Show EUROPE'S PRECARIOUS PEACE PEACE- A 1 THOUGHTFUL man studying studying Europe Europe today S 8 ai almost be might be pardoned pardoned- if he began to believe that the end 5 of f all things was at hand It is a long time since the sky sl has been as dark darkas as itis and nd hard to see how it gould could be mu much muth h darker arker A Arid d yet if it is j just st p possible that what we are looking itt at now is not the th ev eve of general dissolution but that very dark daric hour which according to tr di ion comes just before the dawn S 5 I If f. f there is le left t in mankind ina any sanity atall atall at- at t. t all the present troubles in In Europe p r ought t tobe to tobe be convincing I ing evidence of the war post-war era have been disastrously impracticaL cal aL The frenzied tangle of repression competitive com corn armament blind nationalism n disregard gard of economic law and exaltation of strong armed dictatorship is giving all the wo world la a ac c complete of its ruinous futility It is enough to show the blindest that the nations na na- cannot go much farther along the road road- they have been following without tumbling into the thc pit Today Today's situation is not like that of 1914 In that day the world had not had its frightful demonstration of the catastrophe which war war brings to victor and vanquished alike nor was the thc imminence of war a matter of general knowledge except among 3 a relatively small group of statesmen Now every one down to tot t the e most ignorant peasant knows that war war is near knows that if it comes it will mean complete com corn disaster for everyone involved And the disorder the bloodshed the menaces which recent weeks have brought may just possibly bring g g the he statesmen of g o their heir sel se senses ses Se J 4 |