Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-05
PRESS COMMENTS.
WINSTON CHURCHIIL's CHlMERA.


The Times is right in saying that we
were painfully surprised by Lord
Curzon's speech. That which slrprises
us,--rather that which alarms us, is to
see that the best English minds arc de-
ociving themselves from the beginning
to the end.
Mr.. Winston Churchill gives ms the
proof. The Minister OF War Of the Lloyd
George Cabinets is beaten and discontented.
A partisan of vigorous action IN Russia,
he sees the opposite policy triumphIng,
the one which lends to recognition OF
Soviet Governments. He avenged himself
In announcing to his Dundee electorate
that the Allies would be quick in re-
penting of not having crushed in time
the Bolshevist peril,
The Bolshevist peril, to call 1t by its
true name, is the Russian peril. What
ever may be the regime in Russia, her
alliance with Germany remains the danger
of the future. Mr.. Winston Churchill
has the merit of understanding this, at
least His first error was in believing that
direct intervention in Russia would cure
the ill., The Intervention having failed,
as was easy to foraee Mr.. Winston Church
ill fell into q worse error. To foreftaH the
German Russian alliance in November
1918, il WAS not To ArchaDgel or Odessa
that troops should have been sent. 1t
was to Berlin 1t WAS not in Russia that we
should have been Federalists and sustain
ed local liberty against the centralizatlon
of the Bolsheviks, successors of the Cars
1t was German Federalism which should
have been supported and German Unity
which should have been distrusted. In
order not TO have one day To fear the arm
OF Trotsky, 1t was necessary that Noskc
army should not be able to draw from
reservoir of 10000. 600 people. IL was
easier To act militarily in Prussia than in
Mourmania or in Crmca, and easier to
act politically in Bavaria than in Esthonia
or Caucasia.
The contrary method, which consisted
in respecting and even IN Tightening Ger
man unity prevailed through the vii, of
the English. MIR Winston Churchill rs
persevering in this error How does he
think TO exercise the danger of the Ger
man-RlIssian alliance2 BY SO conserving
the resources of Germany rs TO keep her
from throwing herself into the arms Of
the Boshcviks" Launched upon this
course, the Minister Of War used 10 has
electors,language which differs IN nothing
from that Of Mr.. Asquith and of the
radical Germanophiles.
To consolidate Germany by conserving
IT., 10y leaving " large anu strong, W An
Anrlo-Saxon chimera. II can lead To
nothing but TO Serious modification.
There is no question, in spite Of what MIR.
Winston Churchill said, OF crushing Ger
many under foot and of giving way 10
spirit Of revenge, but rather of apulying
efiicacious means 20 prevent Germany
from doing harm. How can we doubt that
a unified Germany is naturally menacingY
We have but to listen 10 the statesmen of
Eastern Europe who are now IN Paris.
All will say that an independent Austria,
a repentant Hungary, a Poland glarantee
against fresh partitions a Czecho SlovalOla
protected from German domination
and Jugo Slavia mdisturhed, are only
possible IL the Rh ne. the Elbe and the
Main became again the natural boundaries
of Germany. The German Empire acting
as whole will be irreconcilable. With
its constituent parts separate cntentea
will he possible. This is the reverse of the
method which consists IN crushing the
Germans under foot. As for the system
recommended by MIR. Winston Church
III. it leads straight 10 another war and 10
the alliance of Russia and Germany, an
evil which can be cured only on the left
hank Of the Rhine at Stuttgart and at
Munich. Jacques Bsinville, in faction
Franchise