The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-24
EUROPE SEES
CHAMPION IN
WILSON,,
U. s. WRITER
Claims Attack Made on
League of Nations Has Serv-
ed to Strengthen President S
Prestige Abroad.
BOLSHEVISM IS FEARED
BY FRANK n. SIMONDS

Copyright, 1919. by The Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
PARIS. March 24.-Reports from
America are Of such fragmentary and
conflicting character that it is hardly
possible to form the smallest accurate
notion Of what is happening at home.
Yet all these reports indicate clearly
enough the total misapprehension OF
conditions as they exist in Paris and
the adoption by the Republican oppO-
sition in the United States of precise.
ly the tactics which have already
enabled Mr.. Wilson to resume COM
plete mastery of the progress of events
in France.
When the president set sail for
America little more than month ago,
he had on the whole suffered mate
rial diminution in prestige and popu-
larity in France and England. This
was due to the fact that it was uni
versally recognized that in pursuit of
his own objective, the League Of Ma
tions, he had materially postponed at
least the preliminary peace arrange
ment with Germany, and a correspond
ing reduction Of tension in Europe.
Yet a month later when Mr.. Wilson
returned to Europe he was able brus-
quely to upset all arrangements that
had been made in his absence to has
ten the preliminary settlement; he
was able to do this without encoun-
tering open opposition from the
French or British governments. whose
political existence was placed in jeop-
ardy by postponement.
Need U. s. Security
Why? For a simple reason. All
Allied Europe recognizes the essential,
o., hot y t, of g
1t will not be over until its conse-
quences have been liquidated in a safe
peace, well buttressed European sit
uation. All Allied Europe equally
clearly recognizes that only with
Americas continuing aid can safe
peace be obtained and preserved. M
Accordingly Americas aid being
priceless, no price is too great to pay.
The one essential thing is that Amer
lea should stay to finish the job. II
she doesn't we may have anarchy and
Bolshevism from Kamchatka to Lands
End.
Now. opposition to Mr.. Wilson in
America has seized upon precisely the
line of procedure which drives all
European governments into absolute
compliance with Mr.. Wilson's demand.
AS it reaches Europe, the Republican
policy is summed up in the demand
that America shall retire from Eu-
rope as promptly as possible to resume
her ancient policy of isolation.
Means Ruin for Europe
This spells approximate ruin for Eu-
rope exhausted by it's terrible years
of struggle. 1t removes the element
of hope which is enabling millions of
people to go back to the desert which
was once home and begin life over
again. In contrast to this Republican
policy, Mr.. Wilson announces his pol
Icy, which is that America, through
the medium of the League of Nations,
shall continue it's great task of help.
ing Europe, helping the world, to gee
on it's feet, to make good peace, 10
begin work with some promise tnat
there will be no new war.
AS have said, when Mr.. Wilson
left Europe, he was weaker than at
any moment since he arrived IN
France. But no sooner had the char
acter of the opposition to his poll
cies been appreciated here than there
was a sudden tremendous change in
feeling. Mr.. Wilson's Boston speech
conquered Allied Europe, because 1t
convinced it that Mr.. Wilson and his
party were fighting Europe's cause
in America, that only in the domes-
tic victory of Mr.. Wilson was the
salvation of Europe to be realized.
Accordingly, when Mr. Wilson
reached Paris again. his position had
been fortified, not weakened, by do
mestic political dissentions. He was
welcomed as the great American who
was fighting for Europe in America;
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