Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-03-13
GERMANY MUST
BE GIVEN AID
LANSING SAYS
Crisis Reached in Affairs Of
World Secretary Of State
Tells Press Club.
{By the Associated Press)

(By the Associated Press)
Paris, March 11.-Asserting that
we have reached crisis in the affairs
of the world, Secretary Robert Lam
sing, at banquet given tonight by
the International Press club in honor
of the American peace commission,
said that the Allies must feed Ger
many and give the Germans oppor-
tunity to sell their products in for
eign markets If the danger of Boil
shevism was to be avoided.
He painted a vivid picture of the
conditions in the war zone of France
and pointed out that it was not
through pity for the Germans but to
the Allies own advantage to see that
anarchy was prevented in the former
German empire.
"a mighty victory has been won.
The imperial armies of the Central
Powers cease to threaten. They no
longer exist Scattered and broken,
they have returned to their homes
where hunger and privation, which
are the consequences of their own
blind fate in the evil men who led
them.
Germany has suffered bitterly,
is suffering bitterly, and Germany is
entitled to suffer for what she has
done. She has paid fearful penal
| ty for the crime of plunging the
world into four years of blood and
fire. Today starvation and want
are the portion of the German peo-
! pie. Violence and murder stalk
through the streets of their great
city. Political institutions, indus
trial enterprises and the very struc-
ture of society are tottering.
"It is the price of their own evil
doings, the just return of their
crimes.
1--WE mas be disposed to pity those
innocents among the Germans, but
our pity is almost dried up when we
consider what France and other ma
tioDs have had to suffer from the in
vading armies.
"And now that the great conflict
is ended, and the mighty war engine
of Prussia has been crushed, we have
new problems to solve, new dangers
to overcome. East of the Rhine there
is famine and idleness, want and mis-
cry. Political chaos and outlawry
have supplanted the highly organized
government of imperial Germany.
Social order is breaking down under
the difficulties of defeat and the
hopelessness of the future. Like an
arches which for years made an in
ferno of Russia, the fires of terror
ism are ablaze in the states of Ger
many. 1t is not time to allow the
sentiment of vengeance and hatred
to stand in the way of checking this
conflagration, which will soon be at
the German borders and threating
other lands. We must change the
condition On which social unrest feeds
and strive to restore Germany to nor
NAL, though it be a weakened social
order.
1.-TWO words tell the story, food
land peace. To make Germany capa-
BILE of resisting anarchy and the
hideous despotism of the red terror,
Germany must be allowed to pur-
chase food, and to earn food indus
tries must be restored by the treaty
Of peace. J.
'1t is not out of pity for the Ger
man people that this be done, and be
done without delay, because we the
victors in this war will be the chief
sufferers il it is not done.
There is no time to be lost if we
are to save the world from the des-
potism of anarchy, even as we have
saved it from the despotism of auto
cracy. We ought to make, we must
make, peace without delay, and ships
ladened with food must enter the
harbors of Germany.
1--WE have reached the crisis of
the affairs of the world. We must
meet without passion and without
Judgment warped by natural and
unavoidable desire for vengeance on
the nation that has committed such
atrocities of the Germans have COM
mitted. .5 3.1
S"There cannot be any doubt in the
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