The Washington herald., 1921-12-11

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that is conviction Of sin. The con-
ference will not prevent il. because
the delegates have no such convic-
ton.
They are swollen with the pride
OF victory and impenitent and con-
1 tumaciOus as to the wick edness g.
| involved. They have insisted on the
trialsand punishment Of all the Ger
/ man officers who ill-treated Their
prisoners; but no allied officers have
been called to account, the impli-
cation being that all the allied ser
! geants were lambs. ALL the allied
colonies gentle-tongued teetotallers
and all the allied interment camps
| orphan asylums.
Everybody who is not an ignorant
| gull in diplomatic matters knows
that what the powers are coming
to the conference for Is to make
themselves safe in the next war by
alliances and counter-alliances. The
opening is celebrated by warlil0e
ceremonies round the graves Of
those pathetic unknown warriors
who would so much rather have
been made much OF when they were
known and alive. all propagating
the belief that war Is the most
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success in IL the supreme glory.
Battle Flags I'm CathedraIs.
Any person suggesting the small
est doubt that the unknown war
riors are in Heaven, looking proud
ly down amid a host Of angels on
the honor paid to their skeletons
will be promptly lynched. All the
pageantry will be military pagean-
try. Battle flags will hang in all
the cathedrals. The men who were
at Mons or St Mihiel will be ex-
allied: and the men who said "Sirs.
We are brothers: wherefore do We
wrong one to another" will hide
until the conference is over.
No delegate will rise and say.
War is a crime which we must
eNpiate by eNplating 81; for the
plumber or the fallen however dis
guised as reparation, indemnity and
the like. is theft. and has already
brought on the starving people of
my victorious country all the evils
of defeat"
And no priest will add: The
word of the Lord against war has
been fulfilled to the bitter utter
most: the kings of the earth who
rose up and took counsel against
Him are in the dust; and the
dema rogues who persuaded the
people for them have slain more
innocents than Herod in their at
tempts to conduct the peace as they
had conducted the war"
Declares War Has Failed.
should not use these express
sions myself. because the people
might reply, For Gods sake no
more rhetoric; we have had enough
OF IT" therefore prefer to dwell
on the following cold facts:
The war has been a delusion and
a failure in res1ect to every one of
the objects with which the diplo-
matists perpetrated II; and the
peace has been more delusive and
disc strous than war. II has not ~
adjuSed the balance of power 10
secure equilibrium; il has left il
more unstable than ever and pro-
duced two storm centers. the Euro
pean and the Pacific. where there
was only one before.
II has not allayed the fear OF
Germany which has oppressed the
world since 1870; IL has intensified IL
on the part OF France to a poin'
at which II has brought her to the
verge OF open conflict with COM
paratively phlegmstic England
1t has not rescued suNiugated ma
tionalities by celebrating strategic
frontiers and substituting ethno-
graphic ones; the new1rontiers are
as unnatural as the old ones, only
the jackpot is on the other leg.
Sees Political Liberty Lost.
Belgium is not neutralized; IL has
not treatyswith France: and Eng
land. for the first time in her his
tory. has had to put up with this
after half running herself three
ttimes over in gigantic wars TO pre-
vent II. Ordinary political liberty
surviving in Germany. has ceased Ia
exist in England. France and the
United States.
The victors have not been re-
lieved from German industrial
competition. on the contrary the
, Welsh collieries have lost their
export trade, and the ship
wrights and engineers Of the
Tyneside and the Tees find their oc-
cupation gone because all the new
ships come from Germany NV way
Of indemnity: the import duties i'm
by British consumers who voted for
. making Germany pay: the victoriou.
heroes who charged the German
/ trenches are flying before the
: charges of the British mounted
J police lest they should storm tho
: House OF Commons to .clamor For
) bread for their children. and a IA
r nous Irish edition. George Russell "a
E.), notes that the only person who
has come out of the war with am
Intellectual credit is Jesus Christ
, II being now apparent that II al
, the combatants had turned the other
check and given the cloak after the
coat they would be much better of
. than they are at present
Emperorss Swept Into Dustbin.
So much for the failures of war
what about its successes? Il ha.
swept the Hapshurgs, the Hohen.
: zollerns and the Romanoffs into tn,
dustbin of history; scattered tn,
empires into groups or republics
which have changed the typical
form of modern government from
the monarchical TO the democratic
republican, and set up in the huge
couptry which straddles across the
European frontier a communis,
state with an army which has made
mince meat of the invasions Of Kol-
chak. Wrangel and Denikin, its
Carnot being a genius named Len.
inc. whom the British police i'm
, prisoned as a dangerous character
when he was/in England
Now, God may have intended al
, that: but most certainly the KAT