The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-05
HOW ALLIES MAY
LOSE GREAT WAR


who has made a special study of
problems of strategy and written
several books on the war;
On every hand men are asking:
When will the war end. To that
man knows. But we can get nearer
to the answer by grasping the fact
as to how the war will end.
First, let me clear away a greatly
Astounding fal1acy. 1t would be posi-
BILE for a peace to be signed next
month; but it might not be the ind
of the war; it might even be a prodi-
gious pro1ongation of the war at a
hideous disadvantage to us. Don't
let US make any mad mistake about
that. The written bond of the Ger
man is wholly without value. He has
said it; and he has proved it. 1t fol-
lows that any lasting peace must be
beyond German undoing.
The war will end only when certain
things are made absolutes it can only
so end. It is vital that the man in
the street should try and grasp what
and when that end will be. He will
at the same time have revealed to
him why the German wants peace;
why he wants it as soon as he can get
it; and why he harpS on the status
you.
There are stupendous moral and
spiritual ends which must determine
the war; but it will first of all end
with a map.
To those of us trained in strategies,
a map speaks. It is what the map
tells us that means victory or defeat.
The man on the street has only to
yc,i,,o inf his mind
and to keep it there, whereby to judge
and form his will all the time.
If he will take a small uncolored
map of Europe, and shade or tint Ger
many, Austria, Serbia, Rumania, Bull
| garia, Greece and Turkey: and then
draw a scarlet line from Hamburg at
the North Sea, through Berlin, Dres-
den, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Bel
grade, NiSh Sofia to ConStantinople;
then go back to Berlin again and
draw second scarlet line to Breslau,
ECracow, through Bucharest to Con-
stantinop1e; then a branch scarlet line
from Vienna to Trieste at the head of
the Adriatic Sea, and a branch line
from Nish to Salonika at the head OF
| the Aegean Sea, this map will at once
reveal the Pan-German Empire, and
the great arteries whereby alone the
enemy can realize his dreams of
world conquest.
1t was to make this map that the
German made his war; and he has
made that map. The conquest OF Ser
bia opened the gates to his Pan
man Empire towards the East. ~
| Now, certain worthy old gentlemen
| have been telling US that if we de-
| throne the Kaiser, or if we smash
| Germany, in the west and free North
| ern France and Belgium we have ,wor
| the war If we make a peace on sucf
misunderstanding or Sentimental1ty
and leave the map that we have JUS
drawn to the Germany then we have
lost the war.
The Kaiser does not matter a groat
It is for the Germans to dethrons
him or to keep him.
i If Austria does not break ava.
4 from Germany and create herself int
confederation of free peoples &C
cording to nationalities, hostile to al
German Nominations, or unless thos'
| peoples are made free with or withou
i confederacy in united Austria, tn
war will not end, no matter hov
many treaties of peace are signed.
The simplest mind can see that Bo
hernia, Poland. Rumania and Serbia
|
many and shatter the Pan-Germal
dreams of the conquest of the world
but that these peoples unfreed be
come the highway to that appalling
adventure. Whatever humiliation
Germany may eat in the west, leav'
the German his Pan-German map
. and there will not only be no end o
this war, but there will be no ent
to German ambition.
Established as great Pan-Ger
| man Empire from the North Sea t.
the Levant and the, Persian Gulf, tn
German will set to work afresh t.
conquer the world with enormousl,
increased powers and resources.
Il 1t is above all necessary, not onl,
for the man in the street to under
stand the situation, but for him t.
stick it, without complaint until tn
hideous nightmare that today stalk
: the earth has been effectually laid.
Let it be remembered that our cou
sins of America have drawn the swor'
for one mighty aim-that the people
may know the freedom they desire.
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