The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-02
GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Berlin advices state that Germany is willing to accept
the military and economic portions of the peace treaty if
she is admitted into equal membership of the league of
nations with reciprocal commercial rights from the be-
ginning The details and qualifications of this offer
not given but it is to be supposed that Germany would
expect the league of nations to take over the execution
of the treaty thus doing away with the allied reparaOns
commission and giving Germany herself share in the
decisions affecting the enforcement Of the treaty.
This proposed arrangement would be nothing less than
surrender to Germany. 1t is shining example of the
mixture of cunning and false reasoning habual to the
Huns They seize upon the league Of nations project
and succeed in making prima face argument in favor
of the admission of Germany; that is they assert that
Germany has shaken off autocracy, abandoned mitarsm
viduals who were responsible for the Therefore
Germany urges that she is entitled to membership in
league of nations formedof free governments having fol-
its purpose the maintenance of peace.
These statements are lies, and hence the allies will
make short work of Germanys proposal. Even if they
were true, however, the allies could not safely admit
Germany into the league The Huns would do all the
things required to qualify them for membership in the
league of nations if by doing they could hoodwink
the allies into creating such league and making Ger
many an equal member. Once this condition had been
reached, the Huns could then make mischief to theil
hearts content by betrayng their neghbors within the
league The free nations could notmake any with
out Germanys consent since Germany would of course
insist upon being of the permanent members of the
council Germany would have the secrets of all Other
nations and would have abundant material with which
betray them.
If there feature of the league of nations project
that cannot possibly work unjurousy to the principle
of freedom, it the exclusion of the Hun nation from
membership The free nations fastening upor
Germany the terms which she must accept later
1t is negotiation between equals but the imposition
of the vicors terms upon the vanqushed to compel Ger
many to do all in her power to repair the damage sh
has done. Therefore it is bad time to talk 'league
nations" and to propose general scheme of universe
peace based upon the eventual indissoluble joining to
gether of all the nations The allied peoples do not wan
any joining with the Huns, hereafter. They will
never trust the Germans again, never If a league O.
to admit the Germans there would be peremptory com
mand from allied peoples to quit such attempt
The free nations already league, and they arr
now putting into effect the only program which an!
league of nations could put into effect for the
peace that u.s. the Stacking of the peace disurber Ger
many is at the bottom of all the deviltry of this
including Russian bolshevism. The free nations ar
banded against Germany and trying to fasten peac
upon Germany that will make the world safe. The at
tempt to distract the nations from this plan and smp
duty by drawing them into universal perpetual expert
mental peace league plan scrambled hastily togethe
in Paris is extremely dangerous because it may bree
dissenson among the nations that must stick together
Germany is to be conquered. Germany's plea for ad
mission the league is best dealt with by abrupt
usal the proved ground of inherent Germany perfidy
That perfdy is not temporary, but permanent. TIT
league of nations would be up against German perfd
fifty years hence much There cannot be an!
league of nations which embraces allied peoples and Ger
mans. Hence if there should be experimental uni
versal league it would always have Germany and tn,
Germans to fight in one way anOther--W Washington
Post.
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