Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-31
HOW DOES 1T
STRIKE YOU?

THE German revolution has driven
l. wedge between the Allies-bctween
France on the one side and England
and Italy on the other.
England and Italy want Germany as
a market and a source Of materials.
France is not industrially advanced
enough to need a market as England
needs markets.
France probably cares less whether
Germany goes Bolshevist than do her
associates.
France wants time.
Internal convulsions in Germany
give time and the excuse for inter-
ference.
The division is on economic lines.
Some see in it break up OF the
combination that won the war.
But that is nonsense.
Considerations of mutual safety hold
France. England and Italy together. e
France is the key to England
safety from invasion.
Some think that Italy will ultimately
seek an alliance with Germany.
That is impossible.
Italy is virtually an island.
She is at the mercy of the naVa'
mower that controls the Mediterranean
So long as England commands the
seas Italy must, as she did IN thls wa,
despite her German alliance, cast III
her lot with England.
Some talk of japanese German
Russian combination.
Japan. unless her navy becomes as
strong as England. must, like ltaly
and Greece, seek safety in corporation
with England.
The last war was, generally, war
between the great continental powers
of Europe with the great sea powers Oh
the world, the United States being WIN
respect to Europe sea power. :.
Only break between the Onltea
States, when her navy equals. that OF
Great Britain. and Great Britain couiu
cause a rcalignment OF the world power,
and even then the United states Is SO
far away as to be rather suDordinate
factor, if one allows for the possipility
Of development that lies IN tne pri'isn
: colonies. :
TRANCE might shift sides and ally
L herself with the continental powers
il England at any time refused 10 pay
her her price.
But France has made peace that
rrecludes apy combination with Ger
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great continental powers, Germany
Russia and China.
The benefciaries Of the peac" are the
great island and peninsula powers; IN
Guiding France, which is bound to Eng
! land by mutual interests;
Germany. Russia and China may
mako some day a tremendous combina
! tion. possessing as they do among them
tremendous undeveloped resources.
But Russia and China are disorgan
lied politically and undeyelopCd, and are
both pacifst nations.
And Germany is tied hand and ZOO
! by the peace.
France are differences OF immediate
nolicy. not of fundamental interest.
q q a.
THE German revolution is begged tol
i the moment at Mueller. who is radi
cal but somewhere short OF Lcgien, the
labor leader, who, in turn, Is somewhere
short of the Spartacists.
II il can be stopped there IT may
| have SODerlnR lnuuehSe up'u u'op.
The future lies thus; Either Russia
will move toward Germany and become
more conservative, or Germany VII
move toward Russia, in which cas-
bolshevism, with added impetus, in
stead of growing more moderate as rev
olutionary movements normally do, may
turn even more violent, the necessity
for conciliating the worlds opinion be-
ing lessened by the added strength Of
Whether Germany stops where she il
or goes on to the left, depends on the
Allies.
where. either among her western neigh
bors or among her eastern neighbors.
Germany is like man Just out ol
prison.
n lob and showing him little kind
ness, or the police may hound him down
among the outcasts.
q q q
UNHE German revolution lined up the
J. town against the country. 20
Kapp and his crowd represented thu
/ combination Of imilitarists and agra
rians.
The city workers beat them with 4
general strike.
The Mueller government is q CON,
promise which, on the one hand, doe
not punish the Kapp treason nor tn,
| Spsrtacist treason,
! But the tQXRs the industrial popgla'