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

and buildings. All this In an old
story IN England. but there II no
harm In reteiling 1t for the instruc-
ton Of Americans to whom war 70
only something that was fought
thousands OF miles away by the
American soldiers.
/ have already pointed out that
the rations of the soldiers. con-
sisting of repeated offensives that
never quite succeeded. had made
everyone despair of q military deci-
sion. and when the blockade-that
10. the starving out of the civilian
population. suddenly made an end
to the affair. there was no reason to
suppose that the armies. II cnly
their supplies could be kept up.
could not have gone on fighting for
thirty years, or three hundred.
Docs Not Admit Defeat.
Ludendorff does not admit mill
tary defeat. He IL as confident AZ
ever that with food enough he could
have fought all the allied generals
heads off 80. f-
The next war, then, III not be An
effort u defeat the opposing army
and thereby compel the dcfenselexa
cS Don.ne 70 Accops w.
II viii he an .ffort In comneI the
civilian population to choose be
tween destruction and the same nc
ceptance, even though the army
may be intact, well supplied and COW
erN1 With military 0lOs-v
rms ID practkally q new state OF
aHairs. and e makes an end OF the
oso assumption tnat foreign p0ucS
and war arc the business Of dlpao-
matiSts ana soldiers lin effect, Of
royal sportsmen and their whippers
M, ana NOS OF the CIVILIAN common
atty.
from this point OF view nothing is
more staggering about the late war
than the TACT that even the British
House OF Commons was not in
Iormed OF II Cstil the country was
actually mt war and had been 80 for
twentylour hours, and that the
United States were committed to 1t
py PRESIDENT who had been elected
expressly as the high-minded pacif.
Isl VINO had Kept his country out OF
''nue uo,ns 30.
u =" nc Lieu 10.
Inc citixens OF the United Statea
might Just as well have elected
Theodore Roos.veh for Ill IN. Ar.
ss-.c,. ~ -.
ome.1ior ~ 80. o VI o
IL. Ar,.S .
neonie h.S 81. s,,ph.. ns D."'s"
v '.,S "sa 'nc sngntest desire 20 20
w.. th.t IT, ~ = "a .n's
stnncndons 80. -. @ " ~" :"
th.f IT, -. ,no'
and m. .n~,,v az SS"Sss " wv;
Saf.n and :" Iii, sts ssWI's o'
necess.rv nit.h ~ ,".G., 70 Wv
iIment n. Or,,osi. S,.sh..sS ~o''
The oovarnir ,e ."'
TINA desnsratn,,, were ioF a
whether n wo,,ia ha ,o.,s 70
fbi.. hut The ,as,,,, s w
On conn,.ta,,, .h assured tnein
audacity of elected persons and ths
confident insolence Of hereditary
maGnates have become a greater
DANGER and have already caused
more misery In Europe land no
douDbin Amerfca than all the Huns
s~s we AohoWcu Atthd-
Enormous Disillusjoument-
Ttev bsve found an, ~, q,
ia IN do and arc n,,,,a s,ro :.
do n again Tha o,,...;e 'neS can
thew, Thay coz, 70, can
ayera 1a cit,,o ni al w
i.nor.nt ~ ~. ren,s.aa ooyishiy
90 rnaIndro ,,a.e, ,s LII oi WI ana
70. n.msas anS ,.n IN nls ooncepnon OF
1914 '" iS'ues q" he WAS III
n,,. .,
,,.,,,,,.,ns 49, mas peen an enc, NOUS
SnnsoS na'ss since tnen. Inc as
nrnr,,soS e. ,a, wiz WEI soIemnIy
,nou,d n.uan 80. .has .neT country
IT, ~ ,ho .,rnn. y. E az 90 o Nv
n.s 10. o., ss VI Insiaho lVv.oVV
s,,S anu tne sovernmen. IL nag
Sniiar aaS aIIws one
,,ota 49,, -, " ws, " ue
pu y ie ' on .ne eA,neroes VINO
, 'ee" 'uoAS enough 10 iino
'"
right 10 bftter End.
A million and half Britons who
were assured in 1914 that Germany
would be thoroughly plundered for
their benefit are out of work as q
direct consequence of that plumber.