Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-15
oREATER PART OF PLAN
CARRIED INTO EXECUTION.

And they have actually
carried the greater part of that
amazing plan into execution! LOOK
how things stand From
Hamburg to the Persian gulf the
net is spread.
Is It not easy to understand the
eagerness for peace that has been
manifested from Berlin ever since
the snare was set and sprung?
Peace, peace, peace, has been the
talk of her foreign office for now
year and more; not peace upon her
own initiative, but upon the initia-
tive of the nations over which she
now deems herself to hold the adj
vantage.
little of the talk has been pub
lie, but most of II has been private.
Through all sorts of channels it has
come to me, and in all sorts of
guises, but never with the terms
disclosed which the German govern
ment would be willing to accept.
That government has other valuable
pawns in it's hands besides those I
have mentioned. 1t still holds a val
liable part of France, though with
slowly relaxing grasp, and practi-
cally the whole of Belgium. It's.
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not go back. 1t wishes to close its
bargain before it is too late and it
has little left to offer for the pound
of flesh it will demand.
The military masters under whom
Germany is bleeding see very clearly
to what point fate has brought
them. If they fall back or are
forced back an inch, their power
both abroad and at home will fall to
pieces like a house of cards. 1t is
their power at home they are think
ing about now more than their pow
er abroad. 1t is that power which
is trembling under their very feet;
and deep fear has entered their
hearts. They have but one chance
to perpetuate their military power
or even their controlling political
influence. If they can secure peace
now, with the immense advantages
still in their hands which they have
up this point apparently gained,
they will have justified themselves
before the German people.
WILSON BARES REASON
FOR NEW PEACE INTRIGUE.
If they fail, their people will
thrust them aside; a government ac-
countable to the people themselves
will be set up in Germany as it has
been in England, in the United
States, in France, and in all the
great countries of the modern time
except Germany. If they succeed
they are safe and Germany and the
world are undone; if they fail Ger
many is saved and the world will be
at peace. If they succeed. America
will fall within the menace. We and
all the rest of the world must re-
main armed, as they will remain,
and must make ready for the next
step in their aggression; If they fail,
the world may unite for peace and
Germany may be of the union.
Do you not now understand the
new intrigue, the intrigue for peace,
and why the masters of Germany do
not hesitate to use any agency that
promises TO effect their purpose,
the deceit of the nations? Their
present particular aim is to deceive
all those who throughout the world
stand for the rights of peoples and
the self-government of nations; for
they see what immense strength the
forces of justice and of liberalism
are gathering out of this war They
are employing liberals in their en-
terprise. They are using men, in
Germany and without, as their
spokesman whom they have hitherto
despised and oppressed, using them
for their own destruction-social-
lists, the leaders of labor, the think
ers they have hitherto sought to
silence.
Let them once succeed and these
men, now their tools. will be ground
to powder beneath the weight of the
military empire they will have set
up; the revolutionists in Russia will
be cut off from all succor or CO.
operation in western Europe and
counter revolution fostered and sup
ported; Germany herself will lose