The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-21
The Nations That Would Live
by the Sword Will Perish
by the Sword

The motives of the French secretly encouraging
Turks oppose the British are self-evident
The French plan to make such serious trouble for
England in Asia Minor Egypt and India that England could
oppose the French invasion Of Germany and the annexation
Of the German coal iron and manufacturing region.
Together with this the French knew that Russia tied
fast with the Turks and that in Of between Turkey
and England the Russian armies would be busy the East
to Germany protection against French invasion and
gpoliation
The whole plan was deprive German republic any
possible outside aid while France pundered and appropr
Such is the way in which the world has been gloriousy
made safe for democracy and the rule Of right been subs
tued for the rule of might by the and unseih
allies.
could have done stayed out of the aboinable
and let the Germans win the war:
Of course French miarism is destroying France fast
destroys Germany Anybody with an ounce Of common
sense could predict that
slid one third the to the bottom in week In it
WI ne IN class with the German mark And long before
that France will be bankrupt in actually not noinAl
The British far better fnancers and world traders than
are the French who nation Of small shopkeepers The
French notion that they compel German miners produce
coal at miserable and then undersen England in the
worlds market and millions from their forcbe seizure
Of German territory is characteristic Of the French politicians
minds Who touches Engands coal and iron and carrying
trade with the continent OF Europe touches Engands vital
nerves and will bring wareconomic and eventually military
inevitable result
The temper of the British people is being thoroughly
aroused and when the interests Of bankers
spowners and employers and employees alike coincide with
enmity that France has bred in England then viii
have her hands which only end in her defeat
should result in combining France to her proper restricted
sition in European affairs :.
Europe will have stable peace long as France
with less than forty million people, aspres rule Eu-
by the bayonet and dominate the political
economic affairs of four hundred millions Of other Eu-
yopeans.
No nation has any moral political right to
exercise hegemony Europe
The French have right to do that than had the
Germans
No nation has any right whatever dominate
OF any other nation.
The French have moral political economic
to dominate France had the Germans the
not have the moral courage and force insist upon just and
righteous treaty that would have prevented such fatal effort
as that which French militarism is making
So we won the for France, and then Europe lost
the because the French left free make Of
of the Fourteen Points Of the Of the Aristice
and Of sounding declaration and pledge the allies
gave when they were crying to us for help.
With ALL the German people absolutely at
the of the French army And with characteristic
French swagger helpless and darmed foe Germany
viii be subjected to military domination military insoence
military insult and the ourages Of black African savaes in
French uniform long the public opinion Of the world
will endure the spectacle else the suffering and despang
German millions will turn to Russia and Turkey and overthrow
French tyranny and French military occupation in gigantic
Red revolution
From any point of that sensible occupy the
Poncare attempt revive the Napoleon ideal sheer madness
Either victory defeat the effort to make Paris the
OF European with French bayonets erong the
rest Of Europe will eventually ruin France forever
Yet little while and shall how inevitably the nation
that resolves to live by the sword will perish by the sword