The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-12-06
IS WAR AT END?

'to'"AA' house of representatives Thursday declar- ing g>War with Germany is at an end he was not performing a request made on him by his constituents but carrying out a request of one Senator Lodge, in all probability. The resolution does not come as a result of a demand from any considerable body of Americans, but rather from pressure from a group of politicians.
 To say the least of it, it is extremely ill-timed to the allied cause, which is like wise the cause of the United States, not Withstanding the contrary attitude of cer- tain prominent republican senators. On the other hand 1t could not have been timed better to suit the ends of Germany had Tinkham and his political superiors been in actual communication with Berlin and working in conjunction with the German leaders, which Is of course out of the ques- ton. But the coincidence of the Tinkham resolution declaring the war at an end and the German announcement that the Ger man government will not even reply to the note of the supreme council of the allies relative to the Germans making good the violations of the armiStice terms is re- markabe And close on the heels of both of these developments in the peace situa- tion comes the Paris announcement of yes terday saying that Generaissimo Foch has attended a secret session of the council and will proceed to use coercion on Germany to force compliance with the armistice terms. There IS no question but what the American army of occupation in Germany will be included in any coercive movement against the Huns. It has duty to per form in connection with the armistice equal to any devolving on the other allied forces and there is no true American who would have 1t otherwise.
 One reading the purport of the link ham resolution and having a knowledge of the situation that has developed between Berlin and Versailles would not be foolish if he assumed that it was an open effort to align the United States with Germany in its opposition to the allied demands. It says in effect that whatever happens now, whatever defiance the German government may offer however far 1t may go in viO- ation of the armistice terms, the war as far as the United States is concerned is fin ished If Marshal Foch orders the Ameri- can forces encamped on the Rhine to cross that stream and advance into Germany, as he has proper authority to do, and as seems to be indicated he may do from yesterdays despatches the Tinkham resolution will make good reading for those American boys as they proceed to do their duty If the American commanders of the army of occupation should proceed along the lines laid down by Mir. Tinkham they will refuse to obey orders to help enforce the terms of the armistice Should they adopt such a course they would brand themselves and their country as quitters of the most con- temptible kind. Yet between such a course and the one set forth by the Tinkham reso- lution there is but little difference.
 Not only in technical sense but in actuality the war is not ended The fact that the big armies have been demobilized does not entail such state of relations be- tween the warning nations On November II, 1918, truce was set up under terms which were prelude to a peace arrange ment. The Germans in signing the arm istice solemnly promised to carry out cer- tain terms prior to the establishment of peace. Peace, in fact, was specifically stat ed to be contingent on Germany's fulfill ment of those terms. Such fulflllment