The Washington times., 1921-11-25
BY PHILIP FRANCIS.


half of Its staff here TO work under
the direction of Riddell and Willer'.
These and other British propagand.
lists. both OF the imported and the
domestic varieties. are everywhere
in evidence. and all as busy as n
pup chasing fleas.
The sole purpose of this British
propaganda bureau-which is called
the British Library of Information
and " located on the eighth floor
at A Whitehall street, Is to work
upon and through colleges, libraries.
and the churches In order to create
sentiment favorable to an alliance
between England and America. That
the staff has been largely transfer
red to Washington for the life Of
the conference Is only one of innu.
merable proofs Of the real object
for which England has come to the
conference.
Following the big Guns"
Nothing is left undone in the way
of entertaining and tollying any
body who Is in politics, in society,
or who speaks by voice or pen to
audiences of ellow-Americans.
The propaganda in favor OF ALI
ance Is ipsistent, persistent, ana
oeaseless. Money Is freely spent.
Establishment Is freely used. and
every art Of persuasion and induce
ment Is strenuously employed night
and day to create and to maintain
an atmosphere Of sentimental at
tachment to America on the part OF
British and Jananese.
From the way In which they love
America. one might almost suspect
that they were going to pay back
what they borrowed from us some
day-though that delicate topic has
80 far been discreetly kept out OF
public. II not out OF private discus
sion.
1t Is just as plain as a pikestaff
that England Is here to get an
alliance and to trade anything or
everything else for that one thing.
Call It what you william entente.
a gentlemen's agreement, an I'M
derstan ding, still II is an alliance,
and IL Is the object upon which
English diplomacy has set Its
heart and to obtain which 1t Is
using all it's arts and endeavors.
Talk Is Pure Bunk.
The talk of disarmament Is pure
bunk for the consumption Of Amer
leans who like to be fed with SEN
timental taffy while having their
pockets picked. The only dis
armament" that will be agreed to
by England and japan is reduc-
ton of the American navy to about
one-half the size of the combined
naval ornaments Of England and
Japan "a disarmament" that
would make America the tail OF
the Anglo-Japanese dog.
All three nations would have to
maintain navies practically as
costly as those they now have, and
ours would cost us far more than
their navies would cost England
and Japan. There would not be
any reduction In our taxation Tor
naval expenses. The difference
would be that we should be paying
taxes for naval defense that
could not defend us. And that
would be money worse than wasted.
1t Is hard to see how our states.
men can really be honestly taken
in by this British scheme to gain
again the dominion OF the seas.
which England has lost. and to
make our rich and powerful Ameri-
ca a weak dependent upon Eng.
alliance and England's diplomatic
good faith. Assuming that Mr..
Hughes and Mr.. Root and Mr..
Lodge and Mr.. Underwood are be-
inx honestly deceived ana uu,-
witted one certainly does not feel
that either their good sense or fore
sight is complimented by the as
sumption. ...
The slickest thing these British
have done in many years OF slick
dealing was to make this conference
look like a move toward disarma-
ment and the abolition of war. IL
Is no such thing. and 1t was never
meant to be. But 1t has been made
to look like that. and so skillfully
made to look so that nearly all our
press and the majority of our good
people have fallen for the bunko
game.
Slick Foreign Friends.
OF course, every honest and
right-thinking American would be
glad to see all military and naval
ornaments scrapped and all ma.
tional disputes submitted to arbitra-
ton instead of to the decision of
war. Anu ny appealing 10 tniS UNI
versal sentiment under a false pre-
tense that this purposed partial dis.
armament will bring about total
disarmament, our slick foreign
friends have caught the sentimental
fancy Of millions OF mistaken people
and Of a press whose usual pro-
nouncements upon foreign relations
and world politics read much like
the conversations between the
Walrus and the Carpenter in Alice
in Wonderland"
This intensive pro-alliance propa.
ganda has had a widespread effect.
There is no doubt of that. But those
Of us who saw the same propaganda
working with the same effect when
Mr.. Wilson and his British wire
pullers were trying to pull America
into the same alliance under cover
OF the League OF Nations are not
discouraged or afraid.
We went to the people on that
issue and whipped that propaganda
and that proposed alliance with Eng
land to a fragile. And so we can
and will do to the same propaganda
and the same scheme under their
new DISCUSSES.
The most hopeless job any propa-
ganda ever undertook IN to fool the
American DeOplp for apy lapotb ~