The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-14
THE CRITICAL HOUR.

allied power Sf tney are 70 avoid quarreng among them
selves There must be cessation by the nations Of Their
uncompromsng efforts to push their individual claims
through without regard to the claims of other nations
through without regard to the claims of other nations
Unless there is both recognition of national sovereign
ties and spirit of compromise among these sovereigntie
it idle to look for permanent peace from the Paris
ference.
1t is fashionable among many highbrow university pro
fessors and students to describe themselves as liberals
no longer bound by the channs of "natonaism." Adj
herence to single nations interest is regarded by then
as provincial and parochaL They regard themselves
Citizens of the world" which they to think make:
them broader and better than mere Americans" Such
hafbaked agators these are ready tools of the SIMS
ter nteects that engineering the bolshevk propa
ganda. Consequently throughout America we find boil
shevim Stoutly supported by many persons supposed
to be educated They prefer to reject the word boshe
men by sovets and better STILL international govern
ments
The type of ibera" is found in allied countries
gnoranty aiding the worlds enemies nj undermining the
very walls OF liberty and national independence. Is il
any wonder that statesmen beginning to put their foot
down on such movements? Is it any wonder that the
proposed league of nations opposed by natrioc nation
aists of every country whenever it appears that the
league is to sap the vgor and vitality of the national
spirit?
What saved the world from Germany's brutal and fe
rocious domination? Strong nations independent peo
pies organized by themselves in homogeneous and harmo
nousy working units called nations After thousands
of struggle have reached the point where they
have security of fe liberty and pursuit of happiness
by organizing themselves into nations Explosive and
sruptve elemnts excluded from each nation, al
practicable and each nation recognizes the right of all
others to exercise exclusive sovereignty its peo
pie and to exclude undesirabes. Then, by steadily in.
reasng enlghtment and improved facilities for inter
course the nations manage to preserve peace and good
will among themselves, as rule By cooperating they
have succeeded in defeating outlaw nation that refused
recognize the rights of the others III the very nick Of
time strong and intensely individual nation Joined the
attacked parties and made victory quick and complete
What patriotic American wishes to impair the indvidu
aty vgor of the United States? Is not every citizen
glad tnat the united states was aDSoluCey unnampereC
in its sovereign will throughout the war; and that it is
perfectly free to defend its own interests?
The nations overrdden by Germany have grievous
problems They know their hurt best They have
the right to demand of other nations that
delay shall be imposed upon them in recovering from
Germany much and quickly possible such indem
mites Germany pay. The other nations have the
right to demand that the outraged nations shall not
turn in and dsembowe Germany, thus piling wrong
upon another and making another certainty There
must therefore, be steady and generous spirit of
promise based upon respect for the undsputed sovereign
of each nation and its equality with other soveregns
The tempers of strained by the long anxietes
of the war. The best intellects clouded some
what by individual weakness and rritations For this
reason the situation of the allied nations is full of dan
gers many of them not suspected by the peoples
The allied satesment have done WE'LL the whole They
have shown good faith and good comradshp Now, in this
critical hour when bruised and sensitive national spirits
must be reconciled with grim necessity for compromise
the real craftsmanship of the allied leaders will be tested
to the umoGt 1t is hour for natience and forbear
ance for rmness and frankness for quick sympathy and
fertility of expedents and above ALL for repression of
provocative speech-Wa shington Post.
Hundreds of grimy playful paragraphs about the ex