The Washington times., 1922-11-26
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of people whose-ideas are diametri-
cally opposed to mine.
In times gone by. you have been,
my dear president, q great friend
Of Italy. You have often reminded
me of the fact. You voice was the
only one raised in protest against
the French occupation of Tunis.
l have always been a confirmed
friend of Democratic France and
decided adversary of German i'm
perialism. If l now find myself ut
loggerheads with the French policy
| ii is precisely because France has
swerved from that program of de-
mocracy which constituted ns ira
ditional glory, it's greatest moral
force which in the fatal year Of
1914 brought to her side the de-
mocracies of the whole world.
Very probably, my dear President,
| when addressing your American
audiences, you will lay stress upon
the fact that the misdeeds of i'm.
perial Germany, its warlike feudal
Of the kaiser were not Indifferent
| world conflict.
On the other hand. If as Lloyd
George has shown and as an impair
! tial examination of the facts has
proved, 1t would be unjust to relieve
the German people of even the slight
est fraction Of responsibility. You
will justly remind your hearers Of
the invasion of Belgium and the de-
| vastation Of French territories.
These are facts which no pleas for
extenuation is possible. You will
probably recall the war proclama-
tions of the Kaiser, as cruel as they
were stupid. 1 shall not find fault
with your Judgment in this matter,
| however severe.
DETESTS IMPERIALISM.
As a democrat Of old standing. I
have always detested Imperialism,
nationalism and Xenophobin. Your
! words, therefore, can never appear
| excessive to me. Rail as much as
you can against the Germans during
the war, against German Imperialism,
against the Kaiser and his mediocre
collaboration, Bethniann-Hollweg. But
Americans, who are eminently prac-
tical people, besides being a people
Of idealists, will ask you, after lis.
tening to your balance sheet on war,
for your corresponding balance sheet
| on peace.
For It is highly questionable.
whether the war has produced such
enormous damage as the peace. You
have already proclaimed that peace
| treaties were only a means for con-
tinuing war. Your thought has its
exact counterpart IN reality, for the
peace treaties have only resulted in
maintaining Europe In a state of
war which Is daily sapping and poi.
soning her very life blood.
Both Italy, in 1915, and America,
In 1917, entered the war with the
firm idea of Fastening peace, and
1t was said at the time that we
| were contributing to the rapid con.
clusion Of the war; that we were
going toward a society Of free. pro.
eressive nations. 1t was to have
been the last great war, and the
! peoples who had suffered from the
conflict were to be able to rest in
the enjoyment of a long, lasting
peace. We ourselves promised these
same thinss to the boys who died
for our safety and the glory Of their
country.
BRAND DEFINES POLICY.
On the 10th Of January. in 1918,
BRAND Of France defined the policy
Of the entente In the name of. all
the peoples adhering. The year
that marked the end of the war on
the Sth Of January, 1918, President
Wilson formulated his fourteen
points and the principles of peace
they represented. The conditions
whereon he intervened, including
equality d, between the victors and
vanquished; clear treaties Of peace;
removal of all economical barriers;
systemization Of the colonial rights
Of all parties: freedom Of the seas:
adequate guarantees to be given
and received for reducing national
armaments to the minimum per.
mitted by internal safety; the resti.
tuition OF Alsace-Lorrsine TO France
and the reconstruction of Belgium.
Now the treaty OF Versailles and
the other treaties which followed
are the most absolute denial OF
those principles. There never was
q more brutal violence. Nanauished
people have been allotted at ran
dom. or. like Austria. they have
been compelled TO live Isolated. Aus