The Reflector

Issue Number:24

Date: 01/20/1934

p. 01-02, c. 02-02

On the morning of November eleventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen the nations of the world agreed to "cease fighting", so, the Armistice of Rethonde's was signed, which paved the way for the International Treaty of Peace that was done at Versailles, June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and civilization heaved a sigh of relief and was thankful that one of the most bloody periods since the history of man had ended.

Today, just fifteen years, and a few months since the signing of Armistice, and there are obvious signs that authorize deep concern for a world that had experienced enough of war. Universal peace is no longer hoped for. That is plainly seen by the attitudes and opinions that have come from some of the most significant points of the globe.

On December twenty-ninth, Foreign Commissioner, Maxim Swinoff of Soviet Russia, made it clear that his government expected and was willing and ready to fight Japan in the East and Germany in the West.

A few days later, Vice Admiral Nobumasa Suetsuga, of the Japanese navy, alarmed the world by stating that the Japanese no longer considered white race a superior one and expected to fight the United States and any other nation of the world that held a contrary view.

While from Washington, D. C., our Capitol comes the reassuring but war-like message of Mr. harry H. Wooding, the assistant Secretary of War that the American Army stands ready for any crisis.

A decade and a half has been long enough to prove that the contracting nations are not willing to sacrifice their national ambitions for international good will and universal peace. All nations, beginning with Germany, have demonstrated that.

Nations have seemingly forgotten those bood-soaked days of the last war, the millions of human lives lost, the millions of dollars spent, the burdens that are still "hanging on" as a grim reminder of What Price War! Yes, nations have forgotten their pledge of international peace and understanding; the various agreements are but insignificant pieces of paper, disregarded in the mad rush for national ambition. So, nations, just fifteen years after the international Treaty of Peace, are asking again for WAR.