The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-21

Germany is trying hard to make us think that satisfaction of our just demands is an illusory affair. Oh, we talked of German propa- ganda before the war and during the war. Why can't we see how active German propaganda is now? It is too crude to say that those who seem to be serving her interests in England today are fin Germany's pay It re- quireS a great deal of subtlety of thought and expression to see and explain just how her influence is able to make itself felt through them. What has happened in England is that there are two coalitions. There is the coalition in the Government which, under Lloyd George, won the war and is now trying to collect more for her crushed allies than for Great Britain = the judgment that victory awarded. Then, there is a new coalition of all the old disappointed elements that, playing Germany s game throughout the war, were shut out of the Government - a curious coalition in which are united persons of the most divergent political faiths. so that we see a Tory Lansdowne cheek and jowl with a Laborite Ramsay Macdonald. The bond, whether they realize it or not was made in Germany
 The bitterness which Mrs Plank hurst feels against the one time Prime Minister, who so relentIessly opposed the women's suffrage move ment in England and heaped ridicule on the Fsuffra agettes,'' has not lessen ed with the lapse of time.
 Questioned as to MT. Asquith's chances of election to Parliamen. from nd rf tIA c-irr E1 l of such a victory, she replied: '"There has been disposition here i to overrate the importance of a pos sible victory for the former Premier | at Paisley. The vital thing, to my mind, is the fact that MT. Asquitt | was defeated in his old stamping ground in East Fife in the 1918 cleo. | tions and that he wouldn't stand 2 chance either there or in any Englist 1 election district today. Scotland is
 a last resort. The doctrinaire liberal. 1 ism of the Scotch is the final refuge 1 of a discredited Liberal leader. UT
 in Scotland they vote the Libera 1 ticket by tradition and training quitt as your solid South votes the Demo ] cratic ticket.
 "But after all a single politician is a very small thing. It is publi
 sentiment that is important, and pub
 lie sentiment, here and in Grea Britain, must be kept steadfast il the determination to make the Hui pay for the crimes. I have beeI
 through France and Belgium and
 have talked with people in thos i countries who have a very exact an
 horrible notion of how the Kaiser soldiers pillaged, burnt and de
 stroyed.
 ''To some of us Germany declare | that if she is pressed by the Allie demands to carry out the terms o l the treaty, reaction will be a result others of us she threatens with BoI
 shevisn. But we ought to be used t
 her gigantic bluffs by now. Durin
 the war it was the civilian line a home that was always the weak lin
 of defence. After the war, when W are all civilians, are we going to Ie Germany escape her just punish
 ment?
 "As for the women, If I know tn l women of England, I know that the are not weakening. With the excep
 ton of a few cranks they backed tn J win the war policy all through tn war and they are not liable to chang
 now"