Life — September 18, 1919 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Junior Partner: WE'VE COT TO KEEP OUR EYES OPEN IN DEALING WITH SHARPE HE'S AS SHREWD AS THEY MAKE "EM AND ABSOLUTELY UNSCRUPULOUS. Senior Partner men who were representing the peo- ples of Europe.” Some corrobora- tion of this feeling of his is found in the assertion of Sir John Foster Fraser in an article in the Sun on Lloyd George, that “it was the sagacity, and keen knowledge of affairs and men shown by the British Prime Minister at the Peace Confer- ence, which welded into actuality the hopes and ambitions of civilization.” If ever the League begins to look like a creditable performance, the Sun, the Tribune and the Villager and other hectic prints, are going to be shrewdness COULDN'T WE PERSUADE HIM TO JOIN OUR FIRM? embarrassed by the zeal with which, just now, they pin the entire credit for it onto Mr. Wilson. & thecurly wilf! FRANK SIMONDS writes M* lugubriously in the Tribune of the anxieties of France, who sees Ger- many nearly as big as ever so far as she is concerned, and likely to outgrow 501 her as before, and is looking about to see what alliances she can make for herself against the evil day when Ger- many shall have recovered her punch and got ready to go out on the road ngain Mr. Simonds says that, sia hav- ing collapsed, France must now tic up to Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Slavia and Belgium, and also, if possi- Jugo- ble, to Italy, Roumania and Greece, but latter countries is in embar- American in- with th rassed relations because flucnce has prevented their getting all they wanted in the Treaty It seems asad France. With the Great Britain and the case for operation and United States to help her if at- take League in under tacked, she with the Republican senators practicing to destroy the League and Mr. Wilson with it, she is excusable in being con- agreement might courage, but siderably ravaged with apprehensions This picture of around for continental she can fabricate into an effectual de- inst the France chasing allies whom fense recurrence of the German madness is distressing enough, and hopeless enough, and old-time enough, have an effect, one would think, even on Mr. Lodge. to a revival of the old Europe on the It points European plan, with contests of arma- ments, and in-peace-prepare: plans, and universal military service, r-war and every misery there was before the war, and all to no more avail than it was before. Surely Europe cannot go back to that wretched and futile tem. If it must face that, it might as well collapse now. sys- Germany must never go mad again. There is better business for Germans in this world than wars of acquisition. The League will protect them in efforts to find and do that business, as it will protect France against aggression far more effectually than alliances can pro- tect her. COME to Cardinal Mercier, a hero of the war as to whom there is only one opinion, that his deserts fairly outrun praise. Nothing is too good for him. He stands for right cousness and peace. comicbooks.com