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Show COMIC STATECRAFT What grotesque spectres of peril for Europe the Ger-i Ger-i man statesman can conjure up when he wishes to impress ,his people with the necessity of fighting to a finish! j Count Von Hertling, the Bavarian premier, declares : that if the entente wins America will step into England's place and that the issue has become America against Europe Eur-ope through the fault of the entente. Just what the premier means it will be difficult for Americans to conjecture. Perhaps we might be inclined I to assume the antagonistic role which he suggests if we but knew the nature of the role. America against Eur- ope has no rational significance, and yet the Germans to whom Count von Hertling addressed himself are prepared prepar-ed to put faith in any of the bugaboos that official fantasy fan-tasy can devise. It is not so long since Teutonic statesmen were forecasting fore-casting the era of the yellow race against the white That too, was the fault of the entente, we were told. Because the entente would not submit to German domination and I make peace on the most unfavorable terms, the entente must needs be accused of so weakening European civiliz-lation civiliz-lation that eventually it would be unable to resist invading invad-ing hordes from Asia. And tho statesmen who professed to fear the subjection of the whites to the Asiatics were , the same statesmen who wore offering parts of the United Unit-ed btates to Japan as remuneration for Japanese aid to Germany. Utah was one of tho states that was to be handed over to Nipponese domination. This sniveling hypocrisy would arouse our fury if we emn?SZrhir "ir Ul' but .the Teutonic statesman' 3 at Mnchijiyolhan cunning are so comically obvi-ous obvi-ous that only laughter is possible.-Salt Lake Tribune |