South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-02
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(Ft. wayne Journal-Gazette.)


Admiral Sims the greatest British admiral in
the American navy" has moved TO the support of
Ambassador George Harvey, amidst the waving of
the Union Jack and the singing OF Rule Britannia.
The contemplate lckspittle address this week
his English friends in London that the British
had given the Americans too much credit for the
part played in the war. That is what Harvey,
the American" ambassador 10 England, said in his
Pilgrims speech.
The admiral told his English friends that we were
mere RESERVES coming up from the rear" and Har-
vey said helped little end the which
he seemed TO feel had already been won by the
English
The methods in royal sport are well known. Real
hunters round up the game get il cOTneTed it
cannot escape, and then the king steps forward,
under the protection Of the guns of his courtiers,
and ends the fight That is the sort Of king we
the Harvey That's right"
smirkingy says the greatest British admiral in
the American navy
And so it seems that we played a rather cheap
and insignificant part after all What chummy
souls these two-Sims and Harvey-drinking their
cocktails in the American embassy and grooming,
mother England"
But the little conversation in the American en-
bassy probably takes the character Of a per-
fectly friendly debate to just why entered
the war at ALL The admiral insists that we entered
TO England and the British empire. Not so,
snaps the colonel 1--WE fought because were
afraid not to fight" quite true" rejoins the ad-
rniraL I'VE were afraid if didn't fight the EN-
pire would go TO pieces. Tut, tut, William" pro-
tests the ambassador, I'VE merely went in TO
hides"
An, we'll" concludes the ambassador. not wish
ing press his POINT on a guest who had just re-
ceved the hOnoTs OF Cambridge, I'VE can agree that
did not fight for democracy or against autocracy,
or against militarism, to put end to
Wasn't Wilson silly ass?"
Worse" snaps the admiral but the people were
as bad. They talked that kind of twaddle. "Soph-
omoric stuff" adds the ambassador.
And thus with cocktail glasses clinking The
King" the two 100 per cent Americans, and saviors
of American Institutions turn 10 the discussion Of
the grace with which me Lud Doughhead manages
his mOnOcle.
dead who fought because they were afraid not 10
hght," Prest Harding. laying wreath on easket.
said
1T must not be again. 1t must not be again. God
grant Il will be-
And Harvey, In England tells the world that we
shall have nothing whatever TO do with any con-
action OF the nations Of the earth prevent
il from being again PTes't Harding is not the first
man TO say-'It must not be again" That sad
by Woodrow Wilson in the beginning It
echoed by Root and Taft and the millions. II was
heard from the platform in the midst OF the
1t said in flaming letters the posters calling
upon people for sacrifices.
1T be again. said.
This IS a war said.
But that long ago that IN
sistng that this IS all latter day stuff If IL is not
be again. Pres't Harding and his administration
must present a plan Of prevention The league-it
vey and the president stands mute. Even the
presidents mysterious association OF nations"
against has been lightly thrown aside by Har-
vey and the president stands mute
After every say what the president said
when he stood in the presence of the heroic dead
who fought because they were afraid not 10 fight"
But nothing has been done TO make the words good
Nothing serious was ever attempted until the
League OF Nations devised And IL Will require
something more than melancholy chants to make
good the woFds--It must not be again"