The weekly soliphone., 1917-05-17
GERMANY, STRONG, IS FULL OF HOPE
Is We'll Over Recent Attack of Nerves Peace Statement Will
 Be Sop" For Russia.

Copenhagen, May 10.-All that
 part of Germany that talks politics
 is on the quivive for the chancel-
 lor's answer to the conservative and socialist interpolation on Germany's
 war aims, which he is ordered to
 make toward the latter part of the
 week
 Such advance information that is available indicates that the chan cellor, who in his temporizing, compromise policy, still has the
 clerical party and all the golden
 mean moderates behind him, will again coyly refuse to disclose the full, naked truth about Germany s war aims and peace terms, but, in view of irresistible pressure from the dissatisfied right and left wings, it is believed that Bethmann will go farther in the unveiling pro- cess than ever before. Advance work is already being done to prepare German public
 opinion for assimilating the fact that the chancellor will not state
 peace terms in all detail. Inspired utterances in the chancellOr's press are explaining to the people that no Gerhaan statesman could bind his hands By committing himself to a detailed peace program with de- cisiye battle still in progress and Apparently liable to continue indef- initely.
 On the other hand, to placate the socialist masses and the s0rely strengthened working classes, the chancellor is expected to reaffirm
 the central powers willingness for a peace conference, and to meet ] Austrias s wishes at least half way ! it is expected he will be more spe- | lcifie about peace terms to Russia lpledging Germany to Austrias dec laration of a remuneration peace
 as far as Russian territory is con- cerned, though possibly taking the more guarded form of willingness
 to agree on terms involving no di- minution of Russian territory. That the chancellor is committed l to a peace move on virtually no
 annexation basis is apparent not only from the Cassandra shriekings of Pan-German press, but from
 an inspired statement emanatine from Vienna, which brands as CT
 roneous reports and rumors curre ent about a disagreement between the central powers over peace terms and explains this erroneous i'm. pression as due to the fact that the pan-G German press took violent ex- ception to Austria's war aims as against Russia, as made known by ! Czernin. The well 7 informed Viennese source concludes that nobody could be surprised that the super annex ationists in Germany, who are in bitter feud with the chancellor
 should not be we'll disposed toward Czernin, since he made known his Ino-annexation program as against l the Russian zoe, but that this atti- ] tude of the pan-Germans had, o1
 course, no significance for the poli- Icy and relations of the German and lAustro- Hungarian governments. Germany as a whole is apparent Fly experiencing a feeling of relief over the fact that the gravest in ternal crisis of the war seems to l have been safely weathered. Indi- cations now are that the Germans
 are periodically settling down for the long grind of the world war
 on the Hindenburg principle that l the side with the strongest nerves , will win the war.
 t That after an acute attack of nerves and a momentary social spasm, Germany has come back strong, is indicated by the Berlin Bourse, which since May 1 has been
 showing increased strength. Other
 reports indicate that the German
 public opinion is fast regaining its i full measure of wonted optimism and nothing could be more fatal
 than to fall for reports, which understand are current in America that Germany Is so near the point of collapse as to be willing to quit on. any terms.
 The two stoutest pillars of re-
 viving German optimism are the
 continued success of the submarine
 war and the dark developments in
 Russia. The English papers, always widely read and studied in Ger many during the war, are today
 being gone through with fine
 tooth comb for telltale matter re-
 garding the effect of the subma- rine war, and the results of those gleanings appear to be inspiring Germans with most optimistic, sat isfaction.
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