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Show H WHAT AMERICA WILL GET H There is a very ancient fable which H tells of the mountain "which after much H labor brought forth a mouse. H From all indications the story would B apply very accurately to the Paris Peace B, conference, which after the passage of M- more than five months since the armis- m tice, has given forth a pronunciamente B which has aroused dissatisfaction on e- ery side. Japan is hinting strongly as to withdrawal from the Conference because It racial equality was not embodied in the ;r covenant. France comes in for fifty bil- I lion dollars of reimbursement and it is . assigned the Saar valley, but its journals H declare that America "has gone back" on H" France. H' England is expressing its views ,by H.? threatening the overthrow of Lloyd K: George, and Italy sulks. H While the Peace Conference talks of f putting an end to all war, all Europp fa H! smoldering on the verge of flame. Ap- r j)arently the League of Nations will "pre- ; vent war" in Europe just as effectively as t Mr. Wilson "Kept America out of War." H? "' Nobody on the other side of the Ailan- , tic seems to be pleased with the, outcome v of the Peace Conference unless it be Len- k ine and Trotzky with their hordes of Bol- H, - sheviki. Br Meanwhile out of all the diplomatic B; v wrrangling. America absolutely gets only Ml . ' - .j ... "entangling alliances" against which all the fathers of the Republic, all the statesmen states-men whom this country has produced from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson down' to Theodore Roosevelt,' have given earnest and continuous warning, warn-ing, through all the 145 years of the nation's na-tion's history. A sorry offset this indeed for the nearly near-ly one hundred thousand dead boys for nearly one hundred thousand sorrowing homes to which these boys return no " more and for, the staggering debt of more than $20,000,000,000 which will burden the people of America for half a century to come. Flushing, N. Y., Daily Times. |