Life — November 21, 1918 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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German prisoners held by the Alli shall be retained until further notice. What terms! What terms! Alsace and Lorraine recovered! Germans to retire to the Rhine, and for a conven’ ent distance beyond it! Bridgehead on the Rhine to be delivered to- the Allies!) Great numbers of guns to be turned over; also of submarines, war- ships and aeroplanes! Belgium, France, Luxemburg to be evacuated, of course, and also Russia, Rumania and Turkey, and the Russian treaties to be aba doned! These are only the more im- portant of the thirty-five details of submission to which the German rep- resentatives have had to agree to buy a respite from attack. Certainly Ger- many is flat on her back. No delusions about that can be left to her. VOL. 72 NOVEMBER 21, 1915 No. 1882 “While there is Life there's Hope"* Published by PUBLISHING COMPANY A. Minter, Sec'y and Treas, 17 West Thisty-first Street, New York Bldgs., London, E. C. LIF! English Offices, Rolls House, Brea 7 HE w ew-eocos00! Pe vell, Fader, T vot baft ya hain't. won, pot done (7) jumped off 1 ‘te shorten der dock, Al is over i ? cis'var? but the shout- mistice do not include everything that the Allies wanted, it was because they forget to put it in. Acceptance came from a beaten government, whose time ing, ‘and prog- ress has been made with that. To be sure, there are details to come, and some of them may be obstructive, and there are possibilities of things turn- ing up that may encourage some of the Germans to throw new fits, but nothing of that sort can alter the great forth- standing fact that the war we went into is done. If there are driblets of hostilities to come, and if they should swell into a serious revolutionary fra- cas, that would be a new war. remarked in the observations an this page last week that the writing was Monday () in Anything-May-Happen Now, a week later, everythin: On Tuesday, the Presi- Cent, triumphant in war, was beaten, in ovem- has happened in the elections; on Thursday I the fake peace and a celebra- and early on Monday morning the Germans signed the armistice and the war, as we all believe, was over. The German cities have been popping off dcracy like a pack of fire-crack- ers, The late Kaiser has quit and run for , taking with kim the Prince, collection of 1 for der it to Crown and a Lighted military masters from the Ger- al Staff. The jig is up; the Lubble has burst; the fat is in the fire The President has read the terms of man Gene the armistice to Congress, and pending an opinion from Oyster Bay, there is general agreement with Mr. Wilson's words that, “the object of the war is attained with a swee Ieteness which even now we do not realize.” Certainly if the conditions of the ar- had come, and from a_ thoroughly beaten people who knew they had noth- ing more to hope for from war. It is a thorough job, and that is what most of us wanted. Even the army will be satisfied—the army that strained and panted to get into Ger- many and make it look like an illustra- tion of what the Germans had done in France. vel, anyvay, 5 I'm der greatest UT the calmer judges, even among Frenchmen, were not eager to have the war carried onto German soil. Ger- many will have to pay enormous dam- es in money, and perhaps in labor, and the harder heads in France to which the bulk of those damages will go, did not wish the German capacity to make reparation to be too much impaired. The purpose of the German destruc tion in France and Belgium was to crush the spirit of those countries by “frightfulness.” It is not necessary to crush the spirit of the Gerr such means, It has been done hy f hhting. Neither docs destruction of life and property in the mass strike the French intelligence as an expedi- ent punishment for barbarities done by others than the persons punished. It is preferred that amends should be made as far as possible, and the armis- tice terms provide for that, and also that while all prisoners of war held in Germany shall be returned at once, uns by any But really the Germans are in luck. The best thing that could happen to them has happened. The only hope of cure for them was in a tremendous licking, and they have had it. For forty years while they have scemed to themselves to be mounting the heights of glory, they have been going steadily down hill, getting greedier, stupider and more brutish every year, losing more and more the power of indepen dent thought, and spiritual vision. It was the simple and absolute truth that Dr. Muehlon, once of Krupp’s, said to Mr. Barron in Switzerland two months ‘he hope for my country in this war and in the future is her defeat by aims. * * * The peril of the hour is that the Allies may become kind and humane, and extend the hand of pathy before Germany is ready fess the wrongs she had done and make restitution. The greatest possible dis- aster that could come to Germany to escape responsibility.” Judging from the armistice terms, the danger of that disaster is by way of being averted ITH the armistice signed, the Kai- ser in Holland and the war over, it will seem to most observers, particu- larly in Europe, that Mr. Wilson’s po- litical offensive has been fairly success- ful. Oyster Bay and Mr. Lodge and Chairman Hays and their representa- tive friends may vociferate that Mar- comicbooks.com