Visitor Says Solidarity is Not Recognised.
Mr, Frederick William Kellogg, fonce'a newspaper proprietor who controlled several journals. in Call fornia, all of which he sold to Mr. ita C' Copley in 1028, is among the Passengers in the Resolute.
Mr. Kellogg—a close friend of Mr. W.R. Hearst whom he regards os a. great statesman and a man of fore. convietlons—has an intimate Knowledge of Buropean conditions, He Is greatly impressed by the need for a clearer. recognition of Germany's difficulties. The solidarity of the German people behind Herr Hier is a factor which Mr. Kellogg feels la not sufleiently recognized 1 England "and. France, "The present Journeys of Sir John Simon and Mr. Eden do not thrill him, for he considers that they tend to accentuate, the isolation of Germany and to per~ potuate What he holds to be a state Of slavery in Central Europe.
Mr. Kellogg believes that the clear-Ing up of the currency situation is the task to be tackled by American statesmen—and tackled soon, if the world is to recover its balance. He apprehensive lest the peoples of Europe should be dominated by the armament and banking interests whose power in the League of Nations ho considers to be a definite stumb-Ungeblock in the way of international peace. In fact, Mr. Kellogg asser's that the world's commercial morality suffered a severe blow in the Great War owing to the profit-making instincts of "big business" and he main= fains that tioso interests are. still dominating Europe. Germany will come out of the crisis best because she has rebelled against economic servitude and has found her soul. Mr. Kellogg does not believe that the old German militarism is being revived: it is rather the assertion by a gr people of their right of freedom and their "desire for clean living and moral government. He takes the view that England, France and Ttaly have overlooked that aspect of the reconstruction problem and will los out. in consequence!
The diMiculty of the West is the aimeuity of the ast—the loss of stable currency facilities, The ad~ vance of Japan in the Orient is, in Mr. Kellogi's opinion, a factor inthe stabilization of peace. "Japan knows what dhe wants and will reach her to the common benefit of elt IF. Kellogg Is also associated with the owners of the Scripps-Howard newspapers which are among the lable American publications. was formerly Miss Florence Scripps of Detroit. They were married In 1890.
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