Show Diplomatic History of E Europe Enters New Era a By T n. n n. n 31 U. 1 Copyrighted by U U. P. P P. P IUS By arrangement with I Foreign Affairs Affairs Affairs Af Af- fairs of London LONDON Oct 6 5 By Dy U U. I r.- r. The British noto note to France and Bel- Bel glum Blum of August 11 shows that a ane anew anew ne new chapter has haa been opened in the tho diplomatic history of ot Europe The era of ot diplomatic opposition has now succeeded a the Interregnum of ot Mr Sir Ir Bonar Donar Law Laws g II benevolent neutrality which followed the fatal fatal tatal fa ta- tal I period of active diplomatic ac- ac quiescence In In 1 Trench rench action characteristic characteristic characteristic char char- of the coalition administration adminis It is s the inevitable reaction re reaction reaction re- re action against tho consequences ol ot the Lloyd Llod George George-Clemenceau partnership partnership partnership part part- In producing the treaty of or Versailles supplemented In the ensuing years jeara by tho the de decisions decisions decisions de- de of ot innumerable conferences and the tho Paris farts and London Mr AIr Baldwin has moved forward t the e first pawn The noto of ot Au August st 11 is s the in initial initial In- In step In what will will be bo the long difficult and dangerous process of ot endeavoring endeavoring- to undo the tho whole disastrous policy to which In the tho intoxication of or victory with that passion for power consumes Pledges and silences conscience with the facile facHe opportunism which sometimes passes for statesmanship Mr Lloyd George this country in the spring of ot 1919 A dangerous process process' Yes Yes' But Dut assuredly containing less len of peril than a cowardly renunciation to shoulder responsibilities are aro Incumbent upon this country as a n. member of It the European body which are ire partly self created and which we e cannot repudiate If It we wo would If U you jou ou lend a hand in put putting ting out ft tt fire there Is always a chance of ot being Injured But nut If you jou OU stand aside asi e and allow tho the flames flame to spread there Is risk of catastrophe for everyone everone yourself Included Europe la to lion on fire tire Our country fort to assist may get In scorched extinguishing si in na an the effort ef- ef fire But But Dut to turn our back upon the fire tIre and to pretend It 1 is I. not there thero Is to convert cOn tho the possibility of ot being scorched into a a. certainty of being burned For our part We Wo applaud Mr Baldwins Baldwin's appreciation of this truth and his courage in facing It It Mr Sir Pal Baldwins Baldwin's d Position ia is difficult ctt He lie I is handicapped by the acts of ot his hla predecessors ors by his hid hard die-hard supporters sup sup- porters by the fact tact that some Bome members members mem mem- bers of or his own government were also members of the tho coalition by tho the attempts of ot some Bome of ot his hla colleagues col col- col- col leagues to run a II foreign policy of ot their own and above all by the jungle of ot falsehoods and make moke believes believes be- be In which the issues issue Involved have lived llva moved and had their be being be be- ing for so eo lon Ion long and which still exists to confuse contuse the mind But Dut Mr Ir Baldwin has haa done the indispensable In In- dispensable thing He has reasserted reasserted reas- reas the right and the intention of or this country to participate In the tho councils of ot Europe He has haa repudiated repudiated the role of ot a a. mere mero spectator of ot otI Europe's 3 progressive ruin For that the country Is indebted to himA him I A A. MENACE l TO PEACE The chief merit of ot the British I Ii note noto eat Is t that it puts puls s an end ed to a a. ld situation i n which had become o 1 Intolerable OI I erable era For Tor the tho past eight months J 1 we had be been ni Indirect accomplices In to toa Ina a R. policy which apart from apart from its ita other other oth oth- er aspects Is la plunging Europe In economic chaos Our position was humiliating Our advice was brushed aside our to Interests in interests interests In- In ignored Beneath the surface surface sur Bur face tace ft n. condition fa of ot affairs was maturing maturing ma ma- turing of the g ging gravest kind In involving vol vIn v- v In ing a ft steadily increasing menace to peace the longer lone It remained ot- ot pf- pf unchallenged by a British rit government The crucial problem which now s Is whether the he economic and political political l life of t the continent is to be allowed to revive and function normally or whether tone nationalistic ambitions on the one hand and d the of va vast t and ld ramified o 1 industrial s Interests r on the theother theother other will succeed in preventing this revival and unification If It the first fir alternative Is followed then there thre Is a greater chanco chance than n ever eer before In history that the mass mans massof of ot sick unto death with nine j years years' ears ears' experience I CO COf of f the tho fu- fu fu futility rill wt i d y and el costliness costliness Pi o of war and alive to its Us immensely intensified will devise a new method for liquidating sectional differences and nd will create an efficient efficient ef er- machinery for that purpose If It the tho second alternative triumphs triumphs tri trl- then the forces In Europe whoso Interest lt is identified with continental revival and unification and those which consider the re revival revival revival re- re vival and unification of the general life lite of ot the continent as le lees s Important Important important Im Im- im- im than considerations of ot national national na na- ambition political or economic eco eco- or both will come Into violent vie vio lent collision and mankind will once more bo be dragged into war from which European civilization will probably not recover GERMANY TilE THE PI OT I OT I That is the problem and the Versailles Versailles Ver Yer- sailles lallIes treaty created It The pivot upon which It turns Is Germany Because the tho European body cannot resume Its ita functions and th the component farts Darts of ot the continent cannot annot come ome together again unless the tho o fl millions mIllion t or of t Germans German who live within the boun bOU bounds the tho German republic are ft freed ed the political and gallon gatlon which paralyzes paralyses them h hin in paralyzing paralysing them paral Europe j Britain now stands for a ore r tion of or what Americans Il i T inder her malcy matey pres pre Frances subordinates les a II r w normalcy to i ds ambitions although although pie in tho mass are not to fUll of ot the tho tact fact Germa Germany y enough w will III take a all tires ures ri open to her e to to t from the fetters er which 1 and British governments or or one 8 1 fastened upon her In 1919 1910 buy her liberation If It she r her oer new now prime minister ha ha Intimated But she may t II V polled to buy it at a a. price tb harness her Industry and dire policy In the service of ot Trent Freric aspirations whit again but in another for tor Europe towards toward a now new or and political t II contention content on onis Is what a British diplomacy I vent ent tH |