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Show - Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.v INC. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. 8UB8CRI.PTI0N PRICE: in United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the Including postage six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal $1.50 for Union, $4.50 per year. Single copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake March 3, 1879. of Act under the City, Utah, 8alt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- 13 EUROPE YIELDS ON TREATY; NEEDS U. S. HELP departure of Sid Edward Grey and the arrival of Sir George THE marks the surrender of Great Britain to the irresistable force of facts. It was a theory that brought Sir Edward to our shores ; Sir George has come to acknowledge that facts are supreme. Originally President Wilson was responsible for the delusive theory entertained by Lloyd George and Sir Edward Grey that Great Britain and the United States, by means of the League of Nations, were to enter into what would amount virtually to an Anglo-Saxo- n alliance for the dominion of the world. It was a grandiose conception of the power of the English-speakin- g peoples and it would have established an imperialistic sway before which the conquering dominion of the Roman Empire would have paled its ineffectual fires. Sir Edward Grey waited three or four months for the ratification of the league covenant. Then becoming convinced that the Presidents promises were vain and that the Anglo-Saxo- n league was not to be created, he departed. The dream of his life had been shattered. He looked into the years just ahead and realized that the British empire, without the backing of the United States, would be subjected to titanic internal and external shocks that might rend it in pieces. Sir George Paish harbors no dreams ; he faces facts and cherishes hopes. He comes to us on the theory that if there is to be a League of Nations the compact will be modified by. reservations fully safeguarding American sovereignty, nationalism, independence and safety. He is the spokesman for those who trust that the treaty will be ratified with reservations and that the United States will then, as a friend of Europe and not as a guarantor of Great Britains empire, undertake Cv the rehabilitation of the old world. Whatever America wants will be acceptable to Europe, said If America feels that certain Sir George shortly after landing. reservations to the treaty of Versailles are necessary that is Americas business, and no ally nation has any wish to dictate. Nor have I discovered any hostility to reservations on the part of statesmen and financiers who count. No, Europe understands America quite well enough to perceive that there is nothing hurtful to Europe in the present treaty situation based on the demand for reservations. It is, however, essential to the welfare of the whole world that America ratify the treaty as swiftly as may be. I am not, if you please, offering my opinion. l am assuming to convey in few words what I have found European sentiment to be. That is, let America ratify in any manner she wishes to. We merely pray that her assent will soon be recorded. When Lloyd George and Clemenceau put their faith in President Wilsons promises that the treaty would be ratified without change it was the plan' to float an international loan of many billions which should be guaranteed by the allied and associated powers. Inasmuch as many of the allied powers were almost or quite bankrupt the United States guarantee was the only one, with the exception of Great Britains, that was worth anything. This country was to bear the burden of saving the world financially. Sir George Paish, upon his arrival, entertained some hope that the United States government would stand behind a loan for the reconstruction of Europe. He said that such a loan was absolutely necessary, but that it might have to be financed by private interests. He now fixes the amount of the loan at $35,000,000,000 and seems convinced that the United States government will have no share in it. The changed attitude of Great Britain and of Europe generally ought to work for good. The original theory that of Sir Edward desire to dominate. The Grey had in it too much of Anglo-Saxo- n new theory appears to be that all the nations of Europe, aided by the United States, shall be friends, none seeking unjust advantages while each safeguards its own national interests. Sir George strikes a generous note when he places the necessity of an enemy before that of a friend. He informs us that the worst sufferer in Europe is Austria because Austria is starving and can be saved only by outside aid. His utterance is in quite a different spirit from a pledge given last year by one of our great philanthropic organizations, which, when collecting clothes for European sufferers, promised that none of the clothing would be sent to Germany or her former allies. It was an pronouncement and would not be reiterated today for the good reason that we have traveled far in a few months from the uncharitable aftermath of the war. Speaking of Austria and her plight Sir George says : I am not sure whether Americans understand the dreadful situation of Austria today. I have come here, therefore, to give such information as I have to various men who have, as I know, the faculty of getting things done. As to how those things shall be done I offer no opinion. That is Americas business. I speak of the desperate need. Austria is starving. Two and a half millions of people arc in shocking case. They have no food. They cannot work, because they have no raw materials. They cannot start the wheels of industry and commerce, because the they have no capital. Their need embraces everything.- Even hospitals of Vienna are about to close because of lack of funds and un-Christ- ian - |