The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-06-13
Great Opportunities Neglected.


While the German armies wearing themselves down
to defeat in France in the insane attempt destroy the
French and British armies is incumbent upon the allies
to be using their wits in devisng means of expedtng
victory Within few weeks as the war is going, the
allies will have before them the duty Of assuming the
aggressive The German armies will have been out
epria chief hghwayman has led them into fatal trap;
the horrors of famoine and cold will assa the German
tion which will see that the plumber taken from small
PROSTATE nations cannot be retained the victim nations
will begin to revive hopes Of resuscitaon the oppressed
peoples of Austa-Hungary and Turkey will the pos
sibty of successful revolution and neutras that have
been inclined to back Germany will perceive that the Ger
mar military system is doomed?
What are the allied governments doing to promote
these movements? What the political policy of the al
lies?
So far as allied influence upon events is ascertainabe
there no political policy uniting the allied nations They
are carrying on nobly in military and naval affairs but
they seem to be neglectng the equally important field
Individual policies in many when they should have
amagamated their interests long ago in comprehen
sive political scheme.
There is abundant opportunity for the exercise of
tona political policies by each of the allies while at the
same time cooperating in general political policy
ward the enemy and toward neutrals. The large and
vital interests of the allies are Identical and they can
compressed into one word-surival Unch the survival
of each of the allied nations is made beyond the
power of any enemy to destroy it, the allies right
pursue individual policies working to the detrment Of
the Nor have they any right to strike out
independently for survival ITSELF if such action would be
injurious to another ally The allies cannot hope to fight
and defeat Germany sngy. They cannot expect Ger
many spare any that may be tempted pursue policy
contradictory to the best interests of ALL Germany,
stead of being graceful enemy for any act of
bearance courtesy would merely take advantage of it
to slaughter that nation sooner than otherwise
Russia must be helped Why do the allies hesitate?
They should alot small and tried detachmens Of troops
international force to be sent into Siberia to
as rallyng pont for all oval and Sensible Russians
If the boshevk attack this force let it kill off the boil
shevik The bolshevih not Russian people, but an
ulcerous similar to the l. W. W. of America
Austria must be dismembered. Why do not the allies
get busy? Are they afraid of Karl Hapsburg the occu-
pant of the bloody and usurpng throne? That throne
should have been knocked and ground to dust
res ago. 1t cannot stand against the hurricane that is
sweeping the earth free of tyrans usupers and nation
sayers Down with It'll 1t is reproach to the free ma
tons of the earth that they stand dumb while millions
of ibertylovng people trying to break the Hapsburg
bonds By fire and sword, by guile and arice by money
and bomb the free of the world should tear to pieces
the Hapsburg empire along with the Hohenzolern sys-
TEN that is trying to strangle the liberties of all men,
is does not end by the hating of the barbara
at the gates of Paris 1t ends only when there are
organized barbarians armed with the weapons of sci
ence. There is middle ground Free men have their
york cut out fer them they desire remain free They
have he power to destroy their woud-be destroyer Up
him. then! Not only by ancient methods SANCTION
ed by treates-treates more-but by methods of
determination should the free nations destroy the robber
nations Propaganda is destructive bombs yet the
free nations do not it. Political weapons are more
powerful than armies yet the allies do not hold po
tca conferences except as purely incidental and sub
ordinate aduncts OF military operations They leave to
Germany the immense field of political warfare where
deadly weapons of uncomfortable efficiency wholly at
Germanys command Let the allies look at what Ger
many has done in Russia absolutely without let or him
derance by any organized allied effort and then blush for
permitting the enemy to outw and outmsneuver them
Where the allied leader who will have the simple good
sense to propose immediate conference of the allies
with view of organizing united potcar action aginst
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