﻿Over There 
  
The Mosul oil fields are not difficult of solution, as a problem. Belonging to neither France nor England, these fields could very easily be divided between them on a fifty-fifty basis without re.-ort to military diplomacy. 

The “dunning” expedition of La Belle France is not an excursion to collect reparation; not to acquire coal. Oh, no, it is only a polite way to prevent German competition in world markets. (The United States too, is benefited by this strangled German enterprise.) 

But England and France cannot save themselves by strangling Germany —all three will go down together in a glorious heap of flesh, blood and bones. The European “dog-in-the-manger attitude” is the criterion of the “sublime ignorance”‘ of political leadership— moral bankruptcy.— (T-Bone Slim).