Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-05-21
United States Is Preparing for
War of at Least Three
Years Duration; Victory
Must Be Won on Field.
KAlSER'S AIM TO CUT
EUROPE IN TWO PARTS
Is Following Bismarck's Pol
icy; Washington Is Secur-
ing Much Valuable lnfoma-
ton.
70, so.sss JOURNAL SPECIAL LsAsrp WINS,


washington, May 20.-Gertnahy
next peace declaration, expected 10
suggest program of TERRITORIAL re-
nunciation on the east and west, is re-
garded here as largely answered De-
forehand by information revealing
for the first time the full scope of the
imperial governments aspirations for
conquest in the south.
This information discloses as one Oh
tho urinary aims of the war plan
for consolidation of an impregnapie
military and economic unit stretching
from the North sea to the Meulterra-
mean, cutting Europe permanently III
half. controlling the Dardaneiies' the
Aegean and the Baltic and evehtuaiy
forming the backbone of Prussiah
world empire.
Follows Bismarck's Policy
In the light of German history the
plan shows how implicitly the kaiser
has followed out the blood and iron
poIitico-economic methods of BIS
marck for development of Prussiah
power. Considered in view or tne
present war map, it shows that the
major portion of the kaiser's war pro-
gram has been accomplished, regard
less of what disposition is made OF
conquered territory in France, Bel
gium and Russia.
full realization of this sltuatioh,
which will form a sinister background
for consideration of whatever renuh-
citation proposals the imperial chan
cellor may make, adds new force 10
the repeated declarations or allieu
statesmen that the German peace ma
neuyers are in reality war moves ana
that q premature truce would give
Germany a resting period in which TO
further Prussianize and prepare for
greater world war the territory to tne
southeast which she has conquered
under the guse of friendly alliance.
iS4t Must Make World Safe
Although officials have refrained
from definite public expressions or
what the United States might de-
mand as a peace guarantee, these pos
sibilities recall with recurring empha-
sis President Wilson's declaration that
America might fight until "the world
Ia made safe for democracy"
They bring into relief Foreign Min
lister Balfour's warning that hard
fighting still must win the war, the
conviction of the American army gen.
eral staff that the country must pre-
pare for at least three years OF war,
and the fact that predictions of an
early peace have been discredited as
visionary in virtually every allied cap
ital.
How minutely defined is the Ger
man plan and how accurately 1t Is be-
ing carried out have become fully ap-
parent only with the opening up, dur
ing the last few weeks of several new
avenues of information.
Policy Now Explained.
The return of American diplomatic
agents from the central empires. the
visit of the British and French war
missions. detailed confidential reports
of the recent frank expressions in the
reichstag and in the German press
and the deductions of alert American
agents abroad watching the newest
peace moves. have supplied the eXpla-
nation Of more than one hitherto OBJ
scured feature of the German policy.
In her southeastern conquests, 1t is
now apparent, Germany has followed
almost in toto the long established
plan of the Pan-German league,
whose propaganda had been regarded
outside of Germany as the harmless
activity of extremists. Coupled with
this plan, as an instrument of econ
omic consolidation, the German Off
cials have used with only slight modi-
fications the system or customs union
expansion which aided Prussia in for
mer years to extend their domin-
over the other German states now
making up the empire.
Outlined in 1911.
AS early as 1911, the Pan-German
league is said to have circulated a
definite propaganda of conquest, with
printed appeals containing maps of a
greater Germany whose sway from