The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-11-28


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people many facts concerning the war
and doubtless this has been wise, but
they could not if they would conceal
| the part the German people as whole
have played. Every one of us knows
that the latter, whatever their status
| or their politics, supported their gov
eminent as long as it appeared to be
winning, glOatingly approved all the
crimes and OutrageS committed, and
repudiated the leaders of the criminal
! conspiracy only when their failure
was assured and it became necessary
| for them to look for some way of
| crawling out from under the wreck
age.
Why, then, should the president of
the United States or any other repre-
sentative of the powers that defeated
Germany, feel it necessary to make a
special plea for square deal for the
vanquished? Paraphrasing the old
saying, what we demand for the
Germans is plain justice, and ID
little of that.
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Mr.. Wilson is said to be especially
concerned in the problem of estab.
fishing a stable government in Russia.
and there is reason for his concern.
That distracted country has bobbed
up again in the news columns and the
situation there is, if possible, more COM
plicated than ever. The new all-Rus-
sian government that oCfoh1ichn6
at Omsk and recognized by most of
the anti-bOlshevik elements is now in
control of Admiral Alexander Kolchak.
The council of ministers executed
coup detat and made KOlchak the vir-
tual dictator and commander of the
all-Russian army and navy. He is
called supreme governor" Several
opposing ministers were imprisoned.
What the course of the commissioners
of the allied governments will be is
not known.
Along the Dvina the bolsheviki at
tackled the allied forces and were. re-
pulsed with heavy losses. Since then
they have cOntented themselves with
Smelling the Russo-allied positions
from the gunbOats, with which they
are better supplied than their adver!
saries.
An event that was very gratifying
to Washington and the entente Cap
itals was the overthrow of the Ukrain-
ian government and the capture of.
kiev by anti-bOlshevik troops from
Astrakhan under General Denikine.
This opens the way for the allies di-
rectly into the heart of Russia While
they were being Ousted at home, the
Ukrainians were engaged in cOntinu-
Gus fighting with the Poles in Galicia,
where they had taken Lnmberg, and
in Bukowina, where they held Czerno-
WITT. There. as in the Ukraine, the
Okrainians were hci~S.,d by German
officers.
No news has come from eastern ST.
IBERIA, nor is much to be expected,
since its dissemination is under the
control of the japanese. The recent
lifting of the censorship does not
seem to apply to that region.
The government took two steps last
week that aroused much comment and .
lot little protest. The first was ar.
control of all the marine cable svs-
ems of the United States; and the
econd was the consolidation of the
ervices of the Western Union and
'ostaI Telegraph companies under
governmental control. Postmaster
General Burleson is in control.
a.
congress adjourned on November
L in order that the members might :
ave a brief rest before the short SEES.
ion opens on December 2. Tie pres. {
lent has planned that all imnortant N
eglslatlon shall be held up during his
essence IN Europe, the scheme being
nave the vice president and sneak
"lthhold their signatures to bills y
assoc; but considerable opposition 70
us plan is developing. Many leaders II
congress contend that there is IT, .
7nt necessity for legislation i'm the S
ne OF reconstruction, in which Amer
already is being outstripped bv En.
pean nations.
PRESIDENT Wilson signed the r,od n
'ouuctlOn stimulation bill with tho r
'nes rider, and consequently tho O
nlted States will be 'bone drv,' fror,, r
'ne oU next until the time when the fc
OF its fighting forces 81
ueen completed. The importation
ALI Intoxicating drinks stons a+ te
ce' except that wines NAV he i'm III
iteo until May l. 1919. The Honor ~
'erests may contest the const,fr. hi
nal1ty Of the law. re