The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-06-18
FOREIGN RAPS AT THE PRESI-
DENT

10 lne government.
FOREIGN RAPS AT THE PRESI-
DENT
A presidents lot is mot a happy
one" especially when that president
is the head of a nation trying hard
to preserve scrupulous neutrality.
President Wilson has certainly sue
|ceeded in pleasing neither of the bel
ligerents. The German press accuse
him of being the ally of our enemies"
to quote the Kolnische Zeitung and
the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger gravely adj
vises him to give up all hope of acting
as mediator when the war is over.
The French papers at the same time
accuse him of moral cowardice in not
entering a protest against the violation
of Belgian neutrality. Thus Mr..
Georges Clemenceau, an eX-premier
of France, in long article in his
paper, the Paris Homme Enchaine,
says:
"Some neutrals still hesitate His
tory will wonder that the most notable
of them has not dared to protest
against the violation of Belgium's
neutrality, apropos of which Presi-
dent Wilson, following the pope's ex-
ample, is still gravely consulting his
law-books to find out if right has been
outraged"
A still more bitter attack is made
by the brilliant journalist, Mr.. Gus
tave Herve, in the Paris Guerre So
ciale, which runs:
After letting the Belgian violation,
the Louvain massacres, the Reims
destruction, and the asphyxiating gas
pass without flinching, that wise man,
President Wilson, timidly informed
Germany when the first torpedoing
without warning of an English snip
carrying neutral citizens occurred,
that he considered such a proceeding
was not absolutely in conformity with
the law of nations. Perhaps he would
have received with the same philoso-
| ply the massacre of his countrymen
in the Lusitania had not the indigna-
ton of all un-German America brought
him down from the heights"
The Paris Lanterne is mordantly
sarcastic:
Like the heroic American boxers,
President Wilson accepts the rudest
blows with prodigious stoiciscm. No
where was the Lusitania tragedy re-
ceived with such calm dignity as in
Washington. The president has pom
dered and reached a decision-doubt-
less the wisest one-of pointing out to
| the Germans the unworthiness of their
conduct. This great citizen of a free
America proposes to make the kaiser
blush for his misdoings. He knows
the diplomacy of humility also he has
the mastery over his own heart"
La Lanterne thinks that the presi-
dent should have definitely come out
on the side of the allies without any
further ceremony, and processes to be
unable to understand the presidents
determination to preserve peace:
| Doubtless the president is right,
but such wisdom requires amazing
courage and heart strangely invul-
nerable. So lofty is this moral great
ness that our feeble understanding
can not fathom it; to our poor Latin
intelligence it is as incomprehensible
as infinity."
In England the same regret is ex-
pressed that no protest was made in
the matter of Belgium, and the Lon
don Morning Post, while admitting
that America has no locus standi, as
! she was not one of the powers guar
anteeing Belgian neutrality, yet thinks
that the president could have entered
q protest on the grounds of humanity
mot only as regards this, but also in
the matter of floating mines. The