Evening star., 1922-11-22

oAecA get mlxeu up. 1 am not very
sure that you have not got touch
Of economic imperialism. You in
deed showed a touch of economic
Imperialism when you left US after
the war was over, directly.
| You have the best resources in
! the world-you and England. Never
theiess, you thought 1t might be good
! to insure yourself on your frontiers.
But l notice that you. having good
frontiers, when we have the worst
In the world on the German side
you got an additional guarantee by
suppressing the Anglo-Japanese al
lance, and England got a guarantee
by letting the German fleet sink in
Scapa Flow.
| Take those guarantees. be-
ileVes we are entitled to guarantees
to prevent another such invasion as
took place before. Do you think that
we want to threaten any one, do you
| think that we want to have a large
army in order to threaten any one?
Whom could we threaten? We have
| lost so many of our men, how could
we be aggressive If we wanted to?
| to feel that we will not again be In
a position such as we were in before.
And about reparations. I think
we are entitled to damages. Certain :
ly we are entitled to reparation for
| damages which the war brought on
| making.
I'VE are not looking for trouble;
we are merely seeking to put our
selves in a position where we can
be assured we will not be forced into
| another such terrible war as that
we have just been through. l think
we are entitled to that. Safety!
these new powers in Europe-they
have your thoughts and feelings. And
| If you really think that you can live
| among yourselves, get your own
produce safe from the rest of the
world and do just as you please, that
| is not what you said in 1875.
Il do not want to speak badly OF the
Monroe doctrine. 1t did good. But you
are wrong, and the policy of an old
man is not the policy Of child.
European Situation Today.
Now. my friends, do not blame
you. Let the past remain the past.
We may see what the situation in
Europe is today. The war Of four
years which wrought the greatest
damage ever known in Europe is over.
The treaty which is to establish the
new order of things Is not executed.
What Is to be done? You see where
Germany Is now. Germany began by
not executing the conditions of the
treaty. 1 am very sorry to say that
the powers, under the pressure of
England, accept 1t and give up most
Of what we had gained by the treaty.
Is 1t very extraordinary that Germany
took advantage of that?
THAT was the beginning. Then we
of victory. and the German finance
minister said We are going to strike
out the line reparations.'
do you know that they are manu-
featuring cannons by the hundreds.
that they are making machinery
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pays, let's say. $14-the French s43.
There is line in the treaty that says
Germany will have to pay as high as
the allies and all the rest.
what are they preparing? I tell
you plainly. as l told Lloyd George
war again. Don't you see what is
going on? Don't you read the paper?
Why, haven't you heard of the treaty
between the Turks and the Germans
and the Russians?
Now. 1 say that Gen. Ludendorf
and Hindenberg are preparing war,
civil war. to crush the German
democracy. If they can. Have you
forgotten what the Prussians did
after Jena, how with $4,000 men. they
brought Napoleon down? Now, it is
the same game. 1t is written. No
body can deny it.
Now I must tell you what I want.
I don't want to bring any friction
between your country and my coun-
try. / don't want you to do something
that would put civilization in danger
under circumstances that might be
guaranteed a good frontier. England
promised 1t. We haven't received it.
Lloyd George said that America
| had made the same promise and had
also not kept it. so he wasn't to
blame exclusively. 1 respectfully ask
y l., l.
taken The facts are these:
One day l told Mr. Lloyd George
| 1 wanted the Rhine, and l gave him a
paper in which all my reasons were
described. He told me. If you leave
the Rhine. will bring you other
my best with Mr. Wilson to obtain
| the same thing from him. Mr.. Will
son very wisely said that he was will
ing to agree, but, of course, it was
all subject to the acceptance of Con-
gress.
Britain's Unkept Promise.
So it was with Great Britain. But
the fact that the United States didn't
follow doesn't mean that the promise
should not have been kept Do you
suppose that because our allies didn't
keep that promise we are going to
leave our frontiers open? No! No.
That we never did.
I'VE know that America interests
herself in what happens in other
countries. But it is not in your power
to live happy, contented and wealthy
in America If you know that much of
the rest of the world is suffering.
If you could have faith and simply
say, Let US establish a plan of what
is to be done and. when we have
established it, it should take into
consideration guarantees
1.-The moment this is done it will
do much to restore things to more
normal state. And 1 know that you
will not be content to remain aloot
and let many of the people in Europe
suffer when you have so much.
Il do not want you to run any risk.
You don't run any. Now there re-
mains the question of safety. 1 do
not want safety. l do not ask for it.
But don't you think if the frontier is
protected on our side, you know the
result would be a protection for Ger
many"
IF we are sure that Germany can
rot attack US. she is sure that we
won't attack her without letting all
our friends go, which We are not go
ing to do. When at the end of the
war I was asked in the house of
representatives in Paris. What will
be your policy after peace is nader
I answered, The same as in war; re-
main with England and America, just
as united as in war;
$50 If you find some way-I don't