The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-05
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EUROPE REALIZE
WORTH Of LEAGUE
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spokesman for the American people
with their complete approval in all for.
eign matters
When President Wilson decided to
come to Europe all the allied nations
had in their turn to decide whether or
not the president should be received
as an ambassador Of all America. They
decided TO accept him as such. They
nave listened TO every word that he
has spoken In matters of policy with
exactly that attention, that c%onsidera-
ton, which flows from an unqualified
acceptance OF Mr.. Wilson in such a
role.
AL Look to U. S.
Now it is essential to recognize what
the position Of America in Europe Is
today. American aid on the military |
side is realized everywhere to have
been the decisive factor in winning the
war; American contributions to the
feeding of millions or people in Bel
GUM, in Northern France, in Eastern
and southern Europe, has meant the
Inference between starvation and en-
i%stence. There are literally millions
alive in Europe who owe their exist
ence wholly TO America. For the future
the little people of the large countries !
and the people large and small of the
little countries all turn their eyes to-
ward America as the one solid element
Of hope in a world otherwise somber
and despairing. Admiration, gratitude, |
hope-all three emotions flow from
American service in Europe and Presi-
dent Wilson'S welcome TO Europe was
a natural and spontaneous expression
on the part of millions of people Of
their feelings toward the country that
had saved them IN the past and t0l
whom they turn now for future de-
liveIanCe.
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as president Of the United States and,
as such, the representative Of his
country in Paris, and President Will
son, leader of a political party at home,
was a thing totally beyond the capacity
Of the European peoples. To them Mr..
Wilson and the United States mean
the same thing and | can not de-
quately describe the degree of appre-
h%ension and dismay which recent To-
littCal events In the United States have
occasioned. And this dismay arises
primarily out of a feeling that America
as a whole may desert Europe, may
leave millions 1t has temporarily saved
to permanent misery. The attack upon
President Wilson's league of nations
formula seems to these peoples in Eu-
rope an attack upon all that America
means to them, and this is bound to
be so.
For the American in Europe, the
attitude and sentiment expressed by
the common peoples Of all the allied
nations is IA thing which at once awak-
ems pride and humility, 1t is not the
f~lattery Of politicians. n Is not even the
praise Of public men which impresses
it is rather the simple, unlimited faith
Of the masses Of the people. on two
evenings last week | attended dinners,
one in honor of Venlzelos, the great
Greek statesman, and the other pre-
sided over by Take lonesou, the man
who brought Rumania into the war on
the allied side, Both made speeches
and each, In a manner which was i'm
pressive, explained what to his own
little people the league of nations
meant. with America as a force in
that league, a force for that justice
and that right of which, for their coun-
tries, America was the living embodi-
meut.