New-York tribune., 1918-12-17
Germany IN Stripes
BY Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
(From The Protectiomist)

of Germany for d cause they hated and
under n people ana government they
loathed?
They must be set free and must help to
form great barrier to the plan of Ger
many for q route from Hamburg to the
Persian Gulf. Then comes POLAND.
The Ne.o Poland
The President, in the twelfth of his
fourteen points, made most definite dec
laration about Poland. It must be largo
Poland 1t must take in all the Polish
people in the regions where the Polish
people are predominant. 1t must take in
Austrian Poland, Russian Poland and Ger
man Poland. 1t must have, the President
says, an access to the sea. The great river
Vistula is populated on both sides by
Poles, until you reach the Baltic, and there
ou meet the city of Danzig, which is
German city, and that is the only piece of
German territory that l would propose to
take. I would take that city from Ger
many and build up a great Polish state.
That will be barrier between Germany
and Russia and will be help and a pro-
lection to Russia.
The Bultic and Schles,cig-Holstein
Now we come round to the Baltic. The
Baltic must not be a German lake any
more. Along the Baltic lie the Lithuani-
ans, another fine people, people Of pure
Aryan stock, and moth of them are the
Let's and the Esthonians, and further up
the Firms. Those states, if can pos
sibly arrange it, must be helped to estab
Ech tboir nd in hat
you control the Eastern Baltic. Now we
come to one of Germany's earlier pieces Of
robbery, Scheswig- Hostein. do not say
give back Schleswig Holstein, but do say
that we should give back the Danish
Schleswig, and with it an internationalized
Kiel Canal. Let that be done.
Do those things l have described, and the
world will rest in ease Of German attack
for many century to come. And yet, ex-
cept Danzig, | have not proposed TO take q
foot of German territory. ] am not, of
course, speaking of the territories she has
stolen but have left out one very i'm
portant thing and it does not occur in the
fourteen points of the President, and that
is reparation.
MARSHAL Foch, who is evidently a man OF
excellent memory, has not wholly forgot
ten reparation. He has provided in the
mistice for the return to Belgium of the
money they took from the Belgian banks;
also for the gold they stole from Russia
and Rumania. But we must go further
than that. We must have reparation. We
must have indemnities. There rs some in
demnity coming to US but nothing like
what is due to the others But there must
be indemnity for the Lusitania and for our
ships that have been torpedoed
But we need net be uneasy about indem-
nifty to the United States. We have got
all the German ships and have go.
S700 600 900 worth of German property IN
our keeping at this moment and have an
impression that our claims will al be paid.
But our sutferings are trivia! compared
with those of Belgium and France.
lndemnities to NemtraIs
Those great wrongs must, so far as
money can do it, be repaid It will take a
great deal of money, and they say that
Germany IS bankrupt but l think that is a
debt she can ply. She herself has sug-
gested the method Take some cautonary
towns Take if necessary, some caution
ary territory see Marshal Foch has
taken forty kilometres on the right bank
of the Rhine the eastern bank and will
hold them until the indemnity is paid
There is indemnity due not on.y to Bel
giun and France--there is indemnity due
to England, who has suffered so enormous
ly in her shipping; 18 per cent of it de-
stroyed by torpedoes. There is indemnity
due to some of the neutrals. Are you
aware that they have destroyed 46 per cent
of Norwegian shipping. paying no atten-
ton whatever to international law? OF
that country, neutral country, small but
with splendid people, they have taken
nearly half of their tonnage by the sub
marine campaign. 1t must be paid for.
The ships be paid for; the lives can
not Arrangements must be made for a
suitable indemnity.
Keep German Colonies
And the colonies had better not go back
to Germany If you would read, as | have
read account given by the Bishop Of
Zanzibar of the way in which the Germans
have treated the native population of East
Africa, it would make you shudder. Moth
ing in the days of slavery could possibly
have been worse. Those helpless people
ought not to be returned to Germany.
Moreover, I see no reason why she should
have the help to rebuild her shipping. Let
it go where the Allies and the United
States decide.
AsrDToy,es