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Show WHY THE WAR WAS FOUGHT TO A DECISION In a series of articles appearing in an eastern publication, ex Ambassador Baron Rosen charges that England and France were responsible for the complete collapse of Russia. "At the end ot 1917 a sufficient honorable peace could have been arranged, ar-ranged, avoiding in time the desiruc tlon of the social and economic edtice known as Europe," sas Ilaron Rosen, "bui England and France preferred to i drive on. and in their desire to com pletely annihilate the enemy nations nhey forgot they were also destroying the very structure of the European edifice, the very foundation of civilisation, civilisa-tion, whose preservation, as the I must see now to their sorrow, was infinitely in-finitely more precious than the mill lary subjugation of the whole European Euro-pean continent." Baron Rosen is wrong The allies at the end of 1917 were seeking to I make impossible a repetition of the jawful tragedies of the three years prior and they knew that to call a draw and allow Ihe mililarv minds of Germany to set about to repeat their crime of July, 1914, when they had sufficiently recuperated and prepared ,1 would be a colossal blunder which would end in slavcn. They did ex-1 ftctly as America desired. They fought on to a decision, hoping to establish a better relationship for all mankind That Russia sulfered so severely is but the price of a world made safe' for fr e peoples. It is better that Rus Bit was engulfed than that one nation should have dominated and overlords should have crushed out the soul of j common humanity. oo 1 |