Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-25
S|MONDS' WAR REVIEW

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half . million men and got her mo-
where. Since that time she has con.
trfbuted partly by her armies. but
ducins a Russian revolution. she has
at the same time defeated Rumanta
and Italy. But Rumania ana Italy
were not her chief enemies: they we're
only the enemies which threatened her
allies. As for Russia, her success IN
putting Russia out was immediately
negatived by her success In getting
tho United States into the war.
he was fighting all Europe Napoleon
recognized that British successes In
Spain did not carry with them any
real menace to him: he saw that his
on the eastern front. Il he won against
Austria, Prussia and Russia yelling.
toms little army would have to retire
to the lines OF Torres vedras as It had
gun to lose in the east and was com.
PEELED to recall troops to face his chief
enemies that wellington was able 70
reach French soil italy e IN the same
war.
Last year the Germans lost their last
great campaign to dispose OF France
ssteis The sns were
compelled to retire some twenty miles
on q wide front ana evacuate thou.
sand square miles Of French soil But
on their main front by a brilliant vio-
tory over Rumania, which entered the
war under Russian direction and was
promptly betrayed tn Germany by the
Germanophile traitors in control In
Russia.
This year Germany has lost q whole
series of battles on the western front.
together with 10000 prisoners and
threatened with q general retreat from
the Belgian coast and out OF northern
France. But she Is Disgusting these
reverses by q brilliant success In Italy.
partly induced by new treachery both
on the part of the Russians and of
some Italians, seduced by German mon
ey or Misrepresentation.
Last year the world was enormously
impressed with the Rumanfan victory
of the Germans and for q moment 1t
looked as II the Germans might get a
negotiated peace on the strength OF TINS
success. But they did not This year
for q negotiated peace, using the Itai-
ian success as the text But why should
they want peace II they have the war
won7 Not because they love peace as
to this, and all the professions OF fndu.
entail Germans just before and Just
after the war began established this.
viously because they recognize that
they cannot win the war.
Not Ready for Peace.
If the Germans had won such q VIC
tory against the British in Flanders or
the French in Champagne as they have
won against the Italians in Venetia they
would not be ready to make peace.
They would not be talking about peace.
They would be discussing the war map.
If they should win such success
against the British or the French. there
would be no occasion for them to talk
about peace by negotiation: the French
and the British would have to do the
talking. The man who tells you that
he is sure to win his action against you
to settle to save lawyers fees. usually
has bad case.
The German has lost his three great
offensives-the Marine. Verdun and the
remaining hopes on the last and risked
getting us into the war, because he ex-
pected to win before we could become
effective. His real foe now is Britain.
burden of the fight. Tomorrow he will
have a dangerous enemy In the United
States. He can't conquer Britain In
Italy-he can't even conquer Britain in
States in Italy and he can't conquer
France in Venetia. Neither can the
British conquer Germany at Jerusalem
or in Mesopotamia. If he can't conquer
the British or persuade them they are
conquered the German Will lose the
war, even without Intervention, because
| the British control the sea and the Ger
man cannot live permanently without
| the use of the oceans. If he can't force
| the British to abandon their blockades
and let his merchant ships out he must
persuade them, and for this he will have
to pay. His sole currency is the terri
tory of Britain's allies which he holds.
He has no British territory. while the
British have g million square miles OF
his.
Napoleon won Austerlitz. Jena, Fried
land. Wagram. but he lost his fight
against Europe. He overran all of Aus
tria and of Prussia and far more of
Russia than the Germans have overrun.
He made a vassal state of Prussia,
mere recruiting field of Italy. He domi-
mated Spain from the Pyrenees to the
neutral strip facing Gibraltar, but he
ended his days at st. Helena When
you compare the Napoleonic achieve
ments which preceded the final defeat
with the German achievements you see
how incomparably less important are
the later successes. Yet all the early
successes did not give Napoleon perma-
nent hold on that for which the Ger
mans have been fighting for three years
without ever attaining, even for the
moment-the mastery of Europe.
These are considerations which ought
to be borne in mind when the German
makes his next peace offensive, as he
very soon will