Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-13
SAVE GERMANY FROM RED
TERROR BY SENDING FOOD
Secretary Of State Lansing Points
Way to Halt Menace OF
Anarchy.
PAINTS VIVID WAR PICTURE
In Address to Inter-Allied Press Club,
State Department, Head Shows
Need OF Taking Broad and I'm
selfish View of Situation.
fBy Assoc,at.d Prc,s.l

fBy Associated Prcss1
PARIS, March 1--WE have reached
a crisis in tho affairs Of the world"
said Secretary OF State Robert Lansing
a. Il banquet given last night by the
inter-allied press club in honor OF the
American peace commissioners. Mr..
Lansing was emphatic in his statement
that the allies must feed Germany and
give the Germans opportunity to sell
their products in the foreign markets,
II the danger OF Bolshevism was to be
avoided. lie painted n vivid picture
OF conditions in the war zone of France,
and pointed out that 1t was not through
advantage TO see that anarchy was
prevented in the former German en-
prc.
Mr. Lansing said:
~ is always privilege for an
American who knows the history OF
occaso n as this where the mutual
friendship OF France and the United
S states. traditional friendship of
preston in words and a resDonee IN
our hearts. "
SUPPORT FROM FRANCE
GAVE LIBERTY IMPETUS
across the seas the sympathy and aid
OF france gave the support which was
needed to make individual liberty the
now born nation. From that time for
ward liberty has been, and still is, the
n@se I ia pet Ind m9st cGmpslng IN
policies at home and abroad have been
nodded to that principle. No Ameri-
rom 1t or to seek to lessen its in
huence over American thought.
rnittad was s,s, when the people of the
ton that, the liberty for which they
h had fought and to which they owed
danger: when they realized That Fra FrsDo IN
ana mnl. the great democracies OF Europe
Nth n iinpnrlaed that the nation
inc sword with a firm determination 10
40 a., rs part In freeing liberty and the
world from autocracy.
MIGHTY VICTORY HAS
BEEN WON FOR RIGHT
mighty. victory has been won.
The imperial armies OF the central
movers have ceased TO threaten. They
no longer exist. Scattered and broken.
Lhey have returned to their homes
where hunger and prration await then:
hunger and privation which are the
consequences OF their own blind fai,h
IN cyii men who led them into this
unrlishteous war.
s.un1erins bitterly. and Germany is en-
Lifted TO suffer for what she has done.
. enc mas paid fearful penalty for the
years OF blood and fire. Today star
t Sa Ser anh n wan, are the po,ens Of
der stalk through the streets Of their
great cities. Political intuition. in.
9us.r'ai enterprise and the very struc-
the price of their own evil doing. the
just retribution OF their crimes
MAY BE DISPOSED
TO PITY INNOCENT ONES
we may DE disposed to pity those
innocent among the Germans. but our
Ply Is almost dried up whom we con-
nave Ssa 10 Faaes apa ether the
armies OF the Teutors Ten days after
] landed In. France. in December. I
aslds Of the Marne. Aisn t 'a and 9at the
Eha, saw in those days withe out
those Responsible for Such ruins and
destruction. without an Intense and
undying hatred for war
My friends, France has endured
tude and determina ton which excite esl
world. I cannot pick words to express
tNe praise would give TO the French
nIrmies and Their great generals. to the
VINO lived through those black DAYS
OF horror. when stoutest hearts might
w MIido have nav despaired; What greater
ape TO say I was in the trenches at
verdun.' ! fought at the somme' TO
I Inese, spl t,n troops who struggled
year without finching and with high
courage. France and The world owe a
PEACE BRINGS NEW
DANGERS AND PROBLEMS
And now that the great conflict is
Gndeu and the mighty war engine or
PRUSSIA is crushed, we have new prob
Iems 10 solve, new dangers TO over
come. East OF the Rhine there are
famine and idleness. want and misery.
planted the highly organized govern
ment OF imperial Germany Social or
oeT Is oreakins down under the dini-
cuities or defeat and the hopelcssncss
or 'ne future: Like the anarchy which
i9r years made an inferno of Russia,
me lires OF terrorism are ablazc in
the states of Germany. Over the ruins
OF inns once great empire the flames
are sweeping westward. 1t is no time
10 allow sentiments OF vengeance and
hatTed TO stand in the way Of checking
this connagration, which will soon he
az the German borders and threatening
other lands. We must change the
conditions on which social unrest feeds
and strive TO restore Germany To
normal. though 1t be weakened So
cial order. Two words tell the story
food and peace.
NEEDS FOOD TO SAVE
NATION FROM RED TERROR
TO ma ke Germany capable of resist
ing anarchy and the hideous despotism
OF the red terror. Germany must be
allowed to purchase food and to earn
that food industrial conditions must
DO restored by treaty of peace II
IS not out OF pity for the German peo-
without delay. but because we. the
victors In this war, will be the cher
sufferers IL II is not done.
You may demand reparation as
m ninrm,a as you please. but unless the
terials for their Industries and com
mercih opportunities to sell tba