New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10
II. NJ. MACCRACKEN
WANTS DRAWN WAR
Exclamation of n. Y. u,
Opposes Idea of Hum
bling Any Nation.
SCORES DR.. ELIOT'S
ATTACK ON GERMANY
DR.. Dernburg, Also Addressing
Republican Club, Pleads for
Neutral High Sea.

More than three hundred members
and guests Of the Republican Club at
tended the first Saturday luncheon Of
the season at the clubhouse yesterday,
when "The War and After" was dis
cussed by men Of note. The speakers
were DR.. Bernhard Dernburg, former
director Of colonial affairs OF the Ger
man Empire; DR.. Henry VI. MacCrack-
en-, former chancellor of New York
University; DR.. Yoyokichi Iyenaga,
professor of history, of Chicago Uni
versity, and DR.. Edwin Bjorkman. Of
the American Scandinavian Founda-
ton.
DR.. MacCracken took strong issue
with the recent public statements of
DR.. Charles W. Elicit, president emeri-
tus of Harvard University, in regard
20 the situation in Europe. He de-
clared that DR.. Eliot was entirely
wrong in saying that Germany brought
on tie war in her selfish desire to ac-
quire world empire. and that in order
to secure a permanent peace the Allies
would first have to crush Germany on
her own soil.
DR.. MacCracken urged all Americans
TO favor and advocate as the most de-
sirable outcome of the conflict "a
drawn game" He declared that as
strong a spirit of militsrism had pre-
vailed in England, particularly in
building up her navy, as in Germany
during the last fifty years.
Unequal Neutrality.
81 can conceive OF no meaning OF
world empire in connection with Ger
many" said DR.. MacCracken, Save
such world commerce and such few
colonies as she may be able fairly to
win. The world empire, named thir-
teen times in DR.. Eliot's four letters as
n German Imagination and aim, exists
in the imagination of the British and
their partisans more than in Germany.
"In the present duel America is COM
PEELED TO act the part of dishonor-
able second, in that We are obliged
under wrong international laws to let
our people sell powder and shot to
Great Britain. But we are not allowed
TO see to it that equally good weapons
and ammunition are supplied by Amer
lea TO Germany If she desires to buy.
"The drawn game should be desired
by every American because, while 1t
leaves each of the five fighting nations
defeated. it leaves no one Of them
shamefully humbled.'
DR.. Dernburg made an earnest plea
70 Americans to recognize the unfort-
innate effects, commercially and spirit
ually, which are bound to attend the
indulgence of i'll feeling on the part
of neutrals toward the principals in
the European war. He dwelt upon the
British interference with American
trade with neutral countries, and de
clared that the high seas are, ard, Of
right. ought to be neutral area, where
on ships of -belligerent nations
should be free to come and go, pre-
cisely as in times of peace. He even
advocated that ships of war should be
forbidden to go outside of the three
mile territorial limit Of the nations 70
which they belonged.
Distinction Between Foes.
Dr. Iyenaga reviewed the war situa-
ton in the Far East, and the part
Japan was playing under her treaty
with England. He said the japanese
people harbor no feelings of enmity
toward the German people, because the
japanese had been trained by centuries
of discipline to make a clear distinc-
ton between personal friends and the
enemies of the state. There was no
hypocrisy in the courteous treatment
of the Germans by the japanese in the
present war, he said. He took occa-
Z sion, however, 10 condemn the Ger
man Far Eastern policy.
The speaker said he could not share
/ the easy optimism chat seems TO rule
among the Allies and in the American
| press" and while he had faith in the
/ ultimate victory of the Allies, Japan
could not afford to lay down her arms
because Of the possibility of future in
vasion and attack by Emperor Will
/ Jams hosts.