Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-13
CRISIS IN WORLD
AFFAIRS HAS BEEN
REACHED; &c RMAN
PEOPLE HELPLESS
Secretary Of State Says Enc
mics Must Be Fed or Boil
SheviSm viii Succeed There
as in Russia,
FOOD AND PEACE ARE
NECESSARY AT ONCE
Should Starvation and Idle
ness Continue Worse Horror
Than AutoCraCy viii Menace
Humanity,

10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREl
Paris, (Tuesday) March live
have reached a crisis in the affairs Of
the world" said Secretary of State
Robert Lansing at banquet given
tonight by the inter-allied press club
in honor of the American peace COM
missoners. Mr.. Lansing was en-
phatic in his statement that the allies
must feed Germany and give the Ger
mans opportunity to sell their pro-
ducts in the foreign markets, if the
danger of Bolshevism was to be
avoided. Mr.. Lansing said
'In the infancy of our republic
across the seas the sympathy ana aid
of France gave the support which
was needed to make individual liber-
ty the supreme ruler of the destinioS
of the new born nation. From that
time forward liberty has been, and
| still is, the most sacred and mos$
compelling impulse in political life in
/ America.
1T was when the people of the
United States came to a full realiza e
| ton that the liberty for which they
had fought was in danger that the
nation with unsurpassed unanimity
took up the sword with firm de-
! termination to do its part in freeing
| liberty and the world from democra-
cy.
Won Mighty Victory.
"a mighty victory has been won.
The imperial armies of the central
powers have ceased to threaten. They
no longer exist. Scattered and broken
they have returned to their homes,
where hunger and privation avail
| them-hunger and privation when
/ are the consequences of their own
blind faith in evil men who led ,nem
4 into this unrighteots war
II Germany has suffered bitterly, Is
suffering bitterly, and Germany Is
/ entitled to suffer for what she has
! done. Today starvation and want
I are the portions of the German peo-
4 ple. Violence and murder stalk
through the streets of their grea'
cities. Political institutions, indus
trial enterprise and the very struc'
! ture of society are, tottering. 1T Is
? the lust retribution of their crimes
/, 1--WE NAV be disposed to pity those
: innocent among the Germans but oul
pity is almost dried up when we con
/ slider what France and other nation
[ have had to suffer from the lnVaulhs
: armies of the Teutons'
Frances Woes JHSptakdDic.
"France has endured unspeakabi'
I woes with a fortitude and determine
{ ton which excite the admiration an,
wonder of the world. cannot pc
words to express the praise | woul'
. giva tn the French armies and thet
> Egreat generals, to the French peopi
and their great leaders who liVe'
> through those black days of horror
when stoutest hearts might well nav
despaired. e,;o
"And, now that the great confllc
ia ended and the mighty war engin
Of Prussia is crushed, we nave neN
=, problems to solve, new dangers
! overcome. East of the Rhine ther
are famine and idleness want an
misery. Political chaos and outlaWr
! have supplanted the highly organize
government of imperial Germany
Social order is breaking down unue
the difficulties of defeat ana ~
t hopefuIness of the future. Like III
: anarchy which made an inferno
e Russia, the fires of terrorism ai
n abaze in the states OF 1eriiiahs
. Over the ruins of this one grea
emnire the flames are sweeping ives,
ward IT is no time to allow sent
o ments of vengeance and hatred
6 stand in the way of checking III
q conf1agration which will soon De
a the German borders and threatehi,,l
other lands We must chahse u
conditions on which social unre,
feeds. and strive to restore Herllan
TO a normal. though it be a WeaKe1 ~
social order, Two words tell .,
storv--food and peace. 10 mar
Cermanv capable of resisting ana
chy and the hideous despotism oi :,
..SS tarror Germany must be r.
st t by a treaty of peace. 1t is n
; ont ont of pity for the German peop,
: H that this must be done and done WI y
ont ont delay, but because we, the vic sto
IN This war. will be the cher sure
ers If it is not done