Show Var War Not Imminent Into the sick i k room of ot a world which needs nothing so ro badly as quiet in which to struggle through the lon long process of recovery comes the terrifying roll roU of or the war drums It is a a. devils devil's music that shakes the heart of the stoutest its effect upon a convalescent Is to provoke hys lena teria The h hysteria will be calmed Realists in all aU the capitals of Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope see that war is not imminent That Is to say it J is it no more imminent nent than it was a year ago despite the drama of Hitler's Hillers bold g gesture ture Best judgment is that the guns will not belch death this year or next Business here and abr abroad ad will calm its ils acute attack of jitters and go goback goback goback back to the problems of workaday workaday workaday day existence But that Q a new European war is in the making is the sickening truth Jt t will be called a new war Actually Actual Actual- ly it will be the continuation of the theone theone theone one that broke out in 1914 The Versailles Treaty was not a peace but a truce It was only a military truce economic warfare has been uninterrupted since 1914 really Je be began egan e- e gan before that Moreover it was a truce upon outrageous terms If It we are not exactly where the world was in 1914 we are certainly where it stood dOod in 1912 Principal difference Is a score of rankling grievances now for every everyone one that existed in 1914 We do not know who will wilt start the We do not believe any responsible leader In all aU Europe wants it it or orvill will vill consciously strike the spark But more murders are committed in a l sudden spasm of or fear than in cold malice That is how war will come come come- Business Week |