The Washington times., 1922-04-01
British Greed and Amer
lean Prosperity

cations of people in India by British soldiers the
seizure and monopoizaton of all the economic
of the Thbet province of China Or the acquisition of
large part of Africa with its n ompanyng brutaltes,
think their interest is only OF general humanity.
| There never notion ill-founded There is
not a movement in the world which threatens American
prosperity much the recent extensions of the British
Empire which have resulted from the shrewd sefshness
of British craftsmanship the ignorance and the snob
bish servlty of representatives at Paris and Wash
ington.
Concerning this subject so vital to America, disn-
guished citizen of the United States Edward A. Flene
of Boston, has given something very serious indeed,
to think about. 80
Great Britain according to Mr.. Filene, has in the
hundred years acquired twentyegt per cent of the
earths surface and than twenty-five per cent of the
earth's population by very simple process.
Her insuar position gives her safety from attack by
land She is free from the necessity of maintaining great
standing armies, which drain the economic life Of
country so terribly.
There is no nation in Europe able to maintain both
great standing army and great navy
standing army is more vital to a nation on the
continent than navy because nation cannot conquer
another by superiority the sea, but conquer it by
superiority on the land that all the nations the
continent of Europe obliged to treat their naves
secondary considerations.
The armies necessarily their first lines of defense
On the other hand Great Brtans first line of defense is
her navy If she has the most powerful navy in the world
she is perfectly safe from attack by army.
That enables her to have the greatest in the world
and to this great advantage which her insuar position
has given her. she has added perfectly simple
cold blooded diplomatic program. -.
Whenever she finds nation rising to such unusual
strength that its Importance the is getting to rival
hers she always waits until that nation Is the eve OF
a quarrel with other nation of nearly equal re-
sources and then she makes combination against her
rival power
Then while her allies and her enemy cutting each
others threats, Great Britain takes advantage of their
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In this she kept the entire continent of Europe
at against France from 1889 to 1875 and in the
meantime she succeeded in getting all of France colonies
And during the recent with Germany she seized
nearly all the German colonies and practically all the
unoccuped undeveoped parts of the world where the
natural have been untouched where the crowded
white world, depending upon manufacturing the raw
materials into finished articles, must go for their
materials
The white nations of the world cannot live without
manufacturing, and that means that they cannot live
without the material which comes from the
developed parts of the world which Great Britain has
largely monopolized.
Mr. Fene recalls to mind the fact that the British
had destroyed tin manufacturing industry by shut
ting off from manufacturers the supply of mate
rial which from the British possessions in the Malay
peninsula Already important raw materials for our
manufacturers being cut off in British West Africa
and an export tax certain kinds of cotton in Egypt
and wool in Australia threatens destroy the American
manufacture OF hgh-grade cotton and WOOL which has
lust begun to compete with English manufactures.
In order to protect English tanners export tax
placed hides and skins from India, Egypt and South
Africa.
But the most disgusting and dscouragng thing of all
is the story of the taking of the island of Narau from
Germany and giving to Great Britain under socaled
mandate .N
The island of Narau, in the Pacific ocean, contains
the richest deposit of phosphate for ferzng that is
known in the world. When Germany had it she made
distinction between the other nations and herself in the
purchase of these wonderfully rich deposits of phosphate
But that England has obtained it through the
impraccality and susceptible vanity of Woodrow Wilson
she is monopozing it for her private benefit and
that of Australia and New Zealand
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