New Ulm review., 1922-08-02

of US, can prosper permanently only by
a raconciled Europe. In the end she
will discover that Europe will no more
consent to live under the military
dictatorship Of France than it con-
sented to live under the military
dictatorship Of Prussia.
1t is necessary to say this as much
in the interests of France as.in that OF
Britain. There can be no greater dis
service to France, no greater menace
to the friendly relations with it which
every sane Englishman desires to pre-
serve, than to keep silence on this
great matter. Facts are indisputa BILE
things. The longer they are ignored
and suppressed, the heavier is the
ultimate reckoning. And the fact
that is being burned into the mind Of
the British people is that their own ex-
istence is being bled white by a policy
which makes the restoration Of peace
in Europe hopeless.
Is this denied? Consider what that
policy is and what it has achieved.
1t has two aspects-poitical and e.
conomic. Let us look at the political
motive first. NJ. Poincare conceiv-
ed Europe divided into two elements,
one disarmed and the other armed to
the teeth; one enslaved and exploited,
the other riding roughshod over its
victims. Germany is too occupied
and dismeinbered and kept in perma-
nent servitude, and Russia is to be re-
duced to submission and administer
ed under the authority Of French
arms. The accomplishment of this
astounding policy has gone far. In
the fourth year of the peace France
stands over the wreck Of Europe more
supreme in military sense than Ma
polean was atthe height of his power.
She has refused to discuss disarma-
ment for herself, and keeps in being
an army of 100000 men, with a po-
tential army Of more than half a mil
lion Africans in reserve (many Of them
in Germany. She controls practi-
cally the whole OF the armament fac
tories in Europe, including the great
Skoda works of Austria.
She has refused to discuss repara-
tions, whether at Spa or Genoa, in
order that her determination to occu-
py the Ruhr coalfeld may not be in
terfered with. She signed secret
treaty with Belgium which has made
that country tool in her hands. She
has established great military block
houses, like Poland, over central Eu-
rope to keep the disarmed subject
peoples under the terror of her sword.
Her military missions swarm over the
Continent, and her propagandists,
frankly anti-British in their message,
are found in every country from Tur-
key to the United States. We have
had the revelation of her secret nego-
tiatsons with Turkey and we have
heard her amazing proposals at Wash
ington in regard to submarines
proposals which, as Mr.. Balfour told
her, could be directed only against
ourselves.
Are these things true? Everyone
knows they are true. The North
c!ife Press knows they are true.
France is building up hegemony of
Europe before our eyes unlike any
thing that has ever existed in Euro
pean history. Are the British to go
on pretending that they do not know
anything about it, or that, knowing
about it, they do not much care?
Let us turn to the economic side.
The truth here, familiar enough to
everybody who does not read the
Suppress newspapers, has been start
lingly Illuminated in the last few days
by two French writer's in the Nev
York World-M. Francois Delaise
and NJ. Pierrpont Noyes. M. Poin-
care is not only clever and very dan
gerous Bismarckian politician; he is
also a lawyer who for twenty years
was the legal agent Of the most power
full financial and industrial groups in
France, including the Iron Combine,
dominated by Mr.. Schneider of the
Creusot ornaments work, the Coal
Combine, the Chemical Combine and
the Schneider Bank. These great fl
nancial interests control large part
OF the Paris press, which, as every
journalist knows, has a very peculiar
way of earning q living. It is these
interests that sent M. Poincare to the
Presidency in 1913 and it is these in
terests which have been behind him.
ever since. Why have they been be-
hind him? Because the peculiar con-.
ditions Of their industry make it nee
essary that thew should control the