New Britain herald., 1917-04-05
COMMENT OF BERLIN
 EDITORS IS BITTER
Resent Distinction Between Ger
 man People and Government


 Berlin, April 5.-Bitter personal at tacks on President Wilson and the re- pudiation of the distinction he drew between the German people and their government feature the comments of the German newspaper on the pres ident's message to congress.
 The Lokal Anzeiger says: Amer ica must know that the assurance of President Wilson that the war is directed not against the German peo- pie but the German government can not detract from the anger which his last message has famed into a bright flame. For this assurance is untrue and dishonest, as all the rest of the document from the first word to the last. Mr. Wilson knows that no war in all history was so little dynastic and none so much war of a whole people fighting for existence as this one, which was forced on Germany by control of enemies in. all parts of the world whose hate was born of envy"
 Germania says: President Wilson wanted war and nobody can get past that. If we were at war with only one or the other of our enemies Pres ident Wilson would never have con- ceived the idea of pulling his country
 into such a bloody adventure. But the obvious side of war, which is
 based on such a weak foundation. is
 the fact that it comes from a man who has so fan set himself up as
 sort of moral judge who failed to bring the world to eternal peace. As little as Italy and Rumanfa could turn the scales against us so little will the United States be able to change the Tde of war;:
 The Vossiche Zeitung says: Those
 who have so far doubted the bad faith of President Wilson will know better when they read the malicious
 distortion of truth which forms the
 chief contents of his message. His
 attempt to set up difference between
 the German government and the Ger
 man people is as perfidious and ab-
 surd as his claim that the German
 Kaiser started the war for dynastic
 reasons and that the German war par
 ty sponsored it for conquest
 The Vorwaerts runs it's comment
 under a despatch telling of the pend-
 ing trip to Washington from Vienna
 of United States Ambassador Penf1eld
 For the time being" says the social tst organ, i've must reckon with the fact that a new enemy has arisen. We must realize that at, the coming peace conference. which we hope will be called soon America will sit on the bench of our opponents.''
 The Vienna Neue Erie Press de- clares that America has decided upon war because it was unable any long CT to deliver its supplies to the Allies. > The Vienna Reindhost says: "We must not appraise too lightly the ad- dition of rich and powerful indus trial republic to the list of our enemies, but if the submarines main- tain their so far great success Presi-
 dent Wilson will have come too late, as Salandra and Bratiano came too
 late. Criminal as has been the whole assault upon the Central powers by
 the Entente, it must be said that each
 conspirator added to the list, not ex- cluding Japan, had better reasons for his bloody enterprise than Wilson, and
 his republic can show"
 The Tageblatt professes to believe that President Wilson has deceived the American people and that they will in time realize it. we take the American war announcement in ex- ceeding earnest" this paper says. Great Emotion in Bcrne. Geneva, Via Paris, April 5.-Great 1 emotion has .been caused in the little Swiss republic by the news that it's Lgreat sister b ebout to enter the war. I The Journal de Geneve says:
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