The Washington times., 1938-10-06
Revenges of Clemenceau


w dsmemberment of small country by big one,
and the democratic part of the world is in a ter
rble state of jitters.
It being said that one of the great crimes of history
has been committed; that Czechoslovaka entitled
to the perfect life; that her soil is sacred and should
have remained untouched.
We now must make prophecy: The world should
accustom itself to the tters for there will be lot more
dismembermens in the next few years, with without
bIoodshed Candidy, don't think it's such bad thing
If Europe is going to settle down. it won't occur
until the worst minortes problems have been resolved
80 that some sort of United States of Europe
into being along the lines of the old Holy Roman Empire
of the Napoeonic Empire.
There is no sensible reason why the traveller in Europe
must go through frontier every 100 miles, paying
new customs duties, buying new postage stamps,
changing his money and attempt
What IF We ing to talk different language
Hud " Horo9 or dialect. We clearly
what would happen in our own
country if every State independent Instead of
being moderately we'll off, would be poor, suspicious
and warlike.
Back Of the treaties of Versailles Trianon and St. Ger
main stood the figure of old Clemenceau The most
consuming feeling in his heart of hatred. He
wanted to weaken Germany forever; or long he
could do by armed force He wanted revenge and ne
got it. 1t lasted twenty years He took away Germanys
soldiers and England took away her He took away
the coal and iron in Alsace-Lorrane He chopped Aus
tria Hungary to pieces and weakened her component
parts far possible.
He enlarged Jugoslavia so that it would contain
than Serbs Rumania it would contain more than Ru-
manans; created Czechoslovakia and pared Austria
down to one huge city and miles of barren Alps cut down
Hungary and Bulgaria, and made sure that all these
states would contain discontented minorities
He didn't forgive Russia for running out the Allies.
The little Baltic states such Latva Esona Lthuania
and Finland were up to Russia off from the Baltic
save at the mediocre port of Lenin-
Wilson Was grad He re-established Poland, with
01ckod In a corridor through Germany to lntlame
the Prussians. He did complete job
of remaking the map of Europe. Woodrow Wilson was
sucked in to make the job look pious
Now the Germans are simply rewriting the treaties.
There is no use kidding ourselves They do it, be-
cause of that isn't often mentioned Frankly it
is the failure of the French lons.
The French population is not increasing; it would be
decreasing for Italian immigration into the southern
provinces The population of Germany is increasing,
is that of Russia.
The Germans have started rewriting the treaties 1t
is certain the Russians will also do when they get
ready reseizing the territories taken away by Ceen
ceau Lloyd George and Wilson, Is that so terrible? The
fact is that nature economic law whatever term you
choose has been at work for hundreds of years in Europe
consolidating little duchies and tiny, uneconomc king
doms into bigger and better countries
Ceenceau tried to reverse these processes He failed
The question is: How much blood has to be shed
to erase or rewrte the treaties of Versailles Tranon and
St. German?
There are going to be lot of yells from the small
inores every time they forcby taken apart, but
the process is going to go on.
We can't stop it, if we tried to, and shouldn't