Caption: Convocation - 1921 (Armistice Day)
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oui own. a ,1 immci! itch 11 s at I- < " The Japanese army, includin ill men train* I < > \ , \ available for modern vvarfan * >mr five I"' own arm . The Ell lish army 1 Conducted 9 the .ime principh is our own and is ol ftpproximately th< rhe 1 lish navy is about one third Lai -i than our navy, 1 an\ "limitation" which related to France and ou i lv would not Kn tnd and ourselves, and any which iiu 1 England w Id not lit ourselves and Japan. \\ hy have wo a large nav\ For two reasons. We have a long stline to protect, and we have, nuieh against our will but inevi We insist on the necessity of hav- ta K\ become entangled in foreign affairs. We protest, for example, against J a p a n ' s policy in China. ntrol over such distant centers of communication as the land i \ ap. \\ e demand, or at any rate we refuse to forgive, :e r nent ot some eleven billion dollars owed to our government by i< reign .wernments. As long as we are no longer merely the ot the Monroe Doctrine but are concerned with affairs e\ : wl ere, we must either content ourselves with the futility of .dilation or we must be prepared to make our protests—if we ould protect and insist on our claims—mean something. Why does France have a large army? Because she has found it necessary in the past. But for her army, there would have been no Armi :e Day to celebrate. But for her standing army, France would now be the vassal of Germany, and on terms which would make the reparations exacted from Germany seem like kisses exchanged amon_ children. Germany is, for the present, impotent but France cannot forget that the population of Germany is still much larger than her own, that the physical resources of Germany are still "much more varied than her own, and that, within the memorv of many of her citizens, Germany has twice invaded her border at a moment's warning. It is true that her own army is eating France up. It is true that bankruptcy stares her in the face if Germany does not pay the bills which France has drawn on her and there seems at present no way, in either money or goods, b\ which these bills can be paid. But the fear of what has happened is too vivid to forget, the bitterness of suffering too sharp to permit forgiveness. Any French government which would markedly cut d( the French army would not last till the sunrise of the next day In other words, each nation has its own special and different erf tg to protect. Kach nation is affected not by anv special I 8\ • ;logy but by s|) ial circumstances. Kngland without uninipted imports could not sustain the hie of her people for a year herefoi Kngland feels she must be able to keep control of the seas. [aj in has i unprotected India and unprotected China pass into 9
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