The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-11
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

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 Denman charges that at the very time MT. Balfour was in Washington, in May, 1917, borrowing the four bill lions from the United States, the the secret treaty with Japan, where by Japan was to receive at the end of the World war the Chinese Shan tung province, and the Marienne group of islands in the Pacific. The Marienne islands lie between the North Asian coast and the island of empire of Japan. With Japan in con- trol of these islands American fleets are barred from the North Asiatic coast and from a possible naval of fensive against the Japanese main land.
 One of the things exacted from Japan, in return for the secret Shan. tung agreement and the possession of the Marienne group, was an agree ment to give Great Britain control oi the other islands in the South Pacific which in the event of war between the United States and Japan would cut the American Pacific fleet off from the Philippines. Guam would he isolated as an American naval base.
 Denman says: "Britains action is comparable to a treaty between the United States and Germany, say 1 thirty years ago, whereby the United States agreed, for a price, to secretly assist Germany to secure the island of Helgoland"
 Denman makes the direct charge that Balfour completely deceived Sec retary Lansing and other American officials in Washington when he was borrowing the four billions, regarding any secret treaty with Japan. In fact, the American officials were practically assured by Balfour that there were no secret treaties which Great Britain had with any nation for disposition of the spells of war to be taken from Germany.
 Such duplicity, according to mem bers of congress, is not only repre- hensible in itself, but is more so be- cause England was soliciting the huge loan without which it is prob. able Germany would have conquered her, and at the same time carrying on the intrigue with Japan which has resulted in the isolation of Guam as an American naval base for the bene' fit, not only of England but of Ja. pan, our great rival in the Pacific and a nation that sooner or later we shall have to soundly thrash.
 This is not the only time that Great Britain has been detected in selfishness and duplicity in dealing with the United States. Another in stance is found in the grab of the oil fields in Mesopotamia. England ac' quired these cast oil deposits, for her self and for France; well knowing that the United States is short of oil, but saying never a word in re. gard to sharing the Mesopotamia oil treasures with this country.
 The Anglo-American situation is best summed up, according to many | m o,,o harc oP ooporaco oo foIIous.
 The British Empire would not be in existence today had it not been for the United States. Germany long ere this would have crushed England into an ignominious peace. Germany would by this time have been in pos, session of all the vast colonial pos. it not been for the United States, for the Allies were already whipped when the United States entered the World war This is acknowledged by any man of common sense. The Brit. ish Empire would have been carved up into German colonies Entrance of the United States in the World war was the decisive factor that de- | feated Germany. Great Britain ex- ists today as a far-flung empire only because the United States rescued her from the talons of the German eagle.
 Yet British diplomats like Balfour deliberately deceive the United States while borrowing it's money, and ar ranpa snnrntlu at thn snnn tirnn Ia