The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-27
ALLIES MUST CONTROL GERMANY.

Germanys btterest enemy could not wish her a worse
fate than that which is rapidly overtaking her. The
signs of disintegration unmistakable. These
signs may have been feigned at first but they
genuine evidence of decentralization that Fastening the
country toward universal anarchy famine and savagery
The inherent brutality fthe people coming out against
themselves that they have been foled in their war
of loot and conquest They defeated, dislusioned
chagrned famshed and disorganized The iron rod of
absolutsm is longer them. They discover that
they whisper criticism of their demgods the Hohen
zolerns without suffering punishment for lese majestic
and this discovery is making them dizzy They be-
coming drunken with the new wine of liberty, just as
the oppressed Russians mstook liberty for license when
they threw off czarism.
The basest passions Of humanity are aroused to the
full pitch of devtry when and famine combine to
do their perfect work In victories the Germans
ruthless ends in adversely and famine they will not
be less Soldiers of the entente repeatedly told of the
nsectike heartessness with which the Germans tramped
upon the bodies of their wounded and dead Now these
soldiers returning find barren cupbOards in broken
homes, no work. no money and no government except
what they may make by their own brute force. These
men have been fed with horrors for FIVE years They
feel that life is flicker of fire. that there is deity
except the lord of msrue. They feel that they have
been cheated of everything but fe 1t seems reason
able to that they will seize power and use it with
reckless disregard Of anything but their own appetites
Already the bolsheyih Of Germany declaring that
the lives and property of the middle and upper classes
are forfeited Under the lashngs of famine and an
archy out of all restraint will surely take what they
want from those who have it, and opposition will merely
increase the intensity of mob hatred The large cities
will be in danger of destruction and will be destroyed
unless authority steps in to control the mobs What
authority is at hand? None other than Marshal Foch
and his armies.
There will be ncendiarism and pllaging in Coblenz
which will be in the hands of the Americans; nor in
Mainz which will be under the French; nor in Cologne
which will be under British control But what of Leipzig
Munich, Hanover, Stuttgart, Hamburg Bremen, Chem
ntz and other large Cities all of them honeycombed with
socialism rapidly turning into boshevism? The news
of roting in those cities will inevitably induce the allies
to intervene not for the sake of the Germans but for
the prevention of property destruction The allies cannot
afford to Gemanys property swept away it is needed
as means of assisting Germany to pay the debt she
owes to the world The occupation of the major part
Gemany-ce certainly the large ctes-is a strong prob
ability judging by the events in Russia and the tenden-
ces of human nature under the stress of war and famine
The allies would have occupied Russian cities and held
the boshevk down if they could have done So but Ger
many and Austria-Hungary were in the way
1t is to the interest of Russia that the allies should
prevent boshevism from destroying Germany. If Dol.
shevism should triumph in Germany it would be many a
day before Russia could be restored but with Germany
controlled by the allies the bolshevih of Russia would
soon be squeched Thus it is by no means improbable
that the next few months will Marshal Foch's armies
protecting the worlds liberty against another foe than
autocracy These armies can be made just as effective
against boshevsm against absolutsm and if the sit
uaton should require such action the allies should moi
waste moment in applying the remedy
For these the United States should not be in
too big hurry to return the army from France-Wash
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