The sun., 1916-01-06
EASY TO INVADE U. s.
NORTHCLIFFE SAYS
Declares That Army Could Be
Landed Here without
Much Difficulty.
ATTACKS HENRY FORD
~ LORD NORTHCLIrrE.


Copyright. 1916. bv the Uaited Pre..
LONDON, Jan. 5.-Months ago I plainly
expressed my belief mat We were m 10,
a long, long war.
l do not pose az q prophet but I do
know something about the toughness
With that OF tho Prussians, and I do
know that each day brings access of
strength to US and weakening to them.
Your position TO-DAY is not at all
unlike ours before the war. You are
as eaten UP with commercialism and
paciHcism as we were. mad you are no:
in such a good position for fighting as
we are. by reason of the lack OF unity
Of the races that now compose the
United States.
On the other hand. you offer the same
temptation to any hungry and aggres-
sive enemy that we did You have lots
Of money. few soldiers and compare
lively few sailors. Troops can be moved
to your shores from hostile countries
In little more than the time than 1t
took to move bodies from New York
70 bOstOn .VO years ago.
Invasion Danger.
The fact that we have been able
10 transport at least a million soldiers
across the sea shows that any Euro
pean or Oriental nation could, IL you
were unprepared. AS you are. ship them
to you.
England. France and the other Al
les are grateful for the sympathy
they have received from large num-
bers OF Americans. Some ten thousand
Americans, number Of whom nave
already become officers. have shown their
loyalty to the cause of democracy. free
dom and individualism by enlisting in
our army either through Canada or
direct
The Germans have their ideal. 1t is
not ours II Is not that OF France nor
is II that Of the United States. Their
ideal Is the subordination of the mass
or the people to discipline. Just as
their women are entirely subordinate
to their men. so their men are subordi-
mated during the whole OF their lives
to either police or military laws.
A great many Of them have escaped
from Germany to your country and our
colonies to avoid this very system of
government That is why 1t is difficult to
understand why what you call hyphen-
ated" Americans who have left Ger
many for freedom's sake. should be sid
ing against the United States and with
Germany. II Is. | imagine, a question
OF racial amour propre.
-. =. Help Not Needed
The point Of view OF practically
every Briton ] know, and one which is
shared by Canadians. Australians. New
Zealanders and South Africans. IL that
the English speaking end OF the war is
a matter for the British Empire. and
that, despite our lack of preparation
We do not need any help from the
United States
Another section Of British thought,
and this also applies to almost all French
thought, Is that the intervention OF the
United States would be calamity Ia
the Allies.
The German American vote is OBJ.
v.ously so easily able to dominate many
o! your politicians that 1t H. felt that,
when We permit peace to be discussed.
the Americans, who have almost for
gotten the horrors Of war and who come
into the struggle very late. might be
Inclined to patch up this horrible con-
f!ict Ill balanced, ignorant. but well
meaning people like your Mr. Ford, are
supposed 10 be typical Of many In the
1 l
never met them during the many jour
neys i have made throughout your coun-
try.
a Frenchnan said to me recently:
IL wonder II Nr. Ford had been born
in. let Us say. Lille. instead OF Detroit
and his mother had been murdered and
his sisters outraged, whether he would
have been so strongly IN favor Of peace
with Germany.'
HOsttltty to Ford.
! wonder. tco. We regard anybody
who wants to make peace now. before
the Allies are prepared. as a pru-Ger-
man, and We will not print one line OF
the Ford advertising IN this country
despite the frantic efforts OF his agents
to se,ure publicity here. The poin, o,
view thar premature peace is pro-,ier.
man does not seem TO be understood in