South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-03
BY FRANK SIMONDS,
Ne~s-Tnmes and Associated
Newspapers War Expert

which hope o dominate the OF mankind.
1t is not the territorial aspect however which wish
TO emphasize in this statement. covering al
ready discussed frequently these articles this
is before ell else a liberation. The that
just honorable settlement sixty
millions OF human beings from slavery which their
respective races has endured over centuries chat il VIII
besOw unity upon other races that viii draw map
based upon the ambitions kings the appeti-
tites OF inperalstic nations IS for no the supreme
fact which far justify al the suffering Of
four years
If we are to have federation OF the world we can
only have II when all the world s free. II
end OF the practical OF the superior
race" the dream of world power" only have
when in place Of half helpless and ensaved
natonalities between the frontier ana the
Golden Horn have a many independent nations
The whole German ambition founded the no
coneQuering subject races. OF
feating Russia and dominating Europe by using 90,
100000 subject Slavs The liberation OF the smaller
races win thus destroy the whole German opportunity
automatically.
And whatever the possibility Of a league of nations.
and after the present terrible world tragedy all
will eagerly hope that It succeed and advocate the
loyal and earnest trial or the plan It must remain
experiment. while the results OF liberation al
ready To give liberty 70 race is TO give il in
santy promise Of material prosperity following NOR
al health one has only IN what fashion even
the little Balkan states have developed with but mod
freedom. has only recall the miracle OF
modern Italy to grasp what new Europe IS 70 come
when sixty millions Of people are set free.
LEAGUE GREAT AND NOBLE INSPIRATION.
The league nations a great and sobe nspira-
tom it may be translated into the most splendid fact IA
human history. But It cannot even have chance 70
succeed II It brushes beneath it's foundations the un-
happy body OF little people. II do not make
all deHOcraces, for all races. all
reopes. II we don't see 10 that the pole the T2ma
Man, the Southern Slav the Bohemian Slav
his righful place In the sun. then whole
edhce Is built upon untruth and is substantial de-
pretends
1t is not little thing 70 hberate sixty millions Of
people. 1t is fact TO the world at last
point redressing centuries old. Each
against people has brought ts punishment for
Europe. The nations which guilty OF the
nations which permitted by allowing by
without protest, all have suffer. But now. the
the defeat OF the greatest since the
Of the days the other barbarian inroads have
the opportunity to undo wrongs almost without num-
Der.
The ink Of the signatures o final document OF
the Congress of Vienna hardly before the
gle began TO iniquities. struggle
unued the present hour. We at distant date
TO frame another document OF even greater moment 70
mankind. To-day the whole tendency IN the American
public discuss the practical and physical facts
but the impalpabe consequence We are taking IN
terms of Utopia the moment when It IS possible &C
the liberation OF millions OF and women.
who must be set free before anything else becomes even
remote possibility
We have fought and winning new war Of lb-
We the point
sixty million Of Their hands stretched out
to US, n a keeping
long tyranny begun crumbe and the masters Of
the old regime the The last chain which
Metternch associated with him put upon
man liberty at vienna Is breaking. II one could only
recall the millions OF and women OF the sub
1ect who suffered and dared died, main
talned through all their agonies by the hope OF the
coming the hour which has come, could gain
notion Of the splendid possibilities Of
the day which we live.
IN other times after wars coalition wars or contests
individual nations. the prize the
province, the control Of continent, the power 70
pose nations Will upon another. To-day, there
close the greatest OF all wars the plain
portunity Is within grasp a settlement;
which will FAR toward making world I'm
possible But cannot DO this merely by interna-
tiopal agreements The Holy Alliance the Con
Of Europe good examples OF the futility Of
such insurance policies.
INDEPENDENT HOMOGENEOUS STATES READ
SAFEGUARDS
If do not erect strong and homogeneous states
the pathway Of German ambition n do not
enable Poles the Rumanians the serbs de-
against a AIitteleurOpa there nothing
history suggest that the great
its old worship OF and its old lust for
pansion. We and should take German
territory Germany. This
Even the suggestion that we should take the German
fraction OF SchlesWig- by
greater faction-from Germany bestOw upon
Denmark seems merest madness Denmark could not
keep it. and should sin against light
II is not by taking German provinces and German
people present that we shall prevent his
the attack. Napoleon found this
Of Prussia In a free world united Germany viii
be helpless minority enforce mperiastic arnbi-
tons IN free Europe the extent Of the states
which would be threatened and would fight would
the attempt. But II deprived Germany OF her
brethren neither time numbers would lead the
Gerna despair a Iozt prov
inces France has proved all this In the last half
fury.
For me the liberation OF Europe is the first and the
Necessary step toward league OF nations But
merely desirable step something else.
is achieved, n Europe unbound. this great human
fact justify years and
lead toward eventual revolution
national relations To add sixty millions the NUM-
Der OF n Europe IS 20 increase b.
just this much the potential barrier future imperial
istic ambitions OF race The development OF
Poland. Rumana and Jugo-savia half a century
automatically abolish those German ambitions
which terrible 70 US exactly the unIhcation
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