El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-19
EASTERN FOLKS
RAP At ALLIES
Resentful Attitude Is Ap-
parent Among All Glasses
On Eastern Seaboard.

seated the feeling Of injury is in many
Z American minds.
The allies were licked. scores Of
men said to me, when we came IN.
We poured 100000 soldiers over
there, we put every scrap Of food
and every dollar and every machine
we had into the war, and we turned
the scale and won it. We get nothing
out of our associates at the peace
conference, not even thanks British
and French public men vie with each
other in explaining how their herolc
troops won the war, but Of chateau
/ Thierry one never hears IN Lonuoh,
excepting accompanied by a sneer, and
in Paris the prime minister himselt
groups the American 100000, with
the Y NJ. C. A., the Red Cross and the
Salvation army in thanking the
United States for the Assistance rem
dered." Americans who have recent
" been in Europe for short time are
most bitter in their comments
Wants to BE Praised
This feeling is in great part due
to a misapprehension Of EurOpe'S view
concerning our entrance into the war.
The American thinks OF the nlled
States as entirely disassOciated from
the quarrels of the old world, hence
feels that Europeans should appre-
ciate the remarkable character of mis-
action in throwing himself into
European squabble in time to settle
the issue And when he reflects that
he came in for purely idealistic rea-
sons, en- is the more hurt that mis-
behavior is not the more appreciated
by those whom he benefited
TIE Frenehman or BritOn from
the first considered the war
against the Hun n struggle Of
human civilization against bar
barism, and every nation that
held out he regarded rs slavker.
When the mishffest fsSIaclzer na-
T ~ Cd In
London. ut last did come in, he
was enthusiastic At the desperate
moment. Bur, now, that IL Is all
over. he is inclined to go back to
his old resentment that we did not
come in sooner. shoulder n fair
share OF the sacrifice, shorten the
war by n year or two And so he
feels no inclination to shed tears
of gratitude on our shoulders.
Then there is a disposition, fed by
IL informed soldier gossip, to believe
that the American troops, once in the
field. were deliberately sacrificed TO
save the lives OF allied soldiers 1
nave heard men with great bitterness
tell how fresh French divisions. last
summer, were held safely in reserve
while half trained American dough-
boys were sent in to do the dfrttesI,
blOodiest work And a prominent
American who was in France during
the last phases told me how the Brit I
ish sent forward our two divisions |
in the north to storm the Hindenburg /
line and kept the more experienced |
Australian corps behind them to do /
the ''mopping up"
No Cause of Complaint.
Such comments as these would i
arouse amazement and hot anger in I
London or Paris. Your Briton or /
Frenchman would merely remark. /
One million three hundred thousand 4
Frenchmen killed in action, 800, 600 !
British, $4,000 thousand Americans
And I feel most strongly that here
tude" controversy, Americans are
wrong to criticise. quite apart from
the disapproportiOnate sacrifices ex-
acted from the nations before 1918.
purely military considerations re-
luired that the young. vigorous. en-
much work 10 do as possible in hot
corners. For we ought not to for
get that practically all the younger.
more husky Tommies and Poiius had
been killed or knocked out months
and years before the Argonne Of
10 troops in Europe in either side
made up OF such human material as
ours IN the last campaign.
To sum up eastern opinion as Z
'ound it:
The east believes that the treaty.
.ontaining the covenant. viii be rati-
But. for motives partly political and
iartly due to genuine misgivinEs the
asst holds that the senate viii render
lrticle 10 nonbinding on America
Without the specific consent Of con- ,
.ress TO our participation in war at I.
he time the contemplated aggres-
ion in Europe takes place. and that
he senate will also provide for the
withdrawal Of America from the