The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-18
PEAcE TALK. ar ma PEAcE.


all their differences and acted as unit in war The dam
ger acted the hoops abound barrel pressing around
the allies and holding them so cOmpacty that there was no
thought Of dissensOn among Them but only thought of
common sacrifice for the sake Of throwing off the COM
mon danger
Now, when the threat Of annhiation is removed the
compuson upon the allies act in common seems to have
disappeared There is now appearing disposition to
press press forward national interests whether antago
nstic to other national interests or not Senterest in
stead of sepreservaon has become the controlling rule
Of action The allied and associated nations are not re-
veang all the selfish purposes they have in mind but
enough has been revealed to make certain that the
peace conference contains the germs of bitter quarres
and perhaps wars.
It is difficult feat intellectually to make peace
than to make victory. In making war the objective was
visible and all parties could unite shifting the enemy
In making the objective is invisible and each Of
the parties ANXIOUS to take something from the
which the other parties not willing to concede In
the single matter Of indemnes there is not the slightest
doubt that each of the allies will be disappointed at the
GOODNESS with which its claims against the enemy
sdered by the other allies Probably there will be a
scaling down of al claims the only practicable method
of achieving results.
If Germany and the three other enemy nations were
merely defeated and awaiting the pleasure of the victor
to the terms to be imposed the situation would be diff
fcult enough account Of the extremely complex and
conflicting interests of the alies large and small But the
a.
breakdown of all government in the German empire the
Austro Hungarian empire and Turkey and also because
of conditions in Russia The allies gather at Paris and to
their stupefaction they find that there govern
ments with which to make peace The interaied negoti
atons about to begin for the purpose of asceranng
just what the combined world will dictate to the worlds
enemy, subject to indefinite posponemen because
the subject matter is undergoing the changes incident
and revolution How can the boundaries of Russia
be agreed upon if there is Russia? How ndem
nifty be collected from the German when there
is no German government? Why generously hand Dan
zig over to Poland, only to the Germans make to
set this arrangement aside there peace
ference in Paris?
The newspaper reports from Paris indicate that the par
amount question that gates the representatives Of civil
ization whether they shae deliberate secretly or pub
ish their proceedings 1t important question truly
but important question is whether the allied gov
ernments of the world have abandoned the idea Of
quering and Stacking the foes of liberty If they have
not if they still determined to make mankind both
safe and Free they would do we'll to carry forward this
until is finished before they try to discuss peace
that has not arrived
The allied nations including the United States are try
ing to sdestep their plan and unacceptable duty Russia
They hoping that Providence blind chance will
cause the against civilization TO elbow over" In
stead of armng themselves and going to war; as they did
against the German peril they shyshally and postpone
the fight against the bolshevik evil And they hold
peace conference in Paris and begin to unfold the differ
ences that divide Them just though peace would de-
scend upon earth the moment long piece of paper is
signed by the respective plenipotentiaries.
There be peace in Paris while their is war and
he'll in Petrograd, Moscow, Berlin Bremen Hamburg,
Stuttgart, Warsaw Posen, wilma, Riga Lemberg Prem
ysl, Krakow, Vienna, Odessa Budapest Barmen Stetn
Kovno, Keif, Ekaternodar, Cheabnsk Archangel Bat
Samar Krasnoyarsk and dozens of other cities and
communities infested with bolshevik through Russia
Germany, Austria Hungary, Bulgarian and Turkey.
The greatest scrap of paper in the history of the world
would be treaty of peace signed in Paris when there
was peace.--Washington Post.