The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-30
A FRENCH INSULT

OuI Will HIS eUeU1IeS by accomplish
ing as nearly as possible a peace which
will preserve peace in the future and
at the same time will guarantee the
Independence OF the smaller against
tho overshadowing larger nation. He
might have quit long ago and just as
reasonably sought the less strenuous
ways of his own office at home
He is too large man for that. He
Is steadily working in Paris now with
the stronger hope of accomplishing
Lis aims,-and he will in the main.
# he does, the world may well re-
jCice for something will have been
done with national jealOusies and
secret agreements which must keep
men devouring each other in wars.
We will have done with war if Pre-
aident Wilson reaches his aim. 1t is
indeed Il mission worth great mans
rime and thought.
But a lcte very better attack comes
in very few words from Marcel
llutin, newspaper critic who writes
for Echo de Paris. This is leading
French newspaper Marcel IIutn IL
one Of the Simond type only
4 wiser critic. He says President
Wilson has note from the Russian
soviet government asking that the
soviet rule be recognized by the
United States. If he had gone thus
far and quit, there would have been
nothing to charge against him. On
the other hand he could give no as.
Surances that Wilson would not move
TO recognize Lenine's government,
and said So
This was an insult which might
be noted and considered by the pre-
sident but for the fact that Marcel
Hutin is propagandist capable of
operating in the interest of the
enemies of the president Many of
them have followed the president to
France and it need be no surprise to
find them influencing the newspaper
critics of Paris.
What makes US feel quite happy re-
garding Wilson's great opportunities
is the fact that none of these paid
9ropagandists are able tos upset the
really great statesmen at the coun-
ellis Marcel Hutin, Simonds, nor any
other man with split name in the
middle can touch Clemenceau or
Lloyd.George or Orlando. These
critics have very solemly imagined
hey should be permitted to write it
out for these greater statesmen, but
the great statesmen continue to go
ahead with things as they desire, not
having appeared to know such men
rs Hutin are there.
When Marcel Hutin says that he
can say that President Wilson Is not
lisinclined to give the request his
favorable consideration" in a refer
'nce TO Lenine and Trotsky's effort
to secure recognition in the United.
when he says all this during the
same day that Lenine and Trotsky
are announced 'as aiding war and
strife in Hungary against the allies,
he knows he is not speaking the
truth about President Wilson.
Wilson nor any other of the
statesmen will recognize red rule
like the BOlsheviki are offering in
Russia, and we are quite sure that
Lenine and Trotsky cannot hope to
mold friendship with the United
States at the same time they are do
ing all they can to master the world
with their rule OF disaster for free
people. We have that charged against
the Russian leaders so clearly that
they cannot be considered. Wilson
has it the same way and it will not
pay the critics like SimOnds and
Iutin to keep ON saying mean things.
The critics will be the only crowd
that looks small when it is over.