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THE WEEK IN
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SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1918
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THE NEWS
Real Democracy?
striving to undermine the instinctive
sense of justice of the American people
So far as this member of the European under the imperial titles of unity must At present there are tnose wno are by means of specious humanitarianism, a
allisuice is concerned, the necssary proc- be brought to an end, and the beginning prepared to accept at its own valuation plausible liberalism, and a very compe¬
tent assumption of intellectual and
esg of disintegration has taken place, and may be made here in the territories of anything that calls itself a republic or ethical
the equally necessary process of réinté¬ a defeated and utterly discredited enemy. a. democratic government, from red Bol¬ superiority. The danger point of
gration is under way. The procedure The greatness of the German peoples shevism in Russia to political autocracy civilization did not lie at the first or the
tan not be permitted to rest here. If, was the greatness of the small states. among the various allies. Slaves of second crossing of the Marne, it exists
through the devious plottings of the Bol¬ Saxony, Bavaria, Franconia, Swabia. words and phrases, we miss the truth in the future, and at the council table
shevist-Pacifist faction Germany con¬ and no true greatness has developed un¬ and the fact, and our danger is the where the terms of peace are to be de¬
tinues to exist as a unit, with German der German imperialism; only a gross greater thereby. termined.
Austria added, and Holland also if the and conscienceless force which, oblivious The treatment of Central Europe So far as the people of the United
States are concerned, there is not the
conspiracy now in process succeeds, then of the difference between right and after the war is a test case, and the map
Germany has won the war, ultimately if wrong, oblivious of justice, oblivious of that follows therefrom will be indicative slightest doubt where they stand. They
not immediately, for she will still remain every element of liberty and freedom, of safety or of peril, as the case may be. want justice for every people in Europe,
a powerful, centralised force, strategi¬ has striven to establish the hegemony If all Poland.German, Russian, Aus¬ whichever way the sword cuts, whether
cally placed, and in an admirable position of the world under the supremacy of trian.is not incorporated in one sover¬ for the carving out of a great Poland
te reestablish herself as a dominating Prussianism. eign state, with Danzig as its seaport; in glory and honor and in compensa¬
«snomic and political influence through if all the Southern Slavs are not guar¬ tion for centuries of oppression, or the
Escape for anteed absolute independence; if the carving up of the putrefying empires of
toe interpénétration of Russia, the com¬
ponent parts of the old Austria-Hungary,
sod the Balkan States, toward which
No the Evildoer Czecho-Slavs are not reconstituted in an Austria-Hungary, Turkey and German;?.
independent state ; if Schleswig is not re¬ They want neither Imperialism nor Bol¬
sta is already looking. To quote from what I have already turned to Denmark and Alsace-Lorraine shevism in Europe or in America, and
written on the subject: to France; if the Turk is not driven out those that try to enforce either will get
The process of fission under way to
the south must be continued through name "Without the blotting out of the of Europe forever; and if the occupied short shrift.
and the fact of Germany this portions of Germany, west of the
^ the Baltic and the North Sea, and if would be impossible, and the same is
tie German peoples do not carry out true of Austria-Hungary, for *he has
tàis process by their own initiative, then not escaped, and cannot escape, üi¿
Rhine, are not erected into an inde¬
pendent sovereignty, then the future of Enlightened
Must Rule
Opinion
it mast be imposed on them by the Peace odium that attaches to her ally and Germany is assured. If the people will demand a reunited
( «inference. The crazy Bolshevism now overlord. From the first day of the The partition of Germany is then as and sovereign Poland
war.and before.Germany has fol¬ coterminous with
The Victor's imperative as the partition of Austria- the Polish race, the expulsion of the
rampant is only a passing phase. It« has lowed a cynical and consistent policy
Probably been initiated, and is being fos¬ of violating every law of honor, every
Thanksgiving Î Hungary, now practically accomplished. Turk from Europe, independence for
The exact delimitation of the future
tered, by the very powers that precipi- custom of decency. She has «said, frontiers is another
Palestine and Armenia, the delimitation
teied the war. It is a red herring drawn 'Evil,a be thou myof good,' and has built described is not penalization but possi¬ dinating force is, of course, necessary. "league of nations" is that this might be which may take a long matter,
and one of frontiers in the Balkans and the for¬
across the trail of persistent imperialism.
up pyramid lies, brutality and ble redemption." Not a weak and impotent Hague tri-" time finally to de¬ mer Austria-Hungary in accordance with
crime, unparalleled in history, that constituted as, or tend to become, a termine. This
Once the German armies are safely back would brand forever the name and na¬ With the substitution for the gros.s buna], but a real force, though not one involves the question of the free wish of the various peoples, and
sovereign imperium. "Internationalism" what constitutes real nationality. The
within German territory order will re¬ tionality of 'German.' To the end of and discredited imperialisms of many that can be permitted to interfere with such as this the world cannot admit or the permanent partition of Germany into
paie its sway, very possibly under a time this word can only stand as the states of human scale, a central, coör- local sovereignty. The danger of the prime factor in this is the will of the at least four independent states
endure. Nationality is as sacred a thing they
restored monarchy, and once more Ger¬ incarnation of malignant falsity and people freely expressed. Against this will probably get what they want.
obscene bloodthirstiness, aggravated the Allies cannot stand, even if they had
many will become the eternal menace to and intensified by a kind, of devilish the desire which, manifestly, is not the
otherwise, imperialism and Bolshevik-
a free and consummate ingenuity. There is Pacifism may very well so far control
Europe.
no penalty man could devise to impose
upon her so ruthless and annihilating
FEATURES WITHIN case. Nationality is not
entirely condi-
tioned by language, religion, ethnic
the decisions of the peace conference
R From Germany
ussia Mnst be Saved as the leaving to her people the name
of 'German' or the retention on the
characteristics, economic interests 01
strategic frontiers, or even by all of
that all that has been gained by the
world will be sacrificed and the scene
ky regard witn calnmeHB the future piate an interlude of infamy and re¬ to-day. Out of the world must come ai and a faction, if it is
¦<*** apparently lies before them. The
store to a once great race, its forfeited
self-respect. Partition such as that
11, 12 even more emphatic nationalism thai sufficiently impu-
dent and aggressive, can make ***** sacri¬
any that was known before, and whether fices of the of no
war a
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