The spectator., 1919-05-02
Under the Wings
 Of Ms Vulture
1y C. v. MORRISON.

the smblsn sf the old Germany
 The emblem vas wrong. I, should have been the vuiturs, dsp4ctej upon the srmoriL shields of the I'm, perial German Empire. For all over the world wherever wings could cas-, . shadow, 0ssmaAy vss playing the DAst of the vul turA
 Ihis black sAAADW 0 the Hun v,I tare had rested over France tor 40 ysars. France knSW \ but the rest of sAs world vas iadiH srsnt The vulturs had. been aoross the vossee mountains once and hs planned tc % again e he had in feSO
 And in 1914 and fs1 many . weary month thereafter t waS resting over the whole world America stood 3ust as much tn the shadow of the vul ture of Prussianism e did the rest of th1 earth But we wouldn't believe f then. Our professional pacidsts wouldn't bst us understand fhsy filled our ears with soft phrases.
 Every day the menace came little nearer a, the shadow of the vulture's wings grew darker We finally awok@ but when ve dh 1t Wus too late. Ws came in at the eisvsatA hour We have known that sancs tho spring, l4ls. An other month os 70 sf patience would have made ss reach As ssttlsssid tss late
 Had Germany won tAs varl What diffsrsot America this would bs In stead of raising 6 handful of billions in Victory LoAa VI would be strain. ing our hearts ost to and a40. .ooo, ,oe0,. oOe l. this sosnszy vtth which to pay our ransom te ths Dsndits q rss World.
 We would have ben ths sheen fer the HHn sheastng Ns other nation had the resources left that ws had to gladden. the heart et the Hun. Ws would havs bosns tAo Mons shArs et the ransom thet 0semaAy was ready to levy OF the world.
 "HE United otakss q America
 alone had the moasy to pay and
 the Huns ef HunlAnd knew it. With that TsutonSe thosoushnsss that vs used to hear praised 90 often and hstsa to 30 innossntly bsfses the days of the war. the Nun haA estimated jus, about whst hs sesh ~ out of us. Nc expected to lsavs Ne just about what As AAd fslt te Belgium a1d to Serbia and to Ros@aaia and that was -notAiAg.
 Ass sxtortioas vouD1 have taken from us far moes thaa VI have spent In all oar war 'DesVarations More than vs would have spent had the war gons on another ysas. For the 3%O, eoo.c0o. 900 indemnity VI by 10 means all that the Hun vultvrss expected to carry book with them when they sst tAstr black wiASs fsr the evil nest in Hunland.
 Thsrs wses other sutertiens in mind The Hun knew that his fAstorie. need d raw materials. Wat better places to got them than iA American fields. mines, forests and warehouses? The Yankse Swine" would have httls to say about the nastsr The Hun would do the saying.
 German factories vsss waiting for the raw materials tAAt wsrs b be eoessd out of America. FActories set uD and equipped with machinery stolen from Belgium end loeAed from France were to work up tAe raw materials that wsrs to be gstAsrsd h America, Ersishtsd across the Atlantic and laid down at the dochs c Hamburg. The ships of America and France and Hns. lsnd. ssoh a vsrs lelt from the D. boat war would have bssn ret to the task of carrying. . ERMANY wanted to ret hsr old | Y world trade baek end that wss
 one of the metho1s sho had h mind. The world would have taken he goods at the De1oG ee . German baDeAsl