Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-03

label must be so designed as to- strike
the eyes of tSe Berlin people and i'm
press upon them that the wat was
bringing them in something and was
supplying them with food.
Propaganda in neutral countries
was likewise not beneath LudendorfTs
august notice, and he discussed at
length with actors, theatrical manage
ers n art critics the best methods
OF influencing Switzerland and Scandi-
1aVia. by NEAR of dramas, concerts
and art exhibitions.
He hoped very great things from
the famous l~ong-range gun which he
insisted must begin bombarding Paris
at regular intervals at h same time
as the spring offensive Of 1918 began.
He admitted that the gun was utterly
worthless from a military point Of
view. but he firmly believed that it
would strike such terror into the
Parisians and so absolutely democrat
ize them that they would soon be
ready to e%apitulate. When, therefore,
ne did base his calculations upon
higher human qualities and not upon
human weaknesses those calculations
proved absolutely wrong.
He was surrounded by an army Of
favorltes, to whom he showed 10Th
severity n favor. If the relatives
OF these favorites grew rich, he no.
t!ced it and was well pleased that it
should be SO. He did not ask how
they had become rich.
L%udendorff, indeed, attained such a
pitch of power that he even put his
oWn wishes before those of his en-
peror and of the heir to that emper-
or's throne. The kaiser. it is not sur
prising, vas jealous Of him, and it
required Ludendorff's astutest flattery
m 0Uor0N~ n = %h;o s~ol~,-. -
over his sovereign to his side. For
a time Ludendorff wen ruled Austria,
n when Count Czernin went to see
him at headquarters about the Polish
question, he came away without hav-
ing attained n of his objects, but
with a profound admiration for Lu-
dendorff: Not with m feeling Of
too cold, toe arrogant, Inc far too
ambitious to have friends. For
friends he has no use. for equals no
tolerance, only humble servants are
of any value to him. He has, says his
Austrian critic, in the National-Zei-
tung Of the Basic, no respect for his
obligation, n his pledged word is
game Of war.
His methods are we'll illustrated by
some kilograms between him and Won
Hintze-telegrams only just pub
lished. although they are almost two
months old. Ludendorff told the
secretary of state, Won Hintze, how he
was to stir up strife with the Lithuan-
Hertling had promised them. could
be taken from them and given to the
Poles, in return for which the Poles
were to cede certain territory to Prus-
STA. Ludendorff's one idea was to set
every one against every one else. in
cessantly to stir up strife and create
ill feeling and misunderstanding, ap-
that in so doing he was fostering
elements of destruction instead of
construction. Thus he did his best to
set the different parties in the Ger
man reichstag against one another,
and also to set the Allies against one
another. Those who carried out his
propaganda used to receive instruc-
French that the English were leav-
ing them in the lurch, at another
time to show the English that they
were waging war only to serve the
purposes of the French, and were
being altogether outdone by the
Americans, COT whom, ~inferentiality,
therefore, they ought at once to be-
come jealousy
AS for the Bolsheviki and their agi-
tators, he did not at all despise them.
On the contrary, he encouraged them
to do mischief, and millions of money
have found their a into Bolshevist
pockets owing to his co%ntrivings: On
the other hand. he clearly knew
at what he vas aiming in politics.
One day he thought Germany should
make an alliance with the Russians
at the expense of the Allies, and the
next that Germany and England
should come to an understanding. at
the expense of Russia. And it is this
absolute lack of honor and of any
definite plan which has been the ruin
of the German people.
The result Of Ludendorffs policy
and scheming, says the National-Zei-
tung, was to bring into the war and
to, cause four-fifths Of mankind to
feel hat it was better to fight t0:the
last man and perish than to witness
the triumph of such a combination of
dishonorableness and brutality
Ludendorff, however, still could not
see that anything in the world mat
tered ave brute force and victory OF
the battlefield. "Since there have
ever been any Germans, no one. mar
has had such an enormous sway over
them, not even. Bismarck" It was
not personal vanity, which was Lu-
dendorff's undoing. but sheer lust of
domination. There is good reason
peace was merely part of his schem-
ing, but his schemes did % develop
as he had hoped. His ambition was
to threaten Germany with a disgrace
full peace, to ward off any such peace.
and then, having saved his country.
become it's dictator. But in the last
resort these invisible forces which he
never could realize were too powerful
for him. and he fell before them.
DEMAND soLFs RESIGNATION.
Copenhagen, Dec. Sit is announc-
ed officially in Berlin that the execu-
tive committee for greater Berlin has
reached an understanding with the