The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26

men, III lLe new ByHlLdSluhl OL Ill0 Y. M. c. A., at 3:30, will speak on the subject, What America is Fighting For" These meetings are for all men and boys over sixteen years of age. Splendid music will be rendered by male quartet consisting of Sidney Col borne, Harold Knowles, Eugene Heb bard and Edgar Webster. This. quar- tet includes some of the finest male voices in the city of Bridgeport and itself is sufficient to attract full house.
 Angel is one of the most prominent writers and speakers on the present i war in the world and the following i are some of his ideas as given out in interview and lecture:
 That the world is changing, that new ideas and startling theories of government and economies are every where springing up and being treas ured by clever men-that Germany is taking advantage of these phenomena and is preparing to twist them to her | own profit, while the Allies, stubborn and timid in conservatism, are not alive to the times-waS emphasized l by Norman Angell, the noted Anglo ! French-American pub1fcist and au- |! thor, when interviewed in New York i by a reporter. MT. Ange1 had just I spoken at a luncheon of the Civic ] Federation of New Haven in the Uni versity Dining Hall and had there l brought forward a plan for a per rnanent inter-Allied Parliament. This parliament might consider all the po- i'lttical questions constantly arising over the world and to treat them | from the common. point of view of the i greatest good for democracy.
 l, MT. Angel touched upon all the great questions of the day-the Rus 1 sian upset, Alsace-Lorraine, League ito Enforce Peace, British Imperial ism, freedom of trade.
 When asked as to the Allies policy toward Russia and especially that of the United States, he said: "We are apparently planning to throw Russia over and to let her, as it were, cook m her own stew. Because she is not in tip-top military form, we are pre- pared to leave her to German intrigue. This will be Germany'S greatest op- portunity Snd she will not hesitate to develop it. Russia may be Hkened to a vast fluid, plfable mass in such state of ignorance that any well-dt- rected propaganda may sway her as # pleases L1enine and TrotZky, for instance, may install themselves per manently in power by making great : promises to ignorant minds. Already , the fleet and the northern army are I behind him, as well as Moscow, the center of old Holy Russia
 "A Russian officer tells me that ! nine tenths of his men could not tell time. How can you expect powerful offensive from such men, when every move must be timed to the half-min- ute, whel the slightest miscalc1lation may drive a whole attacking force into its own barrage fire. The thing was only accomplished for the Rus sian army by the cultivation in the men of implicit obedience. Russians will no longer be implicitly obedient; but they are open to suggestion. A vast mass may be moved by few well-chosen words.
 ''Now this is a fact that Germany is aware of. She will not be slow to influence simple Cossacks who went with elation into the war in 1914, be- cause they fully believe they were go- ing to fight England. It will do no good for the Allies to fight their way to victory in this war, if Germany can steady herself on a Pan-German RuS- sia in order to prepare for the next conflict Our concentration on mill tary strategy may only serve to strengthen the enemy's autocracy, by leaving the vast field of world poli- tics to him.
 ''But many people will say that 1t is dangerous to meddle with anything in which the Kaiser in any way, think ing that he is the a1l-powerful politi- cal wizard before whom Others-free peoples especially-may only crlnse. It was this attitude that kept us from the Stockholm Conference"
 It was suggested that the Socialists of Germany were probably in league with the Emperor and that we could not meet them on fair terms. fVery probably so," answered MT. .Angell, @but in that you only carry out my statement Because the Kaiser had a finger in that pie, we were afraid to touch it. Yet that Congress gave Ger many an immense advantage before the public opinion of the whole world because it seemed that she had made q definite proposal of negotiation which the Allies had refused to con- sider It put us in the position ot
 military aggresSorS. How easily
 might we have sent representatives to Stockholm and outclassed the Ger
 mans on their own ground.
 tfNow at first sight it may not seem that this action on our part could have been particularly dangerous, be-
 cause there is so little of the world
 left neutral that it fS hardly worth
 while to play for it's -approbation- IT
 that hypothesis, however, we are for getting our own people. There art vast numbers of Englishmen anc
 Americans, and far greater number!
 of Frenchmen and probably also
 Italians who want to be shown. The! Hove peace, and they aren't exactl! anxious to fight a war unless the. know what they are fighting for. I'm vote for Hillquit in New York showed at once how many of these peopl there are and how successful Ger many has been in winning them over
 Because our governments bluntly re
 fuse to consider peace in any form
 these people give their trust to Ger
 many.
 Now peace is not in itself an odi
 ous thing at all. A premature peac
 in this conflict certainly is. But un
 less the governments of France, Eng
 land and America show readines
 to consider peace, a vast number o
 citizens will stubbornly believe tha
 one refusal of a premature peace onl
 means that we are militants.
 "We may not deny this fact or it
 danger. We have experimented wit
 the lives of millions of men. h on