The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-08
Will Germany Win
The War After All?
by liarl Walter

London, May "A separate peace
Is growing In the mind of the British
public. not the public you read about
in political dispatches but the public
that likes to get its job done and enjoy
itself In normal human ways, 1t Is
getting just as tired OF the complex
ties of the political peace as II was OF
the thrills of war, IL is In sympathy
with the similar opinion which appears
TO be increasing in the United states
and takes the form of impatlence with
every effort President Wilson IL max
ing TO help put the world ON its 4 ct
again. People are getting fed up with
the wrangles Of diplomacy. They are
getting near to peace at any price ana
isolation begins TO look splendid again.
Let them fight II out among them
selves one hears said, meaning ltaly,
Serbia, Poland, France, Germany Rus
sa and the rest. Secret treaties are
anathema and the League Of Nations
camouflage. Actually this Is simply
peace WEAKNESS and il is in every way
as dangerous to those who give way 10
| 1t AS was the war wedriness which
nearly Overwhelmed France in 1917.
Germany has still a strong hand to
play. Travellers returning here from
Germany bring convincing evidence
that the real German government IL
watching with interest the peace wcari-
ness in England and America and that
the great German peace offensive mas
yet to come.
The Italian affair is mere incident
compared with the issues presently At
stake. Germany Will refuse 10 sign the
peace treaty in the hope of wearing
cut the patience of the American pcu-
pie first then the British. That is the
information which l get from oGre-
many. II that plan succeeds, Germany
will have won the peace and will doml-
nate Europe just as securely as dOmlu-
ion won by arms The penalty of war
wearines.s is defeat. The penalty of
peace-weariness is bolsh-yism. We shan
get ii here and wou will get it tomor
row and the only people in Europe
who will benefit by it will be the Ger. .
mans who will dominate Europe under
Il leader more powerful than Napoleon .
and a thousand times more terrible than .
Lenine and so the original plan for /
world domination will be merrily for .
ward
Against this German plan for boil
Shevi2ing and then Conquering the
world there is only one power, con
veniently defined as the Americanism
for which Wilson is standing in Paris.
Lloyd George has the humber role Of
reconciling 1t with other tendencies and
holding things together, He also knows
that an imperialistic peace would only
be playing Germanys game because
the British and American people are
fed up with the diplomatic subtleties
it would perpetuate. If Italy has her
way today she will have a revolution
tomorrow. England was in the. same
mood at the last elections and the revo.
luton is going on apace. The same
thing would happen in America if you
got Wall Street peace, with all the
foreign entanglemlnts that would in
volve, every time Wilson aems to
be giving way. This is the kind Of
peac- English people believe is threaten.
ing to take the place of the kind of
peace indicated by the IA points The
Italian affair was an incident but it
thrilled the English people because
1t showed that America was going to
stand up for her better principles.
All the depression and cynicism out
of Paris and London the last Few
weeks has been due to the suspicion
that America had thrown up the sponge
and that the rest Of the fight would be
a scramble between imperialism and
bolshevism. Today there is here
growing faith that both these mailed
fists OF Germany win be defeated by
democracy. The British and American
peoples can make the League of Ma
tions a real thing. If they give way
10 peace weariness the league will col.