The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-07

Behind all else, too, Germany hopes
for the day when Russia, achieving
new unity, will again join with Ger
many in an Ani-Polish policy, prom
Using new partitions and restoration
Of the old situation on her eastern
marches.
AS to financial consideration, no one
can mistake German purpose. She
has already found an audience among
the elements In allied nations. which
in their eagerness for a peace of con-
Citation, are ready to make any sac
rifice to German demands. Her claim
that the financial burdens imposed
upon her are unjust, will be urged
with ney eloquence in the succeeding
months and years, in America and In
England. Germany hopes to obtain
support for the reduction of these f.
nancial obligations.
This hope is the more strongly held
because the United States is not at
all interested directly in German pay
ments, Great Britain only slightly; 1t
Is France, together with Belgium,
which must have German reparations
o.remain solvent. But will the Allies
Of France support her claims, even
to the extent of new military opera
tions, without benefit, and bound to
impose new expenses upon them
~n'ves? Germany means to try 1t out.
But without these financial repara-
tions France Is well nigh ruined and
If the United States and Great Britain
do not support France, then there Is
! IN immediate breach in the alliance,
which only while 1t Is an alliance can
maintain the document of Versailles
in full force.
If France does not obtain repara-
| ton, if she Is not Unidentified for the
| wanton destruction Of her industrial
districts, nothing seems more certain
than that the suffering which will fol-
low in France will lead to national
bankruptcy and not improbably revo-
luton But this would mean the re-
moval Of the single force which can
compel German compliance, 1t would
| leave France defenseless before a
| new German attack and it would en-
able Germany, in the end, not merely
to reoccupy her old territories, but to
win the war itself, to deal with
France, as Bernhard advised, 81 that
France would never be able to cross
| her pathway again.
! All this is possible for Germany, II
only she can create in the United
| States and in Great Britain a senti
ment against the French, and such a
sentiment has been, at least started
already She hopes, quite justly, tc
be able to mobilize the so-called l1beT
ais, who have already protested
against the peace terms, to create q
sentiment in favor Of a modification
of the financial terms in these coun
tries an dthen to profit directly by the
saving in money and indirectly 10y the
ruin of France.
Determined to Split Allies
But it is not merely to separate
France from her two Anglo-Saxon as
sociates that Germany plans, she i:
quite as determined to separate The
United States not merely from Franc.
but from Britain. Already 1t Is no
difficult to perceive in this country {
considerable and growing anti-Brltisl
campaign. Much Of this is accidental
more of it due to the eternal lrlsl
wrangle, but all of it SO much grlst Il
the German mill, if the United State
can be persuaded to separate hersel
now from the closest and most con
cerned interest in her recent asso
ciates in the rebuilding of France, Il
the restoration of British credit, if
real break between Britain an
America can be fostered, half the Gel
man battle will be won, half Of wha
> was lost in the war recovered.
The truth, and Europe perceives ]
clearly and in America there is, as We