Show Mailed Fist Replaces es Diplomacy Diploma y yAs As Means of Settling Disputes By WILLIS THORNTON Written for The Telegram Nothing shows better what has happened to the world since Armistice day 1918 than the widespread rejection of peace as a away away away way of life Today few people talk of peace as a decent and permanent way ay of running the worlds world's affairs The best we can hope f for r is peace as a desperate putting off of a war for which we feverishly prepare Today talk of neutrals' neutrals rights of barring jarring barbarous practices in war of adhering to a treaty after it has become a T Th I MM h d i rd U vantage to to do so such such things are Art Article i c I e shrugged aside as unrealistic in in Series But before e the World war such things Were no joke j ke to thoughtful people eople Peace sentiment and workable workable work- work able ble machinery for adjusting disputes disputes dis- dis utes between nations had made progress Treaties Ended Disputes In 1914 the senate ratified 18 of 20 treaties n negotiated by Secretary Bryan ryan for peacefully settling dis- dis War Var with Mexico after the theVera thevera Vera fera Cruz affair seemed inevitable But Argentina Brazil and Chile mediated a settlement at Niagara Falls A universal peace congress had hadeen been een planned in Vienna in September Septem- Septem ber er 1914 The war killed it I Peace conferences at the Hague had been so successful that perfectly perfectly per- per sensible people believed protection protection pro- pro of noncombatants and neutrals neutrals neu- neu rals outlawry of dum-dum dum bullets bullets bul- bul lets ets and poison gas had been ac- ac They felt sure that workable machinery had been set setup setup setup up for peaceful adjustment of differences dif- dif or at least to confine war within narrow limits War ar Changes Picture What the World war and later wars have done to these accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments needs no rio comment After the World war the peace movement took new hope Among Wilsons Wilson's 14 points were 1 Open diplomacy 2 A just realignment of Europe's borders and of colonies 3 A general association of nations nations nations na na- na- na to guarantee political and territorial independence for great and small states alike A mere reading of the words tells what happened to that dream The peace treaty was not made in inthe inthe inthe the open Many of the 14 points went glimmering in what was less lessa a peace than a distillation of war hates lates Ceaseless unrest testifies that the borders laid down were not satisfactory U. U S. S Rejects League The United States in a wave of disillusion rejected the league Defeated Defeated Defeated De De- De- De Germany and revolutionary Russia were excluded when 41 nations nations na- na ions organized the league Later Germany and end Russia were to join but Germany Japan and Italy withdrew withdrew withdrew with with- drew when the league tried to re restrain restrain restrain re- re strain their aggressive movements Great Britain and France dominated ed the league and its policies from the opening session The United States wanted no part of the war settlements Her wish to withdraw from international affairs was evident from 1919 on But a narrowing world kept forcing its problems upon her When war reparations failed war debts failed and the United States had to try adjustment with the Young Dawes and Hoover moratorium plans ups Line-ups Revised Slowly at first lately with a rush diplomatic conceptions and lineups lineups lineups line line- ups changed utterly from those known to the prewar generation The allies after the World war tried to perpetuate their winning combination France closely related related related ed with Poland Czechoslovakia Rumania Belgium and other small countries tried to hold hoid the primacy of E Europe rope All this fell as Hitler rose and Germany now v dominates th the continent Britain's Britain s mighty empire is no long longer r so dominant In Asia Japans Japan's apparent conquest conquest conquest con con- quest of China completely alters the Pacific world In the new international world of f 1938 the United States gropes to toward toward toward to- to ward new policies new alignments that will fit into a world that is as utterly unlike that of 20 years ago I as it is possible to imagine Next National self cy is today's rallying cry |