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Show . I "SOLEMN COVENANTS." , I At this time when there is a grand drive and propaganda is being fired at us from all sides to get us into the European situation and help European Eu-ropean politicians carry out "solemn covenants" in the interests of "world peace," a few remarks that were uttered ut-tered the other day by a prominent French statesman about ' another "solemn" promise we got not long ago will be out of place. Speaking of the agreement of the allied nations to pay their debts to the United- States after these debts had been generously reduced Senator Sena-tor Henry Revenger, president of the senate of foreig-n affairs commission in France, is quoted by the United Press as stating: "The debts all fell into catalepsy more profound than death, and the miracle that would resuscitate them is not in sight. "Humanity has continued to live without these obligations, and nothing no-thing can prevail on the forces of the future, which desire to be freed from I the chains of the past. ! "What is the good of insisting on payments that nobody wants to ; make ? What is the use of scribbling ' new nonsense about an agreement? "There certainly will be experts to elaborate a new plan and diplomats to write their texts. But where will you find the people to pay them?" Here, is a good example of how Eu-' ropean statesmen regard solemn and honorable obligations after they find that it is not in their interest to ; make good on these obligations. It is! not a question of inability to pay., Italy, who pleaded poverty when its war payments becar.e due, is spending spend-ing hundreds of millions in an effort to overcome Ethiopia and so grab off ' for itself some more land and loot. Creat Brifain, which has pleaded poverty, po-verty, although it has balanced its budget, is planning to build the most powerful aerial fleet in the world and to spend millions on its navy, which is already the most powerful in the world. And we are solemnly told that the debtor nations do not pay us because they cannot pay. The diplomatic hypocrisy in Europe Eu-rope has been spread on so thickly it can be seen 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, and any American statesmen states-men who by intent or folly entangle us in another European mess ought to be buried politically ten feet below be-low the bottom of the bottomless pit. |