The Washington herald., 1922-12-28
"For am the Lord that bringeth you up out Of the
England, France
and EHr0pe's Peril

EORMER PREMIER CLEMENCEAU has charged that
il Germany is plotting war in alliance with Russia.
Behind Russia and Germany he says there is also the
of Turkey Backed by Bolshe he sees in
such combination peril the peace of the world
against which Western Europe would be helpless and
blockade futile.
The story comes from London There the Daily Mail
trying the British Government to the danger of
these German plottings."
did not take the clairvoyance of NJ Cemenceau of the
London Daily Mail to forsee such CONSPIRACY Ever since
the signatures put the Treaty of Versailles the stupid
policy of France and the almost equally stupid policy OF Great
Britain have been daily driving Germany and Russia together
and making not only possible but almost certain close alliance
between Germany, Russia and Turkey.
Both France and Great Britain have sought to convert the
victory Germany into empires for themselves They
have brushed aside all the humanitarian proestaons they
made during the all the high ideals which they pretended
to espouse when that prense necessary to induce the
United States to rescue them from defeat.
Now neither France Great Britain is willing to
ber those ideals The statesmen of both countries refuse to
be hampered by them. Brtans program is Conquest and
Power Frances cry is Conquest and Revenge"
To carry out her program, Britain has not hestated to
lead her former ally Greece into the ambuscade of Turkish
and to make commercial against her former associate
America
To carry out the program of France the statesmen at
Paris have planned the ruin of helpless Germany the
starvation of her people.
And these vicious potngs the politicians of both nations
have sought the support of the United States They have
faedtaled people OF this
the baseness of that conspiracy better than their
own leaders saw it.
There is in nveighng against the wickedness of
Germany of Russia, of Turkey. If the leaders of
France and the newspapers of England want their
countries from the which confronts the peace
Europe they should lift their against the policies
mtarstc aggression extoron and oppression which
driving Germany and Russia well Turkey into combining
for sef-defense
Teutonc Germany Slavic Russia and Mohammedan Turkey
have little in in race, creed culture Left alone
they probably would find small basis for united action
But the politicians west of the Rhine giving them that
impetus to all aiance-a foe And that foe is
this ordinary enemy, but impacabe that
modified against helpless and children all the
terrors of Famine Pestlence and Death.
Nobody preends that the Turks gentle
SOULS that Russia has found ideal form of democratic
ernmen that the Germans not time the ex-
ponens of the very kind of offensive mtars which France
is practising
But it is time to point out the folly of policy the part
of France and England which uniting Germany Russia
and Turkey into alliance for protection against the greed
| and aggression of these two Western Powers.
1t time that the people of France and England strike the
alarm and the leaders to whom they have ntrusted
their Governments them the peris which they are
II inviting by their reckless policies
Winter is at hand The hardshps of the next few weeks
may cement the Turkish alliance by deaths
II from hunger and cold.
Once alliance has reached that stage will too late
turn back the clock The march of such nexorabe
Once that alliance welded by sacrifice as we'll
fear it be strong enough only to
tec Germany Russia and Turkey against the mperasts and
marists of London and of Paris but retaae upon
them for the injustice that has been wrought under the Treaty