Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-11-16

not in that war, yet this mandate
was taken away and given to Japan.
The Manchurians, with the philosophy
characteristic of the Yellow race,
passively resisted this outright steal
and made it difficult for Japan to
exploit that province and as we now
know Japan finally took Manchuria
by force. It established what we now
know as Manchukuo and the ami
mosities developed over that led to
the present Chino-Jap war now
going on.
Hundreds of thousands of the tur-
baned sons of India had laid down
their lives on the road to Bagdad,
at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and ter
ritory adjacent the Dardanelles in
order to maintain the sphere of in
fluence of England's imperialism.
For this they had been promised
gradual dominion independence. This
they were swindled out of and as we
now know the Indians, under the
leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, are
rebelling against British rule, and
England in this, her hour of need,
cannot maintain her congress there.
In Greece Constantine had been
driven from the throne and had to
flee. The Allies financed the Ven
izilist government on the promise
from Venizilos that the Grecian army
would help them.
A Pathetic Germany.
But the real insight, the real char
acter of men who promote wars, a
real insight into their pagan philoso-
ply can be had by studying what
they proposed for vanquished Ger
many. Here, too, was nation be-
trayed by a cowardly leadership OF
war mongers which had already fled
when defeat became imminent. And
when the war torn, tired and weary
Germans came out of four years OF
fighting, it was to return to home
land overrun by revolution, despair
and famine. A famine caused by
England's blockade maintained even
after the Armistice.
England Would Hamstring Enemies.
The most cruel and inhuman act of
the World war for these 68,0O0,0 900
Germans was the proposal to set up
slave state, encircled by a ring of
steel in order that the victorS of
war might have their pounds of flesh.
1t was proposed that for generations
German children be born into eco
nomic slavery in order for them to
pay for the sins of rulers who had
already fled and in order to enforce
PREPARATIONS it was proposed to set
up 10 puppet nations with varied
degrees of autonomy but all financed
by England and France and it was
proposed to remake the map of ID
other nations in order to completely
hamstring Germany with ring of
steel. Now these four men knew
they could not remake the map of
Europe without dislocating its peo-
piles. They knew that would cause
future wars. Orlando spoke of it
by saying, my God men, what you
are proposing will surely cause flu
ture wars" Whereupon Lloyd George
replied that he knew it would. But
that England wanted to hamstring
her enemies until those future wars
came.
When it was further proposed that
all of Germany's rivers, including
the Keil canal be internationalized,
that Germany's merchant fleet be
destroyed, that she be allowed no
tariff barriers, that three-fourths of
her iron and one-fourth of her coal
be given up for period of 20 years,
that one-fourth of her territory and
100000 of her people be given up
as well as 100000 square miles
of her territory and 100000 peo-
pie living there and that she pay
for so years, until the year 1871, at
which time she would become sub
ject to future liabilities, the sum of
$500, 100000 per year in reparations.
1t was then the soul of Woodrow
Wilson rebelled and he said, "What
you are proposing here is ungodly."
Whereupon Clemenceau, the atheist,
replied that God had nothing to
do with the deliberations of men"
"As We sow so shall We reap" and
the world of today is reaping boun-
tiful harvest from those damnable
seeds sown at Versailles. However,
the thing for we Americans to remem-
Der at this time is that no stigma at
taches to us for what happened there
and we are under no moral obliga-
tons to correct the evils of the world
of today, thanks to the caliber of
men like Senators Lodge, Knox,
Borah and Hiram Johnson and other
Senators of that day. The Senate OF
the United States refused to ratify
that treaty and we as a nation later
made a separate treaty with Ger
many, a treaty silly in many re-
spects, but not dishonorable.
Legion for National Defense.
Now the above facts and history
was in the minds of men who or
ganized the American Legion in
France and later transplanted it to
these shores, because of the fact that
we knew what we were leaving there