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Show ;l if DISPOSING OF THE GERMAN H 'jL i -' - FLEET , , H: T- it is reported that the aliies, perplexed H v by the possession of a large and power- I & f ul part of the German fleet, surrendered I fy . linder the terms of the armistice, are ? $ . about, rather than risk a division of the e , t spoils,1 to sink this immensely, valuable, k immensely powarful factor 4n mihtary Hf' ?? operations. m I"1'1. - Something inNthe average mind recoils jI s . "fromthe mere suggestion of such de- - ,,truction. Here are battleships and bat- mp ' ' tie cruisers, submarines and destroyers, ; the pride of the second navy in the world ,;! "80 long as it existed; enormous quanti-H quanti-H ? Tu ties, thus represented, of wealth, labor H n liM "and power; fighting strength lnd labpr-H labpr-H '; (.JV . ih'g strength: but because the allied na-LHb na-LHb :6V ? tions, according toxreport, fear to at-n at-n tempt a fair distribution of this wealth Hr f . of money; labor and power, they prefer r. , r ' to sink it -and thus relegate the German p iP navy to the place it would have had if p li ijvcrithadmetfthe British in full and fin-H fin-H $'' al combat " r; 4f . , The average mind does not recoil from BR such proposals of destruction. The re- K Wi port may be true or'untruei fiut enough K T remains,1 inthe average' cons9iousness of . 1. - thiptrptexititfs,'to indicate whyjhe aK LK P;4 HttawtroythUfltrathV.than H'; f VV It wpint8rih proper' hands;, a dan-1 J4L' A'gerous elii.fcof ict'poer. Se'power lvSiMvUCiidiiar Gwfct'Bntain, 'W0?.; K - '-' tic gUy irwc the power' of the ; .'At ths mot when the nations which HL ' yyfcv cau Crtrniany arebbut to' V - a K ;: ". f Europe, atth moment of glorlffca- K ?;V' fion of their conquett of Germany and P -c' i-; rf cntrai Eui thi iiaaoni'seera to K. f ' itycannot oJfar;agree1that R 'v thy majhbe able to make an equitable- H r 4HsWbuttonof the, suitendered elemente B ' H'" '& tae;Genanflet, . ; ' ; "; LK '-:- . It is not intended to press the point ir-II ir-II ,:tt mically. lt issoberly sufgesteoV'that if m i .' 'beloresitting.ofc 1 ;, ' cation,-such a questionas this involving b ': ras its'seeminglyeasiest solution the de-' Pt'I stiructiondAjyaftMd .powerful proper-ssW proper-ssW :4 & & mayiurise;ftHfir might be given pause H :-..' validity of Utopian dreams of a world un- H f . ' aerstanding" which; represented in the H:' ' ;'- ', '-league' of nations or otherwise; will make K t - - misunderstandings impossible. H. i '-JkCr - There seems to be something in human 'i .V';. nature which escapes the idealistic;doc- Hl-f'" &ire PoJilhtt ttii ia why .we bus- H ! :,; pectthat the league of nations 'Will en- H : . :'. dure during the priod of human inten- K,- W r tion to support it and will fail at the first Hjjvi f, - severe test made of it. Bj l 1 - ' Possibly also that is why we prefer the Bf ': ''iV ' United "States to be strong in its own Hj : - ' " right and not in f.he intentiora of other Hf' nations .towRrd3 11'." |