THE ALTERNATIVES
We cannot- have it both ways (writes (he Philadelphia ‘Public Ledger’ on the peace terras). If we make what Marshal Foch frankly terms “a peace by victors,” which plants au irritating thorn in the side of the largest race in Central Europe, wc must expect the natural, human, inevitable cotisc(iuences of such a policy. That is, if France Hikes the left bank of the Rhine she certainly will need it, and likely a lot more, to s.'ilocuard her from “the menace ” of the “ seventy million Germans,” with a possible Russian'ally behind them. But if she docs not take it—if she makes a peace which is not provocative, whatever might bo said for her moral right to impose it now on that trapped criminal, military Germany—then she should and will have behind her the moral sense of the world; and it has just been demonstrated over again that that moral sense is in the long run invincible.
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Evening Star, Issue 17079, 25 June 1919, Page 3
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158THE ALTERNATIVES Evening Star, Issue 17079, 25 June 1919, Page 3
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