The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-13
DIR. BUTLER WARNS
OF NEW PROPAGANDA
Says Enemy Seeks to Divide
Allies by Series of Insid-
iOus Fiction.

DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler. president
of Columbia University, sounded n warn
ing last night that "insidious enemy
propaganda is not ended. despite the
signing of the armistice," when he spoke
at a meeting of the Franco American
Society at the Plaza Hotel. Marcel
knecht of the French High Commission
also spoke and paid " strong tribute to
what he termed the wonderful spirit of
the people of Alsace and Lorraine dur
ing tho war and since the signing of the.
armistice.
There are not wanting" DR.. Butler
said, signs that the insdious propa-
ganda is not ended despite the arms
tlce. wheperings are heard and often
repeated by those whose irresponsible
ignorance Is the next friend of malice,
that the free peoples and their Govern
ments are at odds with themselves and
with each other. and that despite profess
sions of high purposes there are those
who cling insistently to selfish policies
Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT and mperialist'c am
hilton that belle the principles on which
the war was fought to victory.
at cannot be too often or too emphat-
ically said that there is absolutely no
ground for these suspicious or whisper
of the troublemakers at a time when
men are earnestly taking counsel to-
gether how best TO to put this sort OF
trouble behind them forever.
Government speaks for Peoples.
THE Government of Great Britain
| speaks for the people Of Great Britain
with an authority and a mandate that
have just now been confirmed by the
| prit iQh In In, ct, fa oh
| ion. NJ Clemenceau and his fellow Min
listers just now have appealed TO the
Chamber OF Deputies for support, and
have received IL by all overwhelming
| majority. These are the Governments
and these are the peoples who have
borne for four long years the brunt of
the war and its sufferings. and it is to
them that the world looks for construc-
tive leadership in the fashioning OF per-
| manent' peace. which cause America is
| only too eager TO serve with undivided
! loyalty There is no difference between
these peoples and their Governments;
they stand together as a unit in the sup
! port of great and far reaching public
/ policies of progress
The trouble makers insinuate that
! France wishes to annex Asia Minor.
| France wishes nothing Of the sort and
could not be induced to annex Asia
Minor. The Syrian Christians. who oc-
/ cupy a portion of Asia Minor in the
exercise Of their own right OF self-do-
! termination, are asking that the pro-
lection of France be given to an
autonomous government of their own.
II the rev society OF nations should
heed this position and assign TO. France
the honor and the responsibility of az
| tordng protection and guidance to an
autonomous Syria while on its way to a
| future independence. who could have
anything but praise for so far sighted Il
policy?
France Is Misrcprcscntcd.
THE trouble makers insinuate again
that France, not satisfied with the re-
turn of Alsace Lorraine, is asking for
the annexation of all German territory
on the left bank OF the Rhine. France
is asking for nothing Of the sort and
could not be induced to ATTEMPT to
extend its sovereignty over tho Ger
! man populations in that area France
is far too wise TO set up in Europe
another AlsaCe- Lorraine question.
hut, on tho other hand. France has
no intention, after its forty-four wears
" living under threats and its four years
of living m agonizcd torment Of permit.
+. ting the territory on the left bank Of the
Rhine. to bc made the recruiting and
! The storehouse for another attempt al It's
subjugation and the destruction of ITS
national life. France will demand and
properly demand. with. | trust, the full
support Of tho United States, that the
territory on the left bank OF the Rhine,
! while remaining German, be by nterua
tionsl agreement sterilized 50 far as
preparation for future wars is con-
cerned."
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