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shaved races which In whole in part have been in
Guided within limits OF that grandiose German
scheme Of Mitteeuropa. These representatives of
races which the German has characterized inferior
people" and whose permanent slavery .
ed his hopes OF world empire the most historic Of
American buildings made appeal o American peo-
pie al n making this war a true war OF
liberation. And is 10 this phase Of peace
Element that desire present article.
The Mitteleuropa which the victories OF AIlenby and
dEsperey have recently all annihilated,
on the from the Baltic to the Persian gulf; 1t in
cluded more than 100000 of people and OF these
but half were German; the balance belonged to
score OF races and Of these the Magyar the Osmanh
and the Bulgar admitted degree Of partner
ship In the German conception the AustrO- German
and the Magyar were TO be the overseers Of the savs
and Latins OF the Hapsburg empire, the Bulgar the
padrone OF the Balkan races the Osmanh Turk the
agent OF the German master Asia Minor.
This Mtteleuropa has been broken; Bulgaria has
surrendered, and has Turkey Austria in the happy
phrase Of a German orator. lis disoanding" On the
negative side the nations in alliance against Ger
many, have prevailed. We have broken the German
conception but this is obviously only the first step We
have to finish the fight with Germany herself to
achieve that victory which must be achieved before
there be peace. beyond step the
next which is of appalling magnitude We
prevent recurrence Of the German attack Of mega
lomania Of lust for world empire.
GERMAN RACE
How shall we achieve this end2 Obviously it is not
possible to destroy any considerable fraction OF the
German race, there moral justification for
such We cannot in any considerable meas
IRE partition enslave the 100000 members of the
Teutonic inhabiting central Europe this
would be merely create Alsace-Lorraine
That this great mass Of German people would ultimate
" regain unity did regain that
Europe would 5e in state Of Unstable equilibrium, is
patent
By contrast it is not now possible to conceive that
the 75OOO 900 Germans would in the past have under
their gigantic civilization had they
exercised complete control over equal number
people only a small percentage OF whom will
ing subjects allies An alliance between 45,OOO.OO9
Britons 100000 French 35 600 600 Italians togeth
ISOOOO.OOO Russians. of before the
Russian revolution, would have constituted obstacle
great to be passed. Germany rsked her frlghtfu
solely because mastery of other
If break the hold of Germany upon subject
races If we can transform war into d lib
Grafton, if free some 6O,OO0,OO0 Of men and
women from the yoke of Germany, we shall nave
obstacle great to tempt the ambition of
contrast if we rain TO do this all history points to the
probability that at other time Germany will
the charge France. in the days before the
unhcation Italy Germany. placed similar obsta
cles I'm the pathway Of her Imperialism.
PROBLEM Is To ERECT ADEQUATE BARRIERS.
its simplest terms The problem of those who are
redraw the of Europe is to such barriers
expansion the expense of the rights and
liberties other races that Germany herself will
ognize the mPossbility OF the undertaking, and be-
come what used 10 described "a good European
We cannot do this by taking German territory. Here.
again, history eloquent unmisakable. The unity
of the German people a permanent fact doubtless
be extended in by the entrance the Aus
tran into the Teutonic family establishment.
our solution must inexorably be found in the just
and proper recognition rights aspirations Of
those millions of people who yesterday Ger
manys helpless slaves whose men supplied the cannon
fodder fields yielded the food whose factories
furnished the machinery for the war. whose
contribution the German side, alone made
this war possible. We set them free. must
provide with the for separate
national existence, guarantee them our
durng that relatively short period necessary
their organization.
We should do all of this as an act Of justice owe
Poles the Rumanians the Greeks. the Serbs,
people of all the enslaved bestow upon
then. those blessings, preserve which.
were concerned. took up against Germany.
aside from the moral aspect which should be
trolling rarely international relations. there
the material consideration. Unless do hberate
fortify these shall have night the Ger
again. and he viii again be able TO throw these
people their labor their lands
support his
The question OF the league OF nations involves other
considerations yet here. we may be that
league OF nations have ghost OF chance Of
success, # not founded the doctrine Of equal
Iishts au AS "a insurance aganst
this league nations will be impotent IS the holy
alliance the recent OF Europe, If
derueath there exists ulcer such the Eastern
question the problem italy presented after the Con-
-ress Vienna. II make peace without bestowing
agreements seek It's rights and inevitably, Overset
nations the Balkan states overturned
the concert of Europe.
MUST ABOLISH MENACE To PERMANENT PEACE
To make peace permanent abolish evils,
which are a 60 permanent peace the
greatest such evils the survival international in
justice expressed in the denial of liberty
nation The refusal or Europe divided by its sell
fish ambitions do justice the small Balkan states,
led Balkan themselves inescap-
ably through Serajevo Armageddon.
question Poland. OF Rumania. o the Austrian
slavs. then a remote and relatively unimportant
question Americans ON the contrary, NEST
vital of all questions Germany has beaten
and forced 90 surrender our mission, II We 10
mission. the making or peace lie in
dilute chs mpiouship OF the risht OF all the peoples.
whose condition the past has been such Is make
q world coufa gration possible inevitable 10
desire to send boys Lorraine Cham
payne generation hence. must see 10 it that the