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cape paying up to the last imag-
innhIe Limit. the cnsfa of the VIZ.


cape paying uD to the last imag-
Unable limit, the costs of the war.
II the people Of France. Italy anc
Britain were ready to criticise their
ministers for Quarreling with the
president, for letting him go home
before the peace terms were agreed
upon. they were quite as prepared to
turn their ministries out, II these min
istries surrendered to the president
in matters which the people held OF
supreme Importance and these mat
tiers were IN the main financial II
the Socialists. who IN France are not
particularly important, continued 10
denOunce Clemenceau, because ne held
out for the Saar and certain financial
terms, the whole Of the rest Of France,
politically speaking, criticised and de-
nounced the French prime minister
for yielding too much in the Saar and
elsewhere and press campaigns were
openly waged against him on this
ground.
Wreck, the president might have. in
all the difficult months, when Boil
shevism was marching westward and
internal misery and anarchy, grow
ing out OF the war. were supplying
fresh finder for Bolshevist fires But
more than this he could not do. His
liberal critics assert that he might
have drawn strength from the radicals
Of Europe, but they do not recognize,
slight ard that the men with whom
he was debating terms would be turned
out OF office II they conceded all OF
most Of what be was asking them TO
concede- It was always possible Tor
woodrow wilson 10 become the Boil
shevist leader in Europe; he had only
to break with Lloyd George and with
Clemenceau TO replace Lenine and
TrOtsky and unquestiOnably BolShev-
ism would have gained instead Of de-
ali ~ 1-a foil
Ministers Stand With Majority.
But the idea that Lloyd George,
Orlando or ClemenceEu could have
accepted Mr.. Wilson's leadership and
permitted him to settle the European
and Asiatic problems in accordance
with his own personal conceptions
rests upon the major fallacy that the
mass OF the people of the countries
these men represented we're them
selves prepared TO accept Mr.. Wilson's
ideas. Had this been the case all
would have been simple But as
Fiume. the question Of reparations.
the everlasting puzzle OF ireland. II
you please. well demonstrated. the
majority OF the people were not will
ing and their ministers. having 20
choose between losing the majority
or the minority. chose to stand with
the majority
71r. Wilson's gravest mistake, in my
judgment. lay in his original misap-
thought. he believed. that there wouid
be a peace of Cancellation. he believed
the mass Of the plain people Of tho
world were prepared to make any
sacrifice to. bring this about and he
believed that the Il points and TIE
everything. Not only did he believe
It. but he proclaimed the fact ana
many people who heard him also be-
lieved it. Then, when It became per-
fectly clear that Europe vas still
Europe and that no American solr-
ton. based largely on 4 mixture Of
sublime faith and appalling unfamil-
iarity with the underlying facts. could
or would be permitted 20 solve any
thing. he was attacked on all sides
by those who had accepted his crtg-
inal statements.
Some Bound to Feel WrongeI.
The idea that such complicated
questions as those presented by the