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Tuesday, March II, 1919
The Terms for Germany

she should be prevented from
territorial expansion and growth
so that she may a few years
hence again attempt to dominate the
world.
Both these questions present prac-
teal difficulties. It. Germany Is to
pay the $4,000, 900. 900 bin to be pre-
scented by the committee on repara-
ton she must have the necessary
funds. A: a means Of procuring
money it has been maintained that
she must have opportunity to make
and sell her goods in the open mar
kets of the world. This, Of course,
gives her at once n great advantage
over France whose factories and lands
she deliberately plundered and de-
stroycd. Germany has her factories
and lands intact, and what is more.
has installed the machinery taken
from France and will be all ready for
business as soon as the blockade is
lifted and she can get raw materials.
Louis Loucheur. French minister of
national reconstruction estimates the
value Of destroyed and stolen prop
erty at 75,O00,000.O0O francs and says
it would take ten years and 10000
cars to bring back the plumber from
Germany. But it will be not only
France who will have to meet the
competition Ct German goods. The
world will be flooded with them and
they will be offered at more attractive
prices than other countries can af-
ford to take. Germany is going to
see to that, for she intends to pene-
trate the world by economic means
now that her military schemes have
failed. Her propagandists are even
now on the job, working while we
talk. But instead Of giving her free
commercial rein, allowing her to de-
velop great industries and assume
control Of world trade as she will do
if we let her pay her war bills out of
her profits. why not force her to drive
her mills and factories at full speed
and turn the products over to an in.
ternationai board outright? Such
products will be perfectly acceptable
in lieu OF money. and in this way the
associated powers would retain con-
troll of world markets and economics.
Such program will be hard for
Germany, of course. but what does
she deserve in the way Of leniency?
1t will. also require the presence in
Germany of prison guards and war
dens to see that she carries out this
25-or 35-year sentence at hard labor.
but under present plans The armies of
occupation are to be KEEP at their
post until payments are we'll under
way.
AS to the need Of curling Ger
many's territorial aspirations the
London Times. commenting on the
terms which Marshal F'och will pre-
sent to the Germans. has this to say:
They VIII be severe and such as will
effectively disarm the Central Power;
on the SD. nearest France France has
a Just right to extra military Euaran.
tees on her frontier towards Germany
ana these guarantees may well Rave I,
take the form of social territorial ~.
1ustments. In any case, France ma
count on our sympathy and as iistan q
IN obtaining all these necessary guarAn-
but the chief weakness In the future
Will be in Eastern Europe. and that is
why barrier of new states, 10 be erect
ed between the Baltic and Adriatic, will
our power Although France has a
particular interest in the west front tho
detection OF Bolshevist Russia makes It
desirable that she should find some sub
alliance. and 1t must be a great ioy 10
her people that this substitute should
take the form OF a barrier line Of free
peoples.
Our own position has many points of
resemblance to THAI Of France. The
main avenues Of the League Of Nations
communication with free peoples be-
tween the Baltic and Adriatic will be
anxious about free passage into the
Baltic. and also that there should be at
its eastern end friendly powers to pro-
vide the naveS of the League. after
they nave entered the Baltic. with re-
pairs and facilities Of operation.
But that Is not all. AS in Eastern
Europe. we hope to see a barrier OF free
states erected: so that England. which
mas India to think of. may be protected
IN the Middle East. No one substitute
Will cover all the ground once occupied
by the Ottoman Empire. Its old func-
uSns VIII have to be divided between
palestine: That is why the question Of
syria Is 50 important to US. France has
e right to the best frontiers possible on
the side OF Germany. and we have a
similar right In the Middle East. for It
u not our way to keep huge armies gar
1son!ns Irontiere Our way Is to dimin-
buffer states.' ~
The principle Of the buffer state
has been in operation in Europe for
centuries with varying success rs far
as the two rival states are concerned.
and with universal hardship to the
"buder." This principle should be sent
TO the scrap heaD along with the
balance Of power" whose child it
u We have every desire In the
world 70 eco tho rapid and healthy
Growth At tho new nations born out
ef fhezwar in eastern Ewope. but We