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Show AMBITIOUS NATIONS By NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Chairman, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. IT HAS become clear that treaties count for nothing in the face of national ambition and of what the ruling statesmen regard as national security. Therefore There-fore Japan is moving steadily toward to-ward the extension of her control over a vast portion of Asia. Therefore There-fore Italy is feeling her way toward the acquisition of new territory and new economic opportunity in Africa, Afri-ca, while Germany is, so to speak, tossing in her bed, stirred with ambition am-bition to extend her authority toward to-ward the south and the southeast. To deal with a complicated and very real situation such as this will tax the world's wisdom and the world's statesmanship to the utmost. ut-most. These conditions, serious as they are, become more so when it is realized how closely they are bound up with the various revolutionary revolu-tionary movements now actively going go-ing forward in the fields of economics, eco-nomics, politics and the social order. |