Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-10

Ions bIHagreruruts In GerarhR day
! between Trpltl and Bethmann Holt
wcE. have been explained by the
former Ambassador Ia these NOR
hectic timcA, the fcud In continued
between kuhlmlnu and Herting on
the one side. l.udondorff and Won
ICApellr on the other. with the kaiser
a. before. IN the uneasy role Of um-
lplro. Opinion has been mlslsd BY
these diHdgtrrmrItA
There ~ no difference between
the political and military ieadsrs Of
the autucrbcy rcgu Niiug aims The
Hquahbic concerns the methods To be
lempiuyed Ia attaining tho aims upon
which all are agreed. kuhlnann and
ludendurft are at one upon tho
formula set down above. that their
power depends upon getting peace
lqulCklN, and upon maintaining the
! prestige OF the militarist state. They
/ naturally fan out over details The
! lenerat STAFF In Inclined TO Increase
/ Ifrightfulnoss. "a make more great at.
tackH. To rtdOuhle tho military pres
sure, the civilian authorities are
| fearful Of the effect ~ more terrible
Losses upon the people, and Inclined
To- trust In intrigue and bargaining
10 effect what Ludendorff seeks to
accomplish by force
The conflict between the military
and civilian autocTuts came To "A
head over the submarine issue. The
military won. and brought In Amer.
lea, on the promise that they would
starve England In siG months. The
unexpected activity OF the United
States and the failure OF the Hubma-
rine TO accomplish its task disUred-
itod the military. party, increased the
power OF the political leaders. and
lrcaultcd I'm tho cCnclllatory tone
adopted at thn beginning Of the
negotiations with Ku$ia.
Now, however the scale has
tipped again l<uhlman and Ger
min nvowed that II given free
hand at Berst-I.ltoVsk. they would
lIolshsvlk. Trotaisy has turned tho
tables. used tho conference to spread
revolutionary propaganda among
tho German and Austrian peoples.
cnuEed strikes and incipiant mutinies,
manoeuyred the negotiations so Ms
to show to the central European
workers the predatory aims OF their
masters and tho insincority OF the
democratic formulas they mouth
| From the beginning the Laden
dorf party opposed the political of
fcnsivc agalnSNl tuHsla. now they are
able tu Anecr W%he disoOmforture OF
| kuhlmahn and Czcrnin and more
over the spread of strikes aud reyo-
lutionnry propaganda has tended 10
enable the military TO assume more
control over the direction OF home
| affairs. Accordingly the supreme.
control OF policy is at this writing
more In tho hands OF tho groat gen
cral staff than at any time since the
days Of the victorious rush into
France that was ended by the battle
OF the MaVue
A. we stld. however, the war aims
OF ludendOrff and kuhlmann are,
identical, The great general STAFF
have lcprncd from official sources
which have drawn upon the real
opinion not manufactured for of the
war lords, iE scared and badly scared |
IL has given up itH aim OF dOminat-
ing the world, for tho present. |
Fholved It's ambitious plans Of 1914
1 ntil next timo. and resigned itself
to hope of Meathering the revolu-
tionary storm by maintaining Its
prestige
The real peace terms OF tho Ger
man RutocracN therefore, can he
Hunmod up In the Russian formula
nf mo annexations ana lndemnitieH."
II is supreme irony that the German
STAFF ghuuld cone to this phrase
first used by paciflHts, but II Ia the
truth. The GHrnan leaders how
ever, will face revolution before
they viii oede AlecCc. or the Tren-
tino, or even Palestine or Meso-
poiamia. or th,Nr own colonies. since
the smallest concession. without
something received In exchange,
would he an admission OF defeat ana.
In their own opinion, result In their
overthrow
Bargains. by which colonies were
exchanged. territory taken here and
given there, the general staff woHhi
eagerly consider, because loss OF
prestige would not be involved But
no agreement on democratic lines In
volving consent by Germany Austria
or Turkey TO permit subject peoples
to decide their own dcNtlnies can he
considered by the war lords. For
this too, would imply defeat
Hence when the subject IL men
toned, thy invariably reply. and will
continue to sav until the end. that
the principle Of self f-determinatlun
n admitted must be applied gen
orally. not only to the territory Of
tho central powers: must be carried
out In Ireland II IN Alsace, I'm India
" In Bohemia, In Egypt and Morocco
n In Posen and the German colonies.
The real war aim OF the dominat- |
ing caste in Germany ia to get out
with their power unimpaired. II,
they stick TO these territorial points !
II Is because TINY feel convinced that
TO give way would mean their ruin. !
What are the int Crnnl forces that
have thrown into fame the war lords 1
aIi their bureaucratic assoCiitea'
German BaolshcVlk Party,
They are complex, but, my in |
formation makes clear vastly more
powerful than IL realized hy the al. |
lied publiAf There iS In Austria and |
Germany 4 Bolsheyik party that is [
working for the social revolution. ltl
has secured an enormous hold upon |
the people in Austria and Hungary, /
and the rcpree-lNe measures adopted /
In Oermary have only resulted in |
spreading the contagion thru the |
fa'herland The Austrian and Ger |
man strikes we're fOrmented, not by !
the Socialist parties, but nv the rcNo-
m'ionists and the Socialist leaders !
associated themselves with the /
strikes merely To turn them into safe /
channels and stifle them at tho EARL |
est possible moment
In addition TO the revolutionary /
agltBtors who hy word Of mouth and /
anonymous phanphlrts are spreading !
the gospel ~ Lenin and Trutsky am
over Germany, Tho Socialist parties
are seeking 20 evolve genuinely M. |
srui stage From the point ~ view l
OF the putocracy. this r. only one
shade hattpr than yolehPvlk proua-