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Show WORK INCOMPLETE. Winston Churchill, writing in a London Lon-don newspaper, observes that the worst thing in the world is to lose a great war; the next worst thing is to win a great war. Churchill has in mind the central powers and Russia. Victors forget quickly; the vanquished remember. remem-ber. The allies already seem disposed, dis-posed, many of them, to forget the sacrifices sac-rifices entailed by the world war and to have profited little by the lesson to be learned from that gigantic struggle. Thus several of them can be found even now squabbling over territorial terri-torial boundaries; still others are divided divid-ed in opinion concerning measures to insure in-sure true world against a recurrence of the holocaust which swept through Europe Eu-rope for four long years. But it is not all likely that Germany Ger-many will forget or that Kussia will not remember. Both are likely to keep in mind what happened in the great war and both are unlikely to be content con-tent with the position in which they find themselves. Churchill concludes that -"it is not good policy to cut off Germany from ail trade in western Europe and leave her no means of development and recovery except in the east." For if Germany turns to Itus-sia Itus-sia she will find everything she requires re-quires not only for the recovery of her economic strength but political power. And Germany just now is very busy exploiting such sections of Russia as a sympathetic soviet is opening to Teuton Teu-ton trade. Kecently there have come from continental con-tinental capitals dispatches indicating indicat-ing a rapprochement between Russia and Germany; by Russia is meant, of course, the Russian region controlled by the red government of Leuine and Trotzky. The soviet has been proceeding pro-ceeding on the assumption that it has to choose between Germany and Germany Ger-many 's enemies, also the enemies of soviet Russia. If Germany and Russia Rus-sia make common cause either in the former reactionary monarchial governments govern-ments or that of the quasi-communistic despotism, all the dangers which threatened the yeaee of tho world and led to the explosion of 1914 will reproduce re-produce themselves. The statesmanship which evolved the idea of a league of nations still has a heap of work to do in making sure that this coalition does not eventuate. A trade policy which drives Germany into a bargain with Russia would be a mighty good thing for the Germans. It contemplates a dangerous situation in the future for the rest of the world. |