enforce the guaran ties that the Peace Treaty has put up on us and stop our military prepara tions f Can they prevent us from marshalling the fighting forces that lie to the east of us, and hold ua in our place as merely a single great state Not unless they ean make a league stronger than the one that we are already beginning to create. If they ean do this, it is possible that the peace may be lasting and, in the long run, when our wrath has subsided, we ourselvee may even wish to uphold it. Successful industry may give us very much and may end by making ns peace ful citizens of the world. It will go hard however, with any. weak western alliance if we ean beat it before we have learned to content ourselves with the peaceful conquests. In a weak league of nations or none whatever lies our present hope of quicker and cheap er gains. lt us act on the principle that Tacitus attributes to the Germana of his day, our ancestors, that It ia a disgrace to gain by labor what can more easily be gained by the sword." League ef Nations Necessary. It this view ef the German attitude and purpose is true or half true, it means the necessity for very strong league ef western nations as the sole hope for peace with freedom. Does it ' mean, However, that crude tore will be the only, guaranty or the chief onef An essential guaranty it certainly is today and it will continue to be so for some years to come but, if there is any thing in the human race that gives it the title to own and enjoy this planet at all, force will be very far . from furnishing the sole basis ef peace. There is something better In etore for the world than a neck and neck rivalry of two leagues leading to a final strug gle between them. The immeasurable blessings from International anion and friendship are the largest factor ia the situation, A community ef nations haa value, moral and material, for every ! state that ia a member of it. ' As a single state organization has immeas urable value for individual citizens, enabling them to enjoy "life, tiberty and the pursuit of happiness,'' so a world organization, imperfect as it may be, may confer a like blessing oa ita constituent states. The very ' rudimen tary world community which existed through the last century did much in this direction for ita several members, and a league more definitely organized ean do more. It is not to be supposed that three great countries of Western Europe will iu economic ways isolate themselves from the lrsser states and from their late enemies. Paramount above nil military prob lems will be the economic ones, wuich every such state will have 'to face. In what eonneetioa will its economic lite be best developed f How will the crush ing burdens which the wsr has left be hind it be most readily borne! How, in the ease of each country, will commer cial and financial access to the world st lare be most readily secured f The Western countries of Europe - hsve a vast amount to offer to their smaller neighbors as well as to the states of the esst. Germsny has an advantage over rivals ia trade within Russian and Balkan territories and her commerce with them msy be expected to grow accordingly, but that is ss far as pos sible from mesning that the new states will willingly surrender their independ ence and the advantages which member ship in the economic community of the world will give th.m. They will wish that any league that they join shall be one that is a democracy of nations rather than a group of vamal-like states nnder an ambitious over-lord thst will use them to extend its own conquests. J lie sense oi ireeaom me woria over will mean kinship with the powers that stand for freedom. Deep in the psychol ogy of nations are forces, moral and material, that will make for permanent penee, if only the states that hare won, the war can make ' themselves the nueleus of a large permanent union. In the long run this applies to Ger many, itself, iiem berth ip. i 9. the world empire will be worth much to her and it would be strange pessimism to sup pose thst her people are so unlike others that, ia the long run, they will not yield to that in flue nee. The country that to 4y stands for a menace to the rest of ths world will be a valuable member of aa International league from the time when, in feeling, ia purpose and in economic interest, she becomes flitted for sueh citizenship. Evf'ution tends powerfully to bring her to that condi tion is which she baa too much to re reive from the international brother hood and too much to give to it to make the life of n moral outlaw and bully attractive. Ia the distance, indeed, but in the line of our present movement lies the "federation of the world." ( Nation Without Railroads. Wsshington, Nov. "2. England is des tined within a . few years to be come a nation without railways or with railways I supplementing n highly developed system of motor transportation, according to a special report msxle today by Brigadier Gen rrsl Chnrlcs B. Drake, Chief of the srmy motor transport corps. The fnrerst i hi ik) made "with reason after a study of the recent railway tie-up in England, it says. 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