Si J- 'v 7 l ' kT'i &7l . " Vv, . '.!.. JTMRWai ' A 4&t . Y 'u V e i h' ft l 32 n EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHltlADELPHiA; TUESDAY, K&ROH ,16, 11(20 1 .Germany's Sinister Mind Plotting Recrudescence Through "German Peace - f Centlntifrt From 1'neo One. labor cabinet, at least by an administration In which Socialists will play a leading role. Itritlsh Labor Pledged to Revise Treaty Now, It is notorious that the chiefs of the British Labor party have given positive assurances to their "comrades" in Berlin that their first act upon their advent to power will be to enforce the revision of the "capitalist treaty" concluded at Versailles. ' Nor do the British Socialists any longer stand alone on this issue; all Germany's old pacifist friends, a3 well as the statesmen who resigned from office because they disapproved of England's defense of Belgian neu trality, or who showed themselves incapable during the war of fighting tho it H atly wtan that lio would Ion Germans to a victorious finish, have proclaimed their intention of revising the treaty, and they also are being swiftly borne to power again on tho rising flood of popular discontent, caused not by any outraged feelings of sympathy and love for Germany, but chiefly by the high cost of living. The situation is similar in Italy. The Italian Socialists were Ger many's stanchest allies even while their country was at war, and today they havo become so powerful a party that they can force their govern ment to advocate recognition of the Russian soviet in the counpils of the Allies, to say nothing of the revision of a treaty in which Italy, after all, is but indirectly interested. volvcs", nna which it is undoubtedly ono of Germany's alms to promote and in tensify. If Clemenccnu Had HntT His Way Public opinion In Prance inclines to tho v!cv which is llltowlbo not nlto Ki'thcr unJtiKtlflt'ri that If Clnncncenu hud been allowed l lme hit own way at the Parli con fore tiro ho would at least have mirccodrd In mailing a stable, "old .fash toned pence." which, wldlo it mleht not have accorded with Wllsonlan principles, would, at any rate, have set old Europe irolnjr again for a generation or two nud restored normal conditions much sooner than the abortive pence of compromises ultimately arrived nt by the allied statesmen. Tt Is miltn imxxlhlp that the old "Tiger" might liaxc done this, just ns "Pro-Germanism" at Discount in France It is only in France that pro-German idealists and Socialists arc still at a discount and seem to have little chance at present of seizing tho reins of government, and this circumstance explains, why all the famous "German hatred" which once upon a time was flatteringly concentrated gainst England is now exclusively directed against the "imperialistic and militaristic French nation." and finds a vent almost daily in impudent provocation of French members of allied commissions in Germany. The integrity of purpose of the British statesmen who arc prominent today as advocates of Germany's immediate admission to the League of Nations and of the subsequent remaking of the pence is unquestioned. It is their sincere conviction that Germany, like labor, can only be pre vented from running amuck and ruining all Europe by a policy of conces sions and co-operation. Britons Again Dupes of Germany But it is, unfortunately, difficult to have much confidence in their political foresight whero Germany is concerned, or to feel sure that they will see through all the plots and intrigues of the unrepentant Hun. They were duped by Germany before tho war, believing implicitly in Gorman superiority in science, in philosophy and in social economy, and in tho honesty and trustworthiness of tho German character; not a few of them were ready to be duped by Germany during the war and would have accepted the peace she proposed if they had been in power; and there arc plenty of symptoms that seem to point to their being Germany's dupes once more today. Such is the present outlook in Europe with regard to the revision of ' egoism ami is busy bewailing her own .... . r . .. . . . .. , , , .,7 . .. . . , ., wrongs. So France is left alone, if not the Versailles peace, and it is sufficiently evident that it is very favorable j disarmed, at least very weak in face for Germany. The German press is certainly of this opinion, and though of Germany. Wise Frenchmen are be its attitude is still guarded, its hopes are so high that they burst forth ! J XStTtanSeUw. Hetwecn Blgnincanuy at limes, in spue ui vaii-iut uiuria to suppress u.ui.i. ' nnn lira a foil ci ! ttml nllt. t (S ! u nun i-a-iiuu(v iMMii ' " -" slicvlsm in Itussla and thereby in the rest of tho world if his vigorous advice had been followed. Many Germans have nuuireil me that in the first dajs of the nrmlstK- Ger many would have cheerfully accepted, In her eagerness to get back at onco to normal conditions of existence, much harder terms than were finally Imposed upon her. and 'submitted to far more considerable territorial losses, without the revengeful ravings which even on unfavorable plebiscite roues in her heart today. But this willingness to sacrifice everything in order to satisfy her pas sionate craving for real and immediate peace died away daring the intermin able, encrrating months of the Paris conference, giving place to a resentful determination to tear the Versailles treaty in pieces like nuother "scrap of paper" nt the earliest opportunity. nn quished Germany began to feel her strength ngnln while the conference diplomnts debated and wianglcd and the Bolshevist inennic spread west ward, and when the Allies finally had the treaty ready she no longer .stood in any great awe of them. Bolshevists Exultant nt Change Undoubtedly France finds herself placed in a very difficult situation to day through the Socialistic trend of pol itics and public opinion in Kugland and Italy. A pro-Bolshevist and pro-German newspaper published in Geneva, La Feullle, gloats over her difficulties in this significant fashion: "Tho United States vouchsafe no re ply to the appeals that arc addressed to them from Europe, doubtless became they are not sorry to bo rid of the Old World, whose friendship Involved in cessant requests for money. England is satisfied with hnvlng assured for a long time to come her domination of the seas. Italy has reverted to her sacred absurdities that call for revision im peratively. Were it possible to feel any confidence that, if the penco is rcmado, it will be rcmado by the united and Indivisible Allies, and not by revenge ful, scheming Germany, all would yet be well. But alarming omens portend, that tho new pence will be a German peace, a pcaco made by unregcuernted Germany through her old agents nud friends nnd duped sympathizers all over the world, to the greater glorj and profit of the militaristic-socialistic em pire that has menacingly arisen from tho ruins of the German revolution. The Versailles treaty is far from perfect, but it is not true that it is tcsponslblo for tho present state of fecial unrest nnd economic distress in Iluropo, which is partly the inevitable coiisenuenco of the war, but chiefly of the criminal plots of the extremist mis leaders of European labor. A German pcaco will not pacify national and so cial antagonism, nor will it lower the tx.st of living, as Germany has suc ceeded in making some desperate Euro pean statesmen believe. A revision of the penco of Versailles, as Germany comprehends it, means the reopening of all tho national and racial questions that puzzled thfc Paris Con ference for over a year and moro than enco threatened to break It up nnd lead to new European wars. It must infallibly stir up new jealousies, bus picions.hatrcd and fctrlfe. It.slBuiHr--tbat boundaries bare. established will be again abolished, that races that nr; hut Just beginning to grow reconciled to tho destiny assigned to them by tho Tnris .diplomats will once moro bo plifnged into tho ferment of nationft aspirations. Itcntntls a universal ro crudesccnce of chauvinism, of deceit, of Intrigues, of plotting nnd of comip tlon. In woruii means tho tlisas ttous tragi -comedy of the Paris Con ferenco over again, with new actors, but all tho old evil ambitions and In stincts at work behind tho scenes. , Europo has miraculously survived one Peaco Conference, but it is moro than doubtful whether it would survive an other. Tho high aim of the promoters of a new peaw, and a argumeTl cficctlvcly advanced in it. .-.- . T I it al6ne enn restore fn th. -.. ' nrtmtr ntirl fltiittiAtnl .. .. "' i.:r, r."Sir""". prosperitT ..i pvmui mummy, anu save rlni..uuu from bolshevlsm. But neither thi"0' tonality nor the political Xd 1 of new allied peacemakers guaranteed.! incy win succeed any better than tt,i. ill-fated predecessors, and them i.ii1' non to dread thai lik iSt-JE?,!8 Ma. merely preclnltato th M.i'? "! d,crt Wh'Ch U ' tbti" slncwo dltfl ; -' MM..MJ -as Sees Germany's Rejuvenation "The Germans will soon be the most nivcrsally sought-for ami courted people on eurth," predicts Fniversity Professor Dr. Karl Brockhcusen in the Nctio Freie Presse, the great Viennese Pan-German paper, who-e dream is the union of Austria with Germany, and h" continues: Que needs us to Mive 1 .11 rope by seeking to hypnotize the allied politicians nnd peoples into the belief that the Versailles treaty alone is re sponsible for it, and that shattered finances enn bo mended nnd tho inennce f bolshevlsm nvcrted only if she is lib erated from the penco sho ratified, but ueer Intended to keep. A comprehensible feeling of alarm rope iron) rum. .uany smuige wBii . , .i,, ,n Frilncc by thc lis that our foes will no louger refuse . (,., ,s ,mvi ., thls our co-operation ns categorically os the.x ,linl)n,i(.lll iu,rjKUp in England. The would have done, only a hhort t mo ngo. yr....,.u f,.n, .,..,1 r cannot 1,.., tl.Inkinc "The Entente's decision not to insist , nro riRllt that any rcvision nf ,hc on the surrender of the so-called war trenty cn-Fcted under the auspices of thc criminals may well mark the beginning RritM, Socialists and their bourgeois of the complete revision of the peace sympathizers will Inevitably lead, at any treaty. But only if the Oermans are ,,uc, far ILS France is concerned, to a ' received ugnln on equal terms into the 1 (Jerman peace annulling the glorious I family of nations as one of its valuable ' Uctory for which France paid with tho respected members, nnd onl if the ure nxrH f 2,0111), 0(10 of her sons, nnnl- 1 given equal opportunities 01 existence bunting her hop.- of prosperous renewal and development con the Entente ex- nnd leaving her without defense against Pcet to obtain their co-operation. ftiure Teuton nsgiesiou. f "This psychological moment seems Indeed, the French people feel, not Imminent: already interest in the execu- without bitterness, that they are being tlon of the peace terms N waning in deserted cien now by their nllles -add the Alfied countries. Who still cares l"ft to cope alone with n Gerriirtu today how much of the war Indemnify , mennee. wh eh may have ceased tp -ex-Germany will pay, or when she, will I't for England and America with the pay it? Who cares whether impossible 1 destruction of tin C.ermnn fleet nnd the boundaries drawn by the Versailles dip- '"nnuest of the t.ermnn colonies, but lomats on the map of Kurupu will he 1 " ".' " "'", """;"" ' " ' oer Strasbourg and Metz. There is a current belief that the French Government is determined to counter any attempt on the part of the Anglo-Saxon powers to brin about a revision of the Versailles treaty by putting forward n cluim that in this case France must bo given the right to occupy permanently the left bank of the Rhine. The French press has re peatedly stated that France Is prepared to welcome the revision of the treaty, as It would enable her to obtain the natural strategic frontier which was lie- faithless friends and a nowcrful foe Franco Is Isolated." And the moral extracted by T.a Feullle from these pessimistic reflections is, of course, thnt France must sue for pow -erful Germany's friendship and give her , consent without delay to the revision of tho pence trenty. lest thc Germans nt tnck and nnnlhihtc her. In the present chaotic stnto of Europe it would certainly bo thc wict course to maintain the peneo of Versailles en tirely unchnnged. Unfortunately, the treaty presents n innze of complicated 1 maintnincd for ever or not? "All these questions, which were so 1 imporiuUL Din. yesiernuy, nave hjsi uieir significance now that the life of all Eu rope is at stake." Optimism Iniohes Covert Threat It is characteristic that the profes sor's optimistic prediction involves a covert threat: Germany will refuse to co-operato nnd will let Europe go to ruin if the Allies do not uccept her aid on her own terms. And just as the pro fessor bees in thc Allied concessions as to the trial of the German war criminals only an encouragement to demand the 1 nled her at Versailles. Some people total annulment of thc peace treaty. another German writer in the same newspaper hails the rumored award of the British Hool Society's gold medal to Professor Einstein, of Berlin, as a certain sign that the "del IPs work of Versailles" is to be abolished. It is the old. old story that the Teuton mind is Incapable of interpreting acts of generosity and fairness otherwise than ns symptoms of weakness which must be exploited at once in order to obtain further, greater advantages. ' Equally illuminating is an editorial of the Arbeiter Zeitung, the Viennese Socialist organ, deuliug with the Brit ish Labor party and thc revision of the peace of Versailles. "A complete rhnngc in England's policy in regard to Gerinan is now no ticeable," declares this paper, "a change that is undoubtedly (auseil by tho in dustrial situation In England. British industries arc realizing more clearly every day that the economic ruin pre vailing in Central Europe is frustrating their own reconstruction and develop ment The great German mnrkot is closed to England on account of the depreciation of the mark, for no busi ness man in (iennan can afford to buy English goods at the present rate of ex change. Capitalists Vion to German View "The consequence is that even tho cap italist classes in England are abandon ing the iuiperinlistie policy whose incar nation is the l.oaio (,f Versailles. Tlie lire beginnnu understand that British I Industries must polish if Germany is not given a chance to recover economically. "It is this ihunge in public opinion that is currjing tin- British Labor part) to power. A little while ago the Labor finrty stood alone in the light against mperiulisui ; now it is being re-enforced by all those who lealize the daugers of a policy of force. The great muss of em ployes anil intellectuals aru joining its ranks. Former ministers have pro claimed their sjmpathy with its ideals. Thus thc British Labor party is rapid!) gaining ground and this circumstance is already exerting a decisive influence on England's foreign policy. "The men of Versailles aro still In office, but the) no longer dare to pur sue file policy of Versailles, for public opinion is every day condemning it more unanimously. This, explains tin- present vacillations of England's foreign policy, which announce the imminent great change." Utilizing Europe's Economic Crisis Tims astutely is Germany utilizing tho economic und political crisis in Eu hiive even insinuated that France hns been hoping all along that tho Germans may commit some flugraut vlolntiou of the peace terms, furnishing her with a pretext for taking possession of this coveted territory. This latter assertion is, I am con vinced, but one of the innumerable seeds of discord diligently sown by Germany between France nnd her Auglo-Snxon allies, but it Is, as a matter of fact, t " iiuiicuit to see, now the French can pro. ' Irct their national Intorrsts otherwise than by annexing tho line of tho Rhine If Germany is allowed to-remafio the peace. , And so this question alone sufSces to reveal some of thc crave dangers of dis- , cord and friction among thc victors which the revision of the treaty in- Wc have some small houses along thc Phila delphia & Beading Rail way that will make dainty Homes for some lucky persons. 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