The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-11-22
BRAND DEFENDS
FRANCE AGAINST.
PR0PAGANDAM US.
His Appeal Designed to
Justify Army, Says
SimOnds.
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journalists in aud out of print. has
bean that the United States would
not only share in but actually open
q campaign to reduce the French
army.
The reason, of course. has been
that French policy with respect to
Germany insists on the maintenance
OF French security at the risk Of
the diminution Of British trade.
But naturally this reason has not
been thus crudely expressed by any
British journalist, novelist. or NOR
alist- British journalists, like
British statesmen. do not quarrel
with a rival. They only remon-
strate with a sinner after indors-
ing virtue itself. Thus to disagree
with them is to encourage vice.
The whole method is there.
Campaign Has Failed.
As a campaign TO enlist official
American support for an attack
upon the French army the British
press operation has failed. Since
the United States and Great Britain
were not prepared to insure France,
the representatives of Great Britain
and the United States in the con-
ference found themselves uEable to
persuade France to dIS4rln ard I'M
willing to precipitate the debate
which must have followed sucE a
course.
In a larger sense. however, the
British offensive against the French
military establishment has been by
no means unsuccessful. We shall
find when the conference has ad-
tourned, We may find even before
that time, certain elements in the
American public opinion which take
their color-from the so-called liberal
or Manchester school in Great Brit
ain eagerly agitatinS against the
French army.
Speech Offsets AtssI.
II is difficult. however. to believe
that the speech of NJ BRAND.
coupled with the visit of Marshal
Foch, will not succeed in doing
much to meet this offensive. To
these attacks upon France. based
upon the highest of humanitarian
considerations and inspired by the
most practical of all material con-
sIderation. NJ. BRAND devoted his
real attention.
His assertion that Germany is
ready to try il again will be chal-
lcnged. His declaration that the
old crowd are still in the saddle will
awaken opposing voices. But the
single unanswerable argument is
found In the fact that neither the
United States nor Great Britain is
prepared to guarantee the slightest
bit Of assistance to France, pro-
Nided French calculation is correct
and Germany remains nregenerate.
There are three strong naval
powers in the world. They are here
in Washington. when they agree
their policy binds the world. But
Germany is not here. Russia is not
here. No guarantees can he given
or taken. Therefore. with the close
Of VI. BRANDS speech, the question
of land ornaments fades first into
committee and then into that region
to be occupied by the permanently
unfinished business of the Washing
ton conference.
Appeal TO Be Understood.
1t was then. as | have said. an
isolated incident, this Eriand
speech; an incident slightly pa
thetic. despite the maEnificenCe of
the oratOrical effort. since it was
an appeal of the oldest friend our
country has knOwn-an appeal no
longer for material aid. no mere for
military or financial guarantees
an appeal of France simply to be
understood. 1t was msde at the
moment when she is most bitterly
attacked by many of those for whom
she held the line during the first
two bloody years of the war; at
the moment when a new Germany
is rising, a new Germany Of which
no man can yet say that il seeks
peace or revenge. international am
Ity or the ancient goal Of world
power pursued by ne wpathways
but in the same spirit.
The voice was the voice of the
France of the Marne and of Yer
dun, addressed to a world which
seems to have forgotten a little
prematurely, but most conveniently
who attacked and who defended in
those supreme struggles still recent