Show UNIVERSAL DEMOCRACY NOT YET AT HAND for the reaper by frank P litschert we were told during the world war that we were fighting for two noble purposes first to end all future wars and second to establish universal democracy in all of the countries of the world no one will seriously deny that the american people as a whole were moved by the two noble purposes and that these were not carried out can be laid to postwar post war developments that they have not been carried out is evidenced by the facts the nations of europe do not believe that war has been ended for all time to come if they believed so there would not be now so much feverish preparation for war nor so much mutual distrust and jealousy nor has lini universal versal democracy been j dished in spite of the tremendous sac i orifices made in men and money As a matter of fact instead of adopting democracy europe seems in many instances to have veered toward autocracy to cracy germany of course has a new republican form of government which seems to be functioning pretty well under natural and inevitable handicaps but in some of the other countries the situation is different for there are now a half a dozen nations in europe ruled by dictators the sixth one jugo slavia took on its dictator just a few days ago the list is an imposing one italy russia spain poland greece slid d jugo slavia it would seem therefore that abai the coming of universal democracy in europe is not yet at hand the revolution in russia heralded as bringing in the brotherhood of man has resulted in one of the real governments in the history of the world in which opposition to the government and free speech are not tolerated in italy mussolini tools took charge when it seemed that the country was slipping into communism and dictators took over the reins of govern government mentin in poland greece and spain to stop what threatened to be a civil war or a dissolution of the government and now jugo continued on page four continued from page two slavia the latest in the family of autocrats was compelled to adopt the dictator form to save itself from fro serious trouble in this latter country a serious difference has broken broke n out between the flae serbs gerbs who had bad their ow own go government vern ment in 1914 and the croats choats a who under the authority of the austrian empire at the beginning gini ling of the war the two nations have ap apparently parent ly been unable to g st along under one government they speak the same language but are of different faiths the choats croats being roman catholics and the gerbs serbs greek orthodox in reli religion gion their political politic al history and their P present resent political differences are too complicated to be detailed here suffice it to say that they form only another angle to the complicated european political puzzle in america where we have forty eight states all under the same government with free trade and a free exchange of ideas among all it is difficult for us to understand all th this i s but we can understand that with so many vexing problems in the PO political 1 situation in europe it is better for us to stay out of the muddle so far as possible and to attend to our own business for troubles are not in jugo slavia alone they can call be found fou hd all over europe europ e and they are apt to start a real conflagration whenever any of the larger nations can see any advantage in such conflagration france and italy are vitally interested in the fate of jugo slavia and e each ach is struggling t rug gling for the upper hand in that part of the balkans but there are other sore spots too germany and poland are still at odds over the polish corn corridor ador lithuania and poland have not adjusted their difference neither have russia and Run rumania iania and there is friction too between the latter country and hungary germany wants to annex austria too and italy and france at odds on most questions are agreed that this must not be done |