The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-04

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payer.
But Balance of Power diplomacy
is not in sood repute now. 1t Is
certainly not UP to date. The
Wordsworth u770-1s50) 1t was al.
ready q very old plan, based on the
principle that they shall take who
have the power. and they shall
keep who can; In short, the pftn'
ciple Of theft.
Now. when that clear-headed
Frederick Of Hohenzollern. called
Frederick the Great for his BIC
cess In carrying II out, inaus1i-
rated our modern dynastic warfare
by quite unprovokedly taking ST.
lesia from Maria Theresa of Aus
tria, and adding Il to Prussia. he
was acting, not an q ,public-spirit-
ed reformer Of European frontiers.
at simply and frankly a. sports
man. He made no pretense ABOUT
It; he did not want Silesia particu.
larly; he wanted. AZ he said. TO cut
q figure in the world and get him.
self talked about.
That the sport involved the kill
ing Of men was nothing u him:
II was as recognized q practice as
the killing Of cartridges; besides,
the men shared in the sport. The
men were soldiers, and the sport
Was one between soldiers and sOl.
diers, except when . city was be-
sieged and sacked. or troops BILL
leted ON II. Otherwise II did not
touch tho civilian, and was not sup
pOszd to be his affair.
1he notion. that you can win .
war by killing civilians or wipe out
. nation BY exterrninatfng Its wom-
en- was not accepted. German SOL
AID grand dukes to any one who
would buy them, but they were
sold ~ serfs, not ~ civilians.
In spite of the attack by all Eu-
rope on the French in the mon
archical crusade against the French
revolution, when the whole French
nation flew to arms, the idea that
civilians as such are exempt from
the risks of war and are inviolable
as to their persons. lasted 30 long.
and IL still so inveterate, that
myself came up against 1t when
the first Zeppelin raids on London
occurred in the late war.
Bombpro0f Shelters.
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citizens. especially In the play
grounds of the elementary schools.
80 that the children might have q
familiar refuge. I pointed cut that
the airplane and the dirigible hal
at last enabled military forces to
he lAf ID n
army and make war on the civil
population at first hand.
To my amusement the editor OF
the Times Indignantly refused to
publish a communication counte-
nancing the monstrous doctrine that
civilians were not sacred. and that
the soldier who would raise mis- hand
to q fellow-creature in mutt save
in the way of kindness was not I'M
worthy of the name of Briton.
I could only gasp out "Sancta
Cimplicitas" and send my letter to
the leading Liberal London daily.
then edited by one of the ablest
journalists In the country. To my
double amusement he also said that
he had never expected to agree
with the editor OF the Times, but
that In this matter he did so most
heartily. and that 1t would be Inn
possible TO publish my letter In any
civilized country.
shower Oh hxpiosiSes.
But for Mr.. Massingham. the
editor OF the Nation, 1t would not
have been published at all. 1t had
hardly appeared when the Germans
rudely awakened the shocked editors
from their dream by fresh shower
OF explosive iron rain. which spared
neither age, sex. nor condition. with
the exception OF the soldiers home
on leave. who. having no illusions
on the subject. made for the nearest
underground railway station at the
first sound OF the aircraft guns.
No American civilian who stayed
In his own country during the war
can have any adequate conception Of
how completely every town In Eng
land within reach OF the air raids
was converted to the view that In the
next war the only safe people would
be the soldiers In their dugOuts.