Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-21 | Page 4 | Dumb Diplomacy

r- r DUMB DIPLOMACY General Smedley Butler told a aY THEN JW Y group of Massachusetts business men menthe menthe menthe the other day that war is nothing but dumb he lie voiced a simple truth that OUght to be impressed on the tile mind of every diplomat on earth t If U you care to test his assertion you might consider sIder the course of events in international during the decade or so preceding the he World war I The rue diplomats were playing a complicated game in which each one tried to win some advantage came for his own nation How well did they play it anyway Well there were the German diplomats Germany wanted a place in the sun room for e expansion opportunity to improve her Iler herf f foreign trade What did she get A ruinous ruinous W war r that wrecked her industries obliterated her foreign trade lost all her colonies and left her so exhausted that today the rest of the world h has s to unite to keep her from col col- col- col lapse apse Russia had diplomats too What did they get for their country A war that wrecked the monarchy years suffering t to millions of people e and a form of government government govern govern- ment that is the pet bogey for all the tile rest of cf the world And the English supposedly English supposedly the best diplomats diplomats dip dip- of ot them all Before the war England was as unrivaled mistress of the tile seas possessor o of cia a thriving foreign trade banker for all the World head of the mightiest empire ever seen Today she shares the tile s seas as with the American India has weakened millions mil mu- n navy vy her grip on ll lions ns of unemployed live on the dole industry Is crippled and the foreign markets are van van- 2 The French perhaps did better But France has hs lost more than a million young men plunged deeply into debt and emerged with th a fear that keeps Europe an armed camp Then there Is the United States If you vant to know what we got out of the war look around a bit General Smedley Butler has made several foolish remarks in the last few years But Buthen when hen he e said that war is dumb diplomacy he Kerns to have said a complete te and unanswerable unan unan- 2 rable mouthful