Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-03
SAYS GERMANY
DESIRES PEACE
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT INVES-
TIGATES
Unable to Find War Talk in the
Fatherland, or Any Indication
of Desire for Hos.
tllites

BERLIN, Sept. 2.-After being in
Germany for ten days, j. Ramsay Mac
Donald, British M. P. and labor leaQer,
saws that he has been unable 10 ma
any war clouds whatever. he says
suppose there are plans for the invasion
Of England in some pigeon mole IN Ser
lin, 1t is the business of the general
staff and the board of admiralty TO
exercise their brains on such a prop
lem. I also suppose there are, along
side of these, various other interesting
projects regarding marches TO Farls'
defenses of the German coasts, ana SO
on. thought out lest one day Englahd
starts shooting. I suppose that w nlIe- e.
hall conceals similar documents TO pc
busted and studied should occasion
arise. But that is not the point. What
wanted to know was: Does Germany
mean to have a slap at us!
wherever we went there were roses
roses all the way. That abstraction
the German people, has no more IN
tentlon of fighting us than OF eatlng
MS II regards England as trleno
With whom it desires to be at peace,
and from whom it hopes to draw
nrofits. But 1 was told that recently
tha abstraction is beginning to look on
MS with a new curiosity A deputatloIl
of Englishmen came to meet me az
Frankfort and begged or me TO tel,
England that what with 'scaresnlPs
Ctbe most universally understood Eng
lish word in Germany at the IloIlien.1 ~ >
and German spies and troops IN the
Humber. the German people are pe-
Ginning TO fear that their ne1ghDor is
oettino into a dangerously Jumpy frame
of mind and that she VIII start Snoot-
ing like the Russian fleet on the Dos
ger or like a western states miner IN
fbe old days who had been putting too
great a strain on his nerves.
Feeling Is Vague
.orbe feeling of the people being an
abstraction. il haunted me up the
Rhine and in the other districts away
| from Berlin. You speak TO Wortny
| citizens, but they do not appear 10
| control political events; you ulscuss
with members of parliament olliy "
| hnd that they are not members OF par
iiament. but of the reichstag, which is
NOT parliament; you try TO unuer-
stand WHY groups which agree and
which +oeether would make maJoritles
are inpotent, aDd you discover that
! something divides classes ana schools
of different political dogmas more than
seas or tariff walls. -,
s'Rut in Berlinl In Berlin you know
Won are in Prussia. You have left the
1aeue and come to the definite. Ber-
lin is felt as a change in atmospheric
nressure ,,rI is felt. The will Of Berlin
Dominates the intention of Germany
And YOU feel as you drive among those
brave new buildings proclaiming thai
the Hobenzollerns have a forceful Will
and only a poor taste. that they are
NOT to show yoV their heart, that they
are proud, that they are holding them
selves in hand to greet some world
wide imperial Germany. They have nc
repose in their lines They are all en-
bodiments of force, more y beautifully
expressed than by the new steel kartel
building in Dusseldorf, but still force
unhappy force. Paris laughs Berlin
wills.
'This minimizes the peaceful inten-
tions of the people One day while
walking under the cool shade of palm
trees. my ears full of soothing splash
of fountains, one of the German Navy
league intellectuals' unfolded his
mind TO me. He was in favor OF
peace; he was a special friend of Eng
land; he was Liberal and Free
Trader. But economic power had now
to be accompanied by political power
England could no more keep mistress