Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-05-30
AN ALLIANCE WITH THE ALLIES
rIlN pURPOSE.


THE PURPOSE.
Speaking at the first national annual
assomblage of the League to Enforce
Peace Theodore Marburg. of Balti-
more, former Minister to Belgium,
suggested that former President Taft
be sent abroad at the proper time to
line up the Allies in favor of a league
to enforce peace. Mr.. Marburg said,
as reported by the Baltimore Evening
Sun Of May 27
I'VE must get the Allies to commit
themselves to joint control of inter
national affairs" We must get
distinguished men here and Congress
itself to support the league. l hope
Mr.. Taft will so abroad with q reso-
luton Of Congress to do this work
Former British Ambassador Bryce
wants our Congress to pass a resolu-
lion favoring an International peace
league
II Mr.. Marburg were a strictly
neutral American citizen, his sug-
gestion that we get the Allies COM
nit themselves to joint control of
international affairs" leaving out the
Central Powers, could probably be
construed as meaning that the will
ingness of the latter group Of bel
ligerents were a foregone conclusion,
because Austria has kept peace since
1866, and Germany has had no war
since 1874, while on the other hand
most Of the Entente Powers have
been constantly robbing weaker ma
tions OF territory and have been car
rying on many wars on almost all OF
the continents for the last forty
years, that therefore the allies were
the very powers that need special at
tention and need to be curbed.
But Mr.. Marburg is not q neutral
American citizen. BY many Of his
fellow-countryme he is considered
to be more British than American.
At least his antipathy (to state it
mildly) to Germany, the country
where the cradle of his parents
stood is we'll known. The former
Minister to Belgium has quite fre-
quently rushed into print showing
his dislike OF the country of his
origin and his conviction that the
German government is responsible
for this frightful bloodshed
conviction he conceived in London
during the first four weeks Of the
war and which he is said to be fear
full of having shaken by studying
evidence TO the contrary. At the
meeting in Washington he repeated
the ancient lio of August 1914 that
at the beginning of the war France
retired her forces a certain number
of kilometres within her own boar
ders, while it is q well known fact
thatFrance officers were in Liege, Bel
gium, before the Germans arrived at
that fortress.
So Mr.. Marburg's invitation to the
Allies and his leaving out the Cen
tral Powers can mean only that the
Central Powers are not wanted In the
proposed league, at least as far as
Mr.. Marburg Is concerned, and that
his understanding of q League to
Enforce Peace" is nothing short of
an alliance between the United
States, Great Britain. France, Rus
sia, Italy Japan and the rest Of the
present members Of the Entente
against Germany and the countries
allied with her in the present world
struggle
AS Mr.. Marburg is one OF the main
spokesmen/ in the American League
to Enforce Peace, IL must be assum-
cd that his ideas are the ideas of at
least q majority or the leading mem
bers. And it does not require much
searching to find that such is the
fact Senator Lodge from Massa-
chusetts, one of the strongest friends
the allies have in the upper house Of
the Congress OF the United States,
said at that same meeting in Wash
ington. Washin gton's warning to the
country to steer clear Of entangling
alliances should not be interpreted to
not join with other nations If a
mean that the United States could
method were found to diminish war
and encourage peace; while a man by
the name OF Philip II. Gadsden, Of
Charleston. S. c., declared it was
time to forsake the advise of Wash
ington against entering into "entang
ling alliances"
The purpose OF the League to En-
force Peace is nothing else but a
roundabout way to bring tho United
States into an Alliance with Great
Britain--a desire cherished by the
American branch of the anglo
Saxon Race" for a number of years.