The Washington herald., 1919-06-01

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Spirit of Unrest in Many Places
We in America do not realize how
4 thoroughly American propaganda COW
cred the world in 1917 and 1918. The
American talent for organization
found a beautiful untouched field in
wireless propaganda when We entered
the war, and quietly and without any
advertising a bureau was organized
with offices in New York, from which
Americans sent daily wireless dis
patches all over the earth.
In these dispatches went President
Wilson's official uttcrances. They
went everywhere. His messages were
lprinted simultaneously In Tokyo. Pet
rograd. Hong Kong. Cape Town. San
Francisco. Washington. Valparaiso
land Sidney. Their objective was the
lGerman soldier and the German home
population. and as matter Of fact
tthese messages did hasten the wars
end. But Cairo and Titles and Bag
dad and Tibet and Sofia and Korea
got these messages in the meantime.
And the President evidently did not
realize how dangerous they were. For
when you preach freedom to people
ridden by despotism, and when you
cause YOU happen to be fighting the
particular despot who rules over these
! peo1fe-as for instance. Kaiser
lwilhelm-miIIions OF other people liv-
ling under what the Anglo-SaNon re-
| CARDS as highly moral government in
a most exemplary fashion. may loathe
the exemplary fashion and regard your
exponent of orderly government as A
ldespicable tyrant. And the man may
be your best friend. Which causes
embarrassment
| And that is what has happened all
over the world since February Of this
year The little peoples OF the world
children. perhaps. who hate. above
everything, having their civic ears
Misunderstanding read President VIII
sons brave words about freedom. took
him seriously. And so we have riots
and revolutions and bloodshed; more
over. We have one small brave city in
Tripoli declaring fits independence in
the sacred name of Wilson. All of
which shows that this indiscrim nate
randerinE 70 the base passions Of free
dom is liable TO cause serious trouble
in the world
It may be worth while 10 consider
the seat Of some Of this trouble First
of all England has troUhle-trouble
in India. trouble in Egypt. trouble IN
ireland. During the early spring there
was trouble north of Bombay: the In
dians there having fought with Eng
land in the war felt that as reward
for their fidelity they should have
larger measure Of liberty. The In
dams rose There was a parade Of
mobile troops, some tanks in columns,
an aeroplane or so. a few shots fired
and that problem in self-determina-
tion was over. In early May the A.
Chans came charging down toward
Bombay and more troops were needed
Egypt began her uprising in February
Egyra was a part Of the Turkish En-
rire IN 1914 hut declared war on Tur-
KEY to help England. The leaders OF
the EEyptian movement claim that
they were assured that II they would
( help England whip Germany by de-
ClarinC their independence of Turkey
and furnishing laborers to take the
place of British soldiers who could
thus go TO the front. Egypt should
have her independence. There are. of
course, two sides to this promise, but
the Egyptians understand it that way.
They furnished hundreds OF thousands
OF laborers. Then they asked for dele
gates TO the Peace Conference; their
petitions asking for delegates were
confiscated, and their delegates sent
20 Malta for a time. hut later released.
But in the meant me there were riots
the students beginning the trouble.
Later British sources OF information
claimed that the root of the contin-
ued Egyptian disturbances was re-
licious strife But finally in late May
n delegation appeared at Paris-with
|, proper British passports ii must be
/ said-whiCh contained Jews. Chris
tians and Moslems This dele
! CATION came after America had recoC-
nized Great Britain's protectorate
over Egypt. But the delegation kept
up a rather busy propaganda and
made n favorabl. impression upon
American and French newspaper
men. The world of diplomacy could
hav. nothing to do with the Egyp-
tians. But nevertheless they are
making n real fight. hut probably
without much hope. Yet they are
, nevertheless tossing about the world
, the dynamite which President Wilson
handed to them. And they are bat
? ting the dynamite about with perhsp rs
, more courage than judgment.
= The Claims Of Korea.
Over in the Latin quarter i'm Parrs
from the early part OF JanuaIN iNeu
, n queer little shrimp Of a yellow man
named Kim. He lived on the fifth
: floor Of "A shabby little tenement. He
!, !, had no heralds or outsiders and he
was having a lonesome time. Every
once in a while he would get out a
little manifesto. and from time to
time tried to get the hearing of some
T one in the Peace Conference. But he
never got up the front step OF the
French foreign office. Yet he was
representing the Korean millions who
, had read President Wilson's note.
: who read his four principles follow
ing the fourteen points. And when in
February. 1918. the President ad-
dressed the American Congress with
T his four principles and declared that
peoples and provinces are not to be
bartered about from sovereignty TO
sovereignty in the great game or
balance OF power" and said also that
well defined national aspirations
should be accorded the utmost salts
faction" Korea in a bland Oriental
way thought-here is our chance. So
the Koreans passed the hat-secured
Ave deleQates-three of whom We're in