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be endured while the powers making
them retain the force TO impose them.
Italy regards the league Of nations as
an association OF unsynpathetic pow
ers- which have rejected Italys claims
and i'll repaid Italy's services and sac
rifices in the war. Therefore. by none
OF these peoples is the league OF na-
lions accepted in fact. the acceptance
today is an acceptance imposed BY
necessities existing at the moment.
but likely to pass within certain
time
But II the German policy will
obviously be to capitalize the dis
satisfaction in the nations which
have suffered justly hut terribly
by the defeat, to exploit the dis
appointments OF Italy. TO stimulate
the rivalrieS. the jeaIOusies. the
Observation-Disclosures between the
three nations which have won the
war, made the pence. constitute
the single guarantee for world
peace In the future. l. IL less plain
how imperative Is the need that
the United States. Great Britain
and France shall continue TO
march together until the menace
of 4 new German attack Il passed
Ind pass Il Will II the new na-
items wa have called into exist
enee can have time TO organlze
and add their strength to ours ns
. guarantee OF world Orderf
But what concern has America IN
all this again and again since I re-
turned from Paris I have heard the
same uestiOn asked Well. four years
ago. three years ago. the same 1ues-
ton was asked with respect to the
world war. yet in the end We were
dragged INTO the struggle under con-
US in a losing war. We should not
be less but more affected by any new
German attack We shall not be less
concerned II Germany. by enlisting
American championship, defaults upon
Ter obligations 10 France and plunges
France into bankruptcy and revclu-
ton. II by her propaganda and her
maneurers she separates US from
Britain and attacks Britain.
The treaty Of Versailles does not
accomplish German defeat IN this
war; It merely provides a basis for
the accomplishment OF the fact. Ger
many will have lost the war only
when she shall have paid the price Of
Der devastations- II France falls.
Germany VIII yet win the war II she
separates Us from the French and the
British she viii prepare the way for
new and successful war. She viii
accept this peace as a settlement only
when she understands that II is per-
manently guaranteed by the nations
which combined to defeat her and in
combination can always defeat her.
German Policy Il Clear.
German policy for the next months
and years is obvious. il may succeed.
and II It does it will make all the
sacrifice OF the last war in vain. FOR
the German spirit. the German ideals,
the German purpose remain the same
1t viii fail. the victory viii be main
tanned. II the friendship. association,
understanding between Great Britain.
France and the United States endure
and increase with the wears This as
ISOLATION was the rock OF which the
German attack broke. It is the corner
stone OF world peace and world free
dom for the future. it is the fact. the
only fact in the dream OF league Of
nations. for which il may become the
foundation. but without which there
can be neither a league OF nations nor
more than a temporary peace in the
world--COpyrigh 1919, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate