Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-13
TWO WAYS OF DEFEATING
GERMAN IMPERIAL AMBITIONS
An Englishman Wants the Central European
Plan Smashed, and an American Proposes to
Weaken 1t by League of Atlantic Powers

possible from the commerce Of the
world, az well as to exclude II from
all international councils until it has
given evidence Of its purpose TO re.
spect treaties"
II admit that | should like to see
Germany boycotted for a hundred
years" said owen
THAT is the way we all feel at
times ! admitted. such boycott as
there will be- however. will come
about spontaneously without any or.
ganization. But ! do not want to con
template any such outcome Of the war
as Professor Usher seems to foresee
He is too ready to admit that Pan.
Germany is 10 he permanent What
pleases me better is the point Of view
Of Macfall. He does not write AS a
philosophical historian, but as a
Briton, stirred to the depths by the
possibility OF the triumph Of German
nfamy. His book is propaga nda Of
the hottest kind. I am not surprised
that it stirred the lInglishmen. They
have been slow 10 sec what Germany
is fighting for We have been slower.
Some OF us do not realize it now.
Such OF US ought to read Macfall that
they might have their eyes opened
Field Marshal Viscount French hit
the nail on the head when he said
in his introduction that no man of
any common sense should remain ig.
norant of the fact that if Middle
Europe comes out of the peace Ger.
man empire the war will have hecn
fought in vain"
That is pretty hard on Usher"
remarked Owen.
TT is severe, il YOU take Niscount
French's point OF view" admitted.
But Usher does not lie thinks that
the creation OF league OF Atlantic
Powers is OF so much greater impor-
tance than the establishment Of Pan
Germany that he discounts all that
may he said to the contrary. But. as
have already said, do not agree
with him, Macfalrs maps. showing
what German peace would mean and
more nearly 10 the truth. Look at
them here on pages 272 and 273. The
German victory map shows d black
empire stretching beyond the T3os.
porus TO Persia, isolating France.
Great Britain, Spain. Italy and the
scandinavian States completely from
eastern Europe and Asia. and putting
in control OF Germany the land routes
TO India and China. The other man.
which Macfall says shows just the
place for Germany in Europe, has the
black German area shrunken until II
includes only the old German Empire
and Austria. A group of independent
States extends from its southeastern
boundary TO the Sea OF Marmora. They
are Bohemia, Hungary, Rumania,
Greater Siberia and Bulgaria. new
State OF Poland is set UP as a buffer
between Russia and Germany. Such
a map when the war ends, or after
the peace treaties are signed would
mean the defeat OF Germany"
There is no doubt OF that" Doctor
McFabre said.
The great value Of Macfalps book
is that it is directed to the average
man. what he calls the Man in the
Street, There is nothing abstruss in
It, II is written in vigorous. direct
and colloquial English, rising some.
times TO great eloquence. And il ac-
complishes its purpose of hsmmerinE
home the truth about German am
bitions. II ought to be in the hands
Of every person who has any in
nuence over public opinion. 1t is one
Of the greatest war tracts that have
yet appeared. Ushers book ought to
be read by those who want 10 speeu-
late about distant eventualities. but
Macfall should be read BY every
one" GEORGE w. DOIICT.As
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