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the ships that protect the shores OF
England? Lying dismantled in Scapa
Flow. surrendered without firing n
shot
What about the competition Of Ger
man merchants that threatened not
only the markets but the economic
life OF Britain? BY the terms of the
I Treaty of Versailles, il is DESTROYED
for just as long as the allied powers
desire. Germany has no ships and
for years must build for her enemies
she is helpless against whatever eco
nomic restrictions may be placed up
on her. and must not retaliate; she
must give up much of her coal and
most OF her iron: last and most i'm
portant. she cannot import the raw
material that she needs to set her
industries going for her own benefit,
because her available economic re-
sources are mortgaRed thirty years
ahead to pay indemnities Germany
cannot pay America or other countries
for raw materials in gold or goods:
France and Belgium are waiting and
watching to see that they get their
world market again and makes pay
ments in the ordinary commercial
way to other lands.
L. s. and Japan Only Rivals.
England remains supreme Mt sea
as she has not been since the French
navy began to revive in the decades
: following Trafalgar. while she has
7 disposed OF her chief economic COM
petltor in the world markets and has
to deal now with two only, the United
States and Japan.
But il was not Germany alone
that threatened the peace of mind
OF Englishmen. in the DAYS before
( the war. Russia was constant
threat to India. Several times Brit
ain threatened war rather than let
Russia have the StraiEhts. or gain
some advantage in Persia or on the
Indian frontier. Many times carly
In the war ! heard il said in LON
don, with gloomy head shakings
that the defeat of Germany nv the
Allies would SO agErandizc Russia
that a war between Russia and
England would be only a matter of
few years.
Now Russian menace as well as
the German has been removed in
one war. a piece of luck no English
man dared hope for. All Russian
influence in Asia Minor, throughout
Turkey. has vanished. The elabo-
rate and delicate negotiations by
which Russia and England staked
out with deep mutual jealousy their
respective spheres of influence in
Persia have collapsed: throughout
all this region England has only to
take what she will. Mesopotamia.
the Hedjaz kingdom under British
protection. and forever German pro-
jects OF attacking England over
land as internal collapse has re-
moved Russia as an enemy.
Eastern Empire Secure.
So at the same time that her
naval and commercial rival in the
West has been destroyed Britain
finds her Eastern Empire for the
first time since its conquest en-
tirely secure. In Africa, too. Ger
man Colonial enterprise alarmed
Downing street. Germany has been
hoofed out OF. the Dark Continent:
British Africa has been consolidated,
rendered impregnable.
Looking about the world, how
does the position seem to a British
Foreign Secretary reared in tradi-
tions of the old school who does
not believe with our President that
the hearts of men are very different
from what they were Ave years
ago?
All His Dreams Come True.
He sees from his window in the
foreign office tower in the Horse
guards every economic and terrific
rial aim, both positive and negative,
that his predecessors have worked for
during the past two centuries. at
tanned He sees no possible enemy
on the horizon who may take away
what has been won during the Great
War. France. the one great power
on the Continent, has in the British
view bitten off at least as much as
she can chew already. From her
there can be no menace. Overseas
there are America and Japan. Not
only ties of friendship but mutual in
terest bind both these lands to Eng
land, the foreign secretary reflects.
Japan is a great country with vast
possibilities, but 1t Is her weakness
that she is an island power. and SO
she must keep on good terms with
The ruler of the sea. Her own weak
ness in mineral wealth makes II i'm
possible. moreover. that she should
ever seek to outbuild Britain.
As for America, there indeed is a
potential rival that must be constant
ly consulted and conciiiated and kept
in good humor but after all she Is con !.
tented. with no aims that cross Bri-