The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-27
D ANNUNz|0 SAYS.
DELEGATES WILL
.UNMASK EUROPE
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After that vociferous sincerity the
door is shut and the shaded lamp
replaces the solar light.
Today free men vow that never
again shall low hypocrisy, the
generator Of all our woes, prevail.
Patrimony Of America.
They hope and trust that the pres
ent grandeur Of the leaders Of the
new politics will not soon appear
artificial. They do not want to re-
call that the stage buskin which
made the actors appear higher. had
cork clogs underneath.
To day America re-establishes
and re-enfOrces its resl and ideal
foundations. She replants her feet
in her laboring and fecupd soil, at
the same time shaking free from
contagion and reacquiring the full
sense of her former sturdy health.
Having wiped from her forehead
the CRIME and sweat of war. she
regards with a clear eye the hori-
zon toward which she Is directing
her destiny.
Thrusting aside the defamations
Of an infirm i'll spirit, whom she
repudiated, America finds again in
tact the sum of ideas on which
she bases her faith.
think the political representa-
tives of Europe are meeting at
Washington principally in order to
recognize this inviolate patrimony
Of America.
Great Disilluslon.
One of my uncomfortable COM
panions in the war said:
II have the eye Of a merchant
of slaves. able to Judge at single
glance the quality of human flesh.
even IL it is dissimulated by q
tailor"
He seemed to empty men Is If
he took them by the feet and shook
them like sacks.
The old European sacks want to
be shaken and emptied OF all their
fraud and errors. When I'm the
history Of the world has great
event left a greater disillusiOn?
We were ingenious enough to
think that the war we fought would
renew life. We thought the havoc
would prepare mystical spaces for
ideal appearances.
We thought that earth would
take the horizontal body of man
as q unique measure to gauge his
greatest destiny. and that being
satiated with flesh would give 1t
US back as spirit.
Injustice and Servitude.
We thought that butchery. dis
solving, would generate sublime
lamentations. We thought that
where largest was the offer the
higher would be the miracle.
Too soon we perceived that we
had fought to keep in motion the
old constructive machinery OF in
justice and servitude.
Look Look , e. this ss,,,l EUROPE deeply deeply
has come like the Holy Word only
to be disseminated in the haunt Of
plundefery, Hike money without Its
effigy, falsified and useless.
. Europe vegetables miserably with
her convulsed nerves and her i'm
poverished arteries. Only hate has
power to agitate her paralyzed
limbs. Only the most purified lies
remain to her as balm for her
wounds.
Unmasking Europe.
As obscure menaces din on her
head, thronged with dead thoughts,
she half opened her eyes, being oc-
cupied with licking and warming
with her breath her two abortions-
the Treaty of Versailles and the
League of Nations.
q rpno n
an exact image.
do not think the conference will
be able to dissolve imminent dangers
or resolve tremendous problems.
But II will have accomplished a
work of incalculable efficiency by
setting the American people sincere
ly In front OF unmasked Europe, put
ting Europe herself In the front Of
her own faults and her own ruins.
Already Italy is alone among the
allied nations. Whilst she could
have avoided war and remained an
inert spectator, she freely took up
arms, not 50 much to conquer her
heirloom as for the salvation of ALL
that in centuries had been born
from Rome-the nobility of free
man.
For Ideal Reason.
She took up arms as America did
for ideal reason, for heroic claim.
Her spontaneous act, like that Of
the people under George Washing
ton, had the beauty Of sacrifice Of
fered to the hope of man.
So today Italy, victorious but
poor, defrauded Of her just part and
free of all low cupidity, open or
concealed, are alone, with her head
high and a sure voice, pronounce q
word worthy Of the future In front
Of that capital erected by the fell
lows OF Lincoln. not as a comment
Grafton of that illustrous monu-
ment, but for the glory Of highest
human dignity in secula seculorum.
Further articles bp D'Annunzio
UiU be published in The Washing
ton Tinaes.)