Show FRANCE AMERICA AND YELLOW PERIL Through Ero Ere Nouville a paper recognized r as the mouthpiece of at Joseph a proposal has I been made to leave have France cede the tho West Indies to the United States Stales in part payment of Frances France's war debt Frances France's possessions in inthe Inthe inthe the Pacific would go to Great Britain for tor the tho same purpose The The Idea is 16 not without merit Fiance financially is not In a position position tion to meet those war obligations unless uJ some such method Is adopt adopt- ed America can well eU afford to deal leniently for the debt was Incur Incur- Incurred Incurred incurred red in a common cause causo in which America made no contribution com corn comparable parable with that made by either France or Great Britain Those countries gave gae of ot their blood until It made a mighty stream and their vitality was sapped America did its ita full fuU share when the call came but in balancing accounts some fome thought should be given to the con con- conflict conI I filet as a whole In ad a reason why America should have the French possessions po In the Pacific the French paper says Vo Wo have bave distant colonies which bring in trouble now and worries for the tho future At the zero hour fixed by the tho yellow race ace on one on side and the Americans on tho the theother other side those these possessions could be bl taken away from us without striking a 8 blow since we decided at Washington to accept a 1 second rato navy The events in China provo prove that anything is possible in Ue tle Far East and the Americans who ho have tremendous power num- num and riches need a base baBe of ot op op- operations operations op- op operations there at least commer commer- cial cid That is a most significant state state- statement statement ment moot as it Is the tho recognition of ot a comin clash In which America will be required to meet the yellow ellow peril It would prove pro alarming if It the time of at action were not In Indefinitely in in- indefinitely definitely in the future 0 |