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Show 0 Single copies, 5 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake of March 8, 1879. Act City, Utah, under the Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409. Published Every 8aturday BY G00DWINf8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: in United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $240 per year, the Including postage $145 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $3.50 per year. 811-12-- 18 GREYS SECRET MISSION IS A FAILURE EDWARD GREY, British ambassador to the United States, SIR our shores profoundly disappointed that he is unable to carry out his mission. He came to this country a few months ago with a mysterious mandate from his government. We obtained a hint of its purport in the early dispatches concerning his selection as ambassador. We were told that the new relations between Great Britain and the United States made it necessary to send to us as an envoy the statesman who had been at the head of the foreign office when the entente cordiale was agreed upon and who, in fact, had shaped all of the British governments foreign policy into the form it had at the outbreak of the world war. Sir Edward Grey, if we may venture a guess, was really the British representative to handle all the negotiations between London and Washington with reference to the military and financial alliance of the United States and Great Britain,. an alliance which would come into being as soon as the treaty of peace should be ratified without reservations. When it became apparent, if we may be permitted to continue the conjecture, that the heart of the covenant was to be cut out and that the offensive and defensive alliance would not be established, Sir Edward Grey saw that his occupation was gone. He alhad hoped to crown his lifes work by perfecting an Anglo-Saxo- n liance and doing what he could to repair the blunders of George III that lost the American colonies to the British crown. It was a grandiose conception that might well have fired the brain and heart of an even colder English gentleman than Sir Edward. It 0 looked to the control of the earth by Great Britain and the United States. By Article X of the covenant each was to guarantee the territories and political independence of the others. We were to guarantee India, Egypt, Ireland, Canada and Australia to the British crown and the British empire was to guarantee us against the unknown. More than that, we were to guarantee the ultimate solvency of the British empire and were to furnish all the funds necessary to refinance Europe and make it possible for Great Britain to collect her debts. With the League of Nations functioning as a war power, holding subject nations in awe and stablizing and standardizing despotism throughout the earth, Great Britain and the United States, led by those two English gentlemen, Woodrow Wilson and Edward Grey, .fovere to usher. in an era of imperialistic peace like the Pax Romana in the age of Augustus. It was nothing more or less than an attempt to realize the dream of empire which had lured the kaiser to was to rule the world Instead of the Teuton the Anglo-Saxo- n . his fall. by might. Great Britain was to supply the imperialism and we were to supply the backing. And the world was to obey. Israel Zangwill takes the view that the President was deceived. Lured on by his dream (Zangwill is alluding to what he calls the League of Damnations) and fooled to the top of his bent, Wilson sold the peace in exchange for the League of Nations. And the League of Nations that was palmed off on him is merely a device for guaranteeing the injustices of the peace treaty and eternalizing them. Both as a bargainer and an apostle the President suffered defeat. Whether the President was deceived or not he entered into a covenant which allied the strongest military power in the world the United States with the greatest naval power in the world to enforce a tyrannous peace. We are not thinking of the punitive terms imposed upon the Teuton malefactors, but of Shantung, Ireland, India, Persia and the subject peoples of Asia Minor, Africa and the isles of the seas. The world was to be organized into a great commercial company and all peoples were to pay the ruling powers. In return they were to receive the boon of peace and good order enforced by the armies and navies of Great Britain and the United States. Vermore than libsailles decided that the world needed a straight-jackerty and the American people were asked to forsake their ancient standards and guarantee to keep the world in a straight-jacke- t. If President Wilson was deceived at Paris, he has not yet been disillusioned. He still demands the ratification of the peace treaty without reservations. He refuses to compromise, for compromise would mean the destruction of the grand scheme for the regulation of the world. His idea of a peaceful world is a world held in subjection by military and naval might and boycott blockades. Paragraph 5 of Article XXII of the covenant reads : Other peoples, especially those of Central Africa, are at such a stage that the mandatary must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience or religion subject only to the maintenance of public order or morals, the prohibition of abuses, such as the slave trade, TI1L ARMS TRAFFIC, and the prevention of the ESTABLISHMENT OF FORTIFICATIONS OR MILITARY OR NAVAL BASES and of military training of. the natives for OTHER THAN POLICE PURPOSES AND THE DEFENSE OF TERRITORY, and will secure equal opof the portunities for the trade and commerce of other members et . league. . The natives were to be denied the training and the arms necesfor sary to attain freedom, but were to be trained and armed to fight their masters. We are not questioning the lofty motives of Sir Edward Grey and those of His confreres who, years ago, prepared the way for this kind |