Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-11-02
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/ T6dlIZG InaC TOT three VEGAS JflOf 10
the signing of the armistice at
Mudania the world was standing on
the brink of another war. And it is
the judgment of these men that if war
had come it would have been as wide
/ spread as the recent World war, and
more horrible The danger point seems
to have been passed, and for this the
! authorities here, not to speak of the
heads of governments in Europe, are
expressing gratitude.
rs it any wonder that the President
and his secretary of state have let it
be known within the last week that
! the government is once more giving
/ serious consideration to what II should
/ do to help make permanent peace more
/ certain?" said one spokesman for the
administration. And the same author
! ity remarked that it is not to be
thought strange that millions of peo-
pie in the United States are asking
how much longer this government In
tends to pursue a policy of ISOLATION
i a policy which does not extend help to
the Il nations that are trying as best
they can to establish and preserve
peace, in the world.
Many of the communications that
are being received here in high official
quarters lay stress on the point that
the people are in the dark as to the
future foreign policy of the United
States. There is call for light.
Mccall Praises Greece.
Here is what former Gov Samuel w.
Mccall of Massachusetts, in politics
Republican, says about it:
'eThe curtain has not yet gone down
on that stupendous tragedy that be-
gan eight years ago. One result Of the
| World war that caused all Christen-
dom to rejoice was that the Turk was
driven out Of Europe Yet today we
see Turkey defiantly issuing an ulti-
matum to her former cOnquerors and
demanding again to be an European
power. All honor to that little hero
nation in the eastern Mediterranean
which for three years bore the burden
put upon her. by the allies and strug-
gled to save Asia Minor from becom-
ing another Armenia. Greece was
summoned into danger and then be-
trayed by those whose battles she was
fighting.
"She stood as she stood at Their
mopylae and at Salamis for western
as against Asiatic civilization, and al
though she was at last overwhelmed
by a cruel foe, and thousands of
Christians as a result were murdered
she towers today far above those who
betrayed her. The nations who have
been and are in an unspeakable ALI
ance with the unspeakable Turk have
forfeited all claim to the good will of
America.
"The war ended only four years ago
and yet we are already forgetting. 1t
was a war so vast and made so hor-
rible by all the resources of eciviliza-
ton that all agreed that it was the
first duty Of the world to make
repetition of it impossible. Since that
time invention has prepared the way
for more frightful horrors and has
put new poison gases and other deadly
resources at the service of the devil.
1.-THE short cut to the obliteration of
civilization is to have another world
war. Either war will destroy the race
or the race must destroy war. What
are we going to do about it? Are we
to rely upon the isolated and spas
modic action of the divided nations
upon a question in which all have the
common interest Of self-preservation?
/ know the isolated action of great
nation can accomplish much, especially
if it is action that means business.
And amid that welter of international
anarchy that holds sway beyond the
Dardanelles and threatens to engulf
Europe, the one word of hope for the
world was spoken by the clear and
mighty voice Of England.
What Fias America Done?
"But beyond some pious ohserva-
tons. what has the Upited States done?
And yet we could air lost see the burn
ing of Smyrna, could almost hear the
groans and shrieks. Many of the vic
tins were our fellow countrymen.
What is the use of a nations being
great and strong if it shall not sternly
raise its voice, backed by its power, to
prevent such infamies?
"Shall we enter the existing League
of Nations, or a league with reserva-
tons. or the association of nations
which Mr.. Harding foresaw, but which
to the rest of US has thus far been
visible only to the eye of faith, or
shall we go it alone?"
When a publicist like former Gov
ernor Mccall asserts that "either war
will destroy the race or the race must
destroy war;" men and women who
think are likely to take notice. Moth
ing may come Of the present agitation
throughout the country for more light
as to what the present administration
intends to do about the world situa-
ton, but is should be recorded at this
time that the officials here are taking
the situation very seriously.