Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-02-02
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DAVID LAWRENCE, Prest.
SHALL HOLLAND BE FORCED
TO GIVE UP WILHELM?

IF the Allies are determined to
get the Hohenzollern, they will have
him." declares the Buffalo Evening
News tRep.) "a boycott and block
ade would be sufficient to persuade
Holland to hand him over for trial. =
The Pittsburgh Press tlnd0 calls
the Dutch refusal to deliver the Kai-
ser IAN unspeakabe affront to civ
izatton," and reminds lis that the
Queen of Holland is racially Ger
man" While cher husband is a Ger
man prince" and that during the war
they We're pro-German. This author
1ty believes the Allied peoples will
insist that pressure be put upon Hol-
land to force her to compliance"
This opinion is shared by the
Wichita Eagle Qnd1, which says
that when the LeaGue of Nations
economic blockade is ready for ae-
tion, It Should be tried out on Hol-
land and the Wheeling Register
(Qem.l adds that should Holland in
slA that there is no precede in in
national law upon which Mr.. Hob
olf\rn can he delivered. then it is
- Ne thai a precedent be estab-
l. ed;1s' force ii necessary"
Many othe" opinions strongly con
oemn tho Dutch governments uosi-
Ion, without, however, going so far
as TO suggest the use OF force by the
a lies. The New York Tribune
tEeo.) thinks that the Dutch gov
ernmet stands on techniCalities. and
is deaf to the claims of morality"
The Spokane Spokesman Review
lind. RepD believes that in shield,
ing this arCh-enemy of mankind"
Holland morally writes herself down
an accessory after the fact" and the
New York Globe QndD holds that
Holland is placed Gin an urcnyiable
1ignt; there is only one way of ac.
counting for such an attitude. and
shat is by ascribing to those now in
power in Holland certain sympathy
With its monarchies in general, or
with the Hohenzollerns and the kai.
ser In particular. The Philadelphia
Public Ledger Ind gives another
Aint: Stranger things have happen
3D." 1t says. than that little pres
sure from the Allies, or even threat
ened pressure, might bring about a
revolution in Holland, and so turn
that really stout and sensible nation
into . republic. The people of Hol-
land have given considerable evil
6ence that they would like TO dump
the kaiser and are in no mind to shell
ter man whom all the world re
CARDS as an atrocious criminal"
Yet the Dutch attitude is not with
Gut Its defenders in the American
press. The Grand Rapids Press
Qnd.) thinks that "the Allies are
relieved from a most embarrassing
situation, the record is kept clean
and everybody should he satisfied "
The Port Huron Times Herald Ind)
reminds us that America did not
identify herself with the attempt 10
bring the kaiser to trlal and only
. consented TO the proceeding with
great reluctance. Secretary Lansing
based his opposition on the ground
that there was no precedent or jus.
ufication and that the trial would
not in any sense be legal" The
Times-Herald further offers this as.
tonishing suggestion.
Hollands reply is probably the
result Of word being diplomatically
passed 10 that government that I'll
nations which asked to have the KAT
ser delivered to them would secretly
be delighted with a refusal.
Support is given to this suggestion
by the Pittsburgh Dispatch Qdl.
THE worst feature Of the affair is
the suspicion that the Allied states
uen.-neyer expected Holland to sur.
render the accused, and that tho
Mole procedure is merely a formal
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