UNSETTLED EUROPE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 459, 17 February 1933, Page 2

UNSETTLED EUROPE

HELD TOGETHER BY MILITARY POWER, POSSIBILIY OF STRIFE. New York, Saturday. The inevitabllity of strife and possibly war in' Europe, which must involVe the United . States to some degree, was stressed here hy Mr. Alanson B. Houghton, fBrmer Ambassador to Great Britain and Germany, before 100 memb'ers of the school of politics of the Womeri's National Republican Club. "To many of us," he said, "believe the world war produced a permanent situation in Europe. Nothing is further from the truth. The net political result of the war was a comparatively simple thing. We helped break down'the German rule of Europe and set up the French rule of Europe. "We have to-day a new Europe, held together hy military forCe. It would not last a single moment in its preseftt form if it were not for military- force. The iron framework, possibly m'ayl soften to permit of inevitahle adjustments, but we may^ presume that it will he broken 'again by force. "Half the people of Europe feel they have been treated wiekedly and that they are living under intoleraable conditions. The other h'alf is termed and strong, dominating the situation. "One thing is ahsolutely certain. We cannot be isolated. But we can control the extent to which we care to involve ourselves. If war comes we shall be involved or he infinitely hurt hy the resulting ruin."