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Would Require Change of Heart.

AS to Germany and her associated
powers, he advocated that they be
denied "our friendship and trade re-
lations until they have given proof
of such change of heart as to be
worthy of our friendship"
Mr.. de Billy contrasted the French
| surrender at Paris in 1871, which
won the respect Of our enemies and
the world" and which kept alive for
fifty years the love for France of
acceptance of most humiliating"
| terms when her army was retreat
ing in good order and not an enemy
stood on German soil. The motive
behind the Teuton capitulation, he
asserted. was the hope of being able
what they could not win through
| fighting-a division in allied unity.
| Their familiar methods were already
discernible. he said, in their appeals
to the victors for mitigation of the
armistice terms and in their attempts
concerning the supposed aims of some of
them.
! ITO Prussianize Germany required
half a century. the Frenchmen as
serted, and time would be needed, he
predicted, to bring the German peo-
| play-eVen to realization of de-
feat. They must have evidence. he
said. that the world distrusts them;
distrusts their socialist leaders, who
supported the militaristic government
as long as it was winning; distrusts
| the tcamouf1age of democracy" which
he declared was attempting to cloak
the power in control of Germany
1.-The same power for evil which
sought to subject the whole world to
| the rule of brute force
Says Beware Of Germany.
| Declaring that until peace was
signed according to our just pur-
pose" the allies must beware of Ger
many, Mr.. De Billy said.
LAS long as We live under condi-
lions Of mere armistice, as long as
the questions of boundaries and rela-
tons among nations remain unsettled,
we cannot start work as though new
| era had begun. We should be very
| unwise to imagine that our goals
already are attained The same men
| power will, now that their armies are
defeated, continue the fight on
different battlefield. AgaiINt our
aims, during the armistice as during
the war, we shall find, no longer
| standing upright, but sneaking, the
spirit of German kultur.
"VoiceS are raised, trying to appeal
! to the sentimentality Of our men and
| women: We were fighting German
autocracy.' they say: now the autoc-
| racy is no more. why not open our
| arms to the German democracy?
Thus it is that during the lulI of
the armistice defeated Germany. en-
! deavors still to deceive her enemies.
I use the word deceive and can use
no other. No one knows what is go
! ing on in Germany: whether in the
present civil struggle the advantage
will remain with the Spartacus party
or with those who want to establish
| an orderly government. I sincerely
hope the latter will succeed and this,
of course. is the interest of the Ger
man eople. But although desiring
! that those men who have made the
German revolution remain at the
head Of the German government. let
| US not forget that they belong to the
| same sort as those who have ruled
Germany during past years. The i'm
pending future of Germany appears to
! be disorder or organization. and the
| latter would not be without danger to
| us. as it would be conducted in the
Prussian, not the true democratic,
| spirit"