TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1915-03-03

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GERMANY CANNOT BE CRUSHED.
New York. Norman Angel, the
eminent author, editor and peace
advocate, believes that all the British
talk about crushing Germany IL
fatuous and that Germany cannot be
destroyed" in any sense. In the course
OF an article In the New York American
he SAYS:
what has made the Germans force
in Europei
mo one but a very angry man who
las temporarily lost his sense Of facts
and his memory or very silly or ig-
norant one could hesitate as TO the
answer TO that question. The Germans
are Of all the peoples OF Europe the
most nearly allied TO the United States
in race and blood. In all the simple and
hoinely things our very language Ia the
same, and Every time we speak of
house and love, father and mother, son
and daughter, God and man. work and
bread, We attest 10 common origins IN
The deepest and realest things that AZ.
feet US. Our religious history is allied
cur political ties have In the past been
many. In England even the royal fam
lily lie OF German descent
"1he public memory is notoriously q
short lived one. II twenty Years ago
the average Briton had been askei
what people in Europe were most like
himself in moral outlook, In their atti.
tude to the things which really matter
family life, social morality, the rela-
tions Of the sexes and the respective
Importance which we ascribe to the va.
rious moral qualties--he would have
said almost to a man that that nation
was Germany. The notion that they
we're more nearly allied in their char.
acter TO the French would have ap-
pcared to ninety.nine Britons out Of
hundred, twenty years ago. almost Of.
fensive.
Until yesterday. for nearly 30)
years, among educated men in Europe,
German idealisRl has been recognized
ns the outstanding moral force In RI.
rope. Two hundred years aa. a great
Voltaire, embodied this
common Judgment Of educatcd men ia
Europe when he said that 'France rules
he land, England the sea ami Germany
he clouds
"The most obvious facts q the case
annot ascribe the crimes OF the Ger.
mans in making this war i. they have
made il to their race. For very long
ine they stood as the least aggressive
eople in Europe-- idealistis, so little
ationalist or military that Goethe
ould not bring himself to b. disturbed
ven by the Napoleonic invasion Of his
ountry. Ia
"Do we desire when we talk airily
{ giving France all Germany up TO the
'bine 10 revive the French spirit which
larked the France OF Louis XIV, Z
'hich for nearly 200 years kept the
ntire world IN constant fear and
Ivolved long and bitter struggle. !
o we wish TO revive once more that ,
,ecter which was laid but yesterday ln
he possible menace Of Russia, at (
-esent rudimentary and but partially 4
but growing vastly in area I
I'D in numbers, 10 the British position I
both Asia and Europei
81 want TO suggest that failure Is
rtsin IL the allies base their hope
final settlement upon sheer military E
ight. The sheer military subsection :
people like the Germans can only :
temporary because ta) Of the recup. !.
ative capacity shown by such con. :
Tered states in She past and (b) OF :
c extreme nutability Of the present I I
lance, which gives the preponderanee I, 4
power against Germany.
"In the first few years OF the nine. y y
enth century Prussia was annihilated :
military force. The army was !
stroyed at Jena and Auerstadt. and y
e whole country was oyerrun by the ,
eneh. u
yet with this unpromising material II
. workman OF the German national n
naissance labored to such good pur. pl
sc that within little more than five fs
ars Of the humiliation OF the peace N