The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-24
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Wilson at the one precise point where
Europe was bound to support him.
Ideas Ridiculous. =
One reads with amazement American
discussion Of the provisions Of the
league OF nations covenant. No one
in Europe gives them passing notice
save in a few restricted quarters, One
similarly reads with amaZement the
assertion that all Europe Is enthusi-
astically committed to the covenant OF
the league Of nations, This Is more
nonsense. Europe is interested In keep
ing as much faulty and ignorance out
Of the covenant as possible, Its interest
In the text Is purely negative. 1t
doesn't believe In the tex as such,
Last Of all, one comes to the point OF
view OF Americans in Europe outside
OF the presidents encourage. These
have no interest in the league of ma
tions covenant. They recognize that
all the early stages OF the war the pres
ident was totally out of accord with
their sympathy with the allied cause.
They believe, not too unreasonably, that
he cares little now about anything but
abstract academy phrases.
But on the other hand, u they do not
sympathize with Mr.. Wilson'S course
they emphatlcally do not with the
American opposition to 1t, They regard
with equal amazement and %disappoint-
ment the course Of the opposition In
deliberately adopting now the policy
that Mr., Wilson followed for three years
Of war, namely, the policy OF isolation,
separation from Europe, Its suffering,
its strlyings, Its battle, which remains
our battle.
They look with something approach
ing dismay at the opposition to the
president, the opposition to which these
| Americans belong, attacking that ASSOC
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most vital of all questions.
Nor In 1t different with many Repuh-
Leans in Europe In the army, They
are no more enthusiastic for the pres
ident and his later policies than they
have been for any of his early policies,
But they feel strongly, deeply, that our
task In Europe IL incomplete, that many
of their comrades will have died In vain
II we do not fortlfy their victory with a
solid peace which shall enable western
democratic Europe TO escape BolsheVism
to return to an ordered existence, They
recognize Bolshevism as a second men
ace, become real now the German peril
has disappeared, They, too, are dis
mayed by the apparent line Of action
adopted In America,
As long as opposition in America con-
c%entrates its attack upon the principle
of American association with Europe
In the present plan of peace, in the
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the old basis, Mr., Wilson win continue
to exercise undisputed mastery In the
Paris conference. In which nj mar
agrees with his abstract principles. al
men chafe at his insistenCe upon post,
poning peace until he has carried out
his own program, But not only th1t
but after peace comes every appeal Eu.
rope can make to the heart and con,
science of America will be made on Mr.
Wilson'S behalf, IL he Is permitted to re
tain his present position of sole cham
pion In America OF the cause of Euro
rean salvation. The first friend of GU
stricken allies, for whom American
friends, moral as well as material, 1
a matter OF life and death,
SO far the Republicans seem to b,
making the same mistake in Europ
with respect to Mr., Wilson that the,
made so frequently in America with re
spect Of Roosevelt; they are attacking
him at the one point where he is invul
nerable so far as his public Is con
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