WORLD DISORDER

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1932, Page 5

WORLD DISORDER

AN URGENT PLEA

FOR NATIONAL CO-OPERATION

(United Press Association— By Electr Telegraph.— Copy rig l -D)

f~ LUX DON, April 16. * Sir Au.vten Chamberlain (late Foreign Minister), in the- course of a statement, said : “Wo have piftl our House in order, and have balanced our budget, and we can face the future | confidently, but we' cannot do. it alone. Other nations must contribute if -he world is to recover its lost: prosperity. Unless we stand -together, we shall ■fall, one after another, into a common pit of misery and decay. The policy of “Each for himself and the devil take the hindmost” has gone past. Americans, Englishmen and Europeans must remember that they also are citizens of the world- One longs for a Dr Stresemann (late German Foreign Minister) again. Hitler is a Stresemann. Let us pray that no folly will be attempted, lest a reaction in Germany should breed a reaction elsewhere.

‘‘The principle, that the United ; £);ates has proclaimed for China, that changes due to the force of war wont be recognised, needs firm assertion tor Europe,- after which we would he astonished by the progress that would .immediately be possible. . Does the United States yet recognise, as 'Europe does, a stronger desire for agreement and seeks salvation by mutual sacrifice, she will t-iirn to America expecting her not to be less unselfish and far-seeing. There, is no cure for the evil from which the world is suffering unless the war debts are dealt with .simultaneously in the same spir’d as the repatriat ons, the abolition of which the Americans desire no loss than the Englishmen and the Europeans. Sacrifices would be in vain unless wisdom and understanding are also given the American people.’’

ANOTHER ENGLISH VIEW

BALKAN PROBLEM REVIEWED

LONDON, April 15. A vivid description of the European complications as seen in Geneva, was given by Mr Green wall, the Daily Express’s’’ .special representative -who depicts the scramble of the Balkan Powers for money. “France,’’ he says “is .seeking further powers to help her sf t'llites, while she herself is choked with hoarded gold. True, 1 ranee lent millions of francs to Jugo-Slavia and 'Hungary, but benefited largely through orders for munitions placed by these Balkan countries. The works at Do Creusot and the Skoda works, formerly Austrian and now Czeeho-Slovakian ] -reived many large orders for the Balkan states, “The Financial Commission of the

League, which expressed regret 'that so much was spent on war preparations, recommends a loan of thirteen and a half million dollars to Greece. “It is clear that the hegemony that France established in 1919 is begin-

ning to totter. Now France has conceived the idea of mgking the League / a super state,’’ but, says Al- Green- * wai], "unless France abandons the idea America will not remit a cent of the war debts, while it is understood that Britain has definitely decided not to grarf; any help to the Balkan countries unless she is convinced that they desire to help themselves.”