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Show PEACE RIOT IN PARIS. It is to be hoped that our international interna-tional pacifists who blame Uncle Sam for everything that goes wrong in the world, arid profess to believe that if we scrapped our navy and disbanded our army the entire world would be at peace, grasped the significance of the breaking upof the international peace meeting in Paris with rioting. The conference was supposed to give an expression of the peace-loving qualities of the nations of the globe and the delegates were recruited from forty nations, advocating peace through disarmament. -''But the conference was not permitted permit-ted to function and it was finally broken up by hostile elements in the audience. The furor caused the collapse col-lapse of Viscount Cecil, of England, President of the Council, and made it impossible for the meeting to hear the international radio address of Senator William E. Borah. Alanson B. Hougton, former United States Ambassador Am-bassador to Great Britain, was unable to restore order and the . meeting was finally broken up. The results of this meeting ought to convince our own pacifists that there is at least some warlike spirit left in Europe. In no city in the Unit- . ed States could a meeting of distinguished distin-guished men and women, laboring for peace by such disarmament, have been broken up by discordant elements. But it happened in Paris and up to this time our pacifists have been silent in their condemnation, if any. Perhaps they are waiting to think up a way of blaming the fiasco onto Uncle Sam, even though it happened in Paris. As a matter of fact, there is no militaristic spirit in America and the efforts of the international pacifists here are misdirected to say the least. If they want to do something for peace, let them turn their propaganda guns on Europe where the propaganda propa-ganda is needed. |