Show m H frith K hit 1 M H H H H M h NATIONAL AFFAIRS i WRITTEN FOR tite P 1131 RECORD dr BY FRANK P LIT fitschen litschen T la in BIT air interesting eur european 0 article e in a lecent recent isue ot of the tha new york times jules Sau erwon foreign editor of le matin published in part paris ns as va friend of the league of 0 nations discusses the decadence ol of the league alter after setting betting forth in ill detail the cross country ot of european politics which have brought about the decline ot of the league M wein says I 1 I 1 we are reverting to the prewar pre war I 1 policy with hasty stride alliances bring counter alliances and if this goes on an the league ot of nations NatI pris will be nothing more than a tribune where ministers ot of various powers will come to speechify once a year the league ot of nations Is therefore sick but M has not given up hope he has it a remedy for this illness the league he declares must have central energy and authority this it cannot have havo now yet he adds but lets the united states independent and distant enough to judge european quarrels dispassionate and strong enough to have great influence on the decision of the council resume her position as the founder ol of this institution end and everything at once would become different M has correctly described the present situation the league Is in a decadent state the present situation lr ir europe indicates that athe united states senators who blocked our entrance nto into the league were endowed with almost prophetic vision they told us its in the debates in the senate that either the legue would become as M now describes it a tribune where various powers will come to speechify once 9 a year or it given alven military power would eventually I 1 involve the members in serious difficulties if e s well the first horn of the dilemma I 1 Is abe the one which has grown most the I 1 league gue has been given no teeth and no sincere support or humanitarian grounds from any of the great powers it is doubtless lucky for the world that this has been so tor for otherwise europe might easily have been pa plunged lunged into new conflict but the result has been the decay ol 01 the league and now M and his european friends proposes to give I 1 rejuvenation by inviting uncle sam mw into the family circle but the picture Is 13 not one which will be reg regarded aided as particularly inviting by the average american who I 1 has received a liberal education in european politics during the last tew few years somehow or other the scene of your uncle samuel independent and distant enough to judge european quarrels dispassionately dealing justice to the balkan jungle cats and the quarreling neighbors of russia seem quite convincing vin cing imagine the united states to in the league or the league council furnishing the deciding vote on the albania question with and italy at swords points or telling poland and lithuania what to do about the possession of a disputed city and supplying the moral or perhaps physical means to put the decree into effect fr from am one horn born ot of th the dilemma I 1 we would then have reached reache the ather only to find that it had a a s sharp arp and decidedly dangerous point with his cosmopolitan population and his troubles at home uncle sam Is not looking for a job ot of this kind and if the friends ot of the league in europe are looking tor for succor from such a possibility they are going to be disappointed everyone in america would be pleased it if the league could work out some sort of an agreement tor for the pacification of europe but after all europe is the trouble maker not america and europe will have to put its own douse house in order |