Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-27
Enemies of To-Day
viii Remain Foes
After War Is Oue,

mandc.' and in Berlin Il French Jour
nal De BERLIN privy Councillor and
Consul Rene Schemcd the inviting of
French celebrities to lecture in Berlin.
aud NJ. John Grand-Cartcrct did not
wait for official arrangements, but UNI
dertook on his own account a success
fHi French occurring tour across Ger
many.
IN l'hrtS q i'rauCO-Germa CONNER
cial committee for. the ~furthcring of
mutual trading relations was consti-
iuted, the french chairman of which
was the former minister. NJ. Yves
Guyot. In Switzerland a meeting OF
French and German Liberal members
OF Parliament took place. and it might
nave resulted in bringing about u COM
nietc reconciliation hut for the Alsacc-
lorraine question. which proved an
lnSurInountablc obstacle.
Alas After the prrHcn: war we
shall behold nothing of the kind. 1t
VIII have lasted too long. have been
too cruel. have left too iudcliblc traces.
The mothers. wives, children we.ping
mourning dress, but their souls Will
rcmatn in black wells. The
soldiers returning from the war Viii
not forget that the enemy has robbed
them OF so and so many years, the best
OF their lives, INJECTING on them u per
mancnt mcnacc of death and AN un-
interrupted Sojouru in Vcrmin-infcstcd.
NTH! duGoutS. too dirty even for beasts
accustomed To weller In mud. The ILL
treated war prisoners, the carricd-off
and confincd civil populations. Will not
pardon their fortunes and humiiiations.
and they viii hand down the tale of
their SuiferiuGS to their children and
10 the children Of their children. The
runs OF l.ouNHin. Rheims. ArraS. Lille
and N"rdun Will uutircdly repeat their
mute, Vet ,lDuIlslt iniirf n,.ufG ,nl
by association OF ideas, keep alive The
memory Of the hundreds of sunkcn
ships aud OF the thousands OF drowned
men. women and children. Pens and
pencils have ORR innumcrable. deep,
and smaiting wound in the souls. and
the press OF all countries has poured
in them murdcrouS venom. They never
will heal.
FOES or TODAY
WILL REMAIN ENEMIES
sooner o. later the diplomats viii
conclude peace, hccausc the peoples
cannot bear an everlasting war. hut
the peace Will exist ON the paper. not
in the hearts. our generation will not
witness an Iinglishman or IIrcnchman
rendering his hand to II German, an
italian To an Austrian, a Serbian 10 a
bulgarian. Those who are enemies
to-day will remain enemies, with all
that this implies. international CO.
- ''N'A'A' At stStit Oh inc
past. there will only he coalitions of
the actual allies against their actual
adversaries. The place of work in
common will be taken by boycott: by
Boycott Of the people, of the goods.
OF the ideas. Of the works.
This state viii hr horribly UNI
natural. For the law of nature is
not hatred, but love. II is affection
mat keeps the world together. In the
i"hs run men Will nud themselves side
by side again. because il is not nos
Sihie otherwise, because il responds To
me deepest impulses and necessities Of
human nature. But his blessing is
refused TO the CONTEMPORARIES Of tile
great war. Those having lived in the
Egypt OF hatred will not enter the
canaan OF reconciliation. Thcy an
viii die during the forty years Of the
wandering IN the desert of hostile cs-
trangemcnt.
The moral ana economical damarc
10 Europe. to mankind, that this means
IN incalculahlc Ana I have not seen
any one taking into account this dis
hstcr when he tries To grasp in iieurcs
the havoc wrought hy ,hc war.