Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-13
ARM|ST|CE IS JUST ANOTHER
 PAPER SCRAP
"Kultur" Still Wants to Reign, and the American People are Not to Rush to Peace Pursuits Prema- turely.

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 1 Baltimore. Dec. 12.-Edward Be 1 billyn French high commissioner. de- 1 clared in an address prepared by him and read before the Southern Commercial Congress here, yesterday by Fl. Monod, general secretary of the French high commission. MT. Bebilly who was absent because of illness warned the American public "agains; rushing to resume the pursuits oi peace" before the end of the war. is proclaimed
 The German delegates signeds the armlstice agreement, which they regarded as another scrap of paper and for whose amendment they had already begun campaign of propa ganda, to save their territory sfron. invasion, he said. While giving them flair chance" he added, "the peace conference must take steps which would make it impossible for the TeutOns ever again to become a threat to peace and menace to liberal gov ernment"
 As further insurance against Ger man aggressions, the commissioner urged that the allied peoples devote their energies to strengthening the ties of friendship born out of sacri- flee toaa common cause. As steps towards this end he favored intellec- tual intercourse by the exchange of professors and students, development of international trade and financial enterprises and the exchange of pre- ferences in material activities be- tween the nations thus spiritually united"
 As to Germany and her associated ToWers, he advocated tha: 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"
 The motive behind the Teuton capi- tulation, MT. Debilly asserted, was the hope of being able to accomplish through negotiation, what they could not win through fighting-a division in allied unity. Their familiar me- thods were already discernibla, he said, in their appeals to the victors for mitigation ofthe .armistice terms, and in their attempt to excite suspi- sion among the allies concerning the supposed aims of some of them.
 To 'PrussianiZe" Germany required half century, the Frenchman asert- ed, and time would be sneeaed, he predicted, to bring the German peo- ple back to all appreciation of fair play-even to realization of defeat. They must have evidence, he said, that the world distrusts them, dis trusts their socialist leaders who sup ported the militaristic government as long as it was winning, distrusts the "camouflage of democracy" which, he declared, was attempting to cloak the power in control of Germany. "the same power for evil which sought to subject the wnole woryG to the rule of brute force"
 Declaring that until peace was signed, according to our just pur- pose" the allies must beware of Germany, MT. Bebilly said:
 "As long as we live under con- ditions of mere armistice, as long as the question of boundaries and relations among nations remain un- SSltleu,if we CdHuOC SJdTC WOfk as though a new era had begun. We should be very unwise to imagine that our goals already are attained The same men who opposed us, with their military power will, now that their armies are defeated. continue the fight on different battlefield. Against our aims, during the armis- tice as during the war;. we shall find, no longer standing upright, but the sneaking. the spirit of German kultur.
 Voices are raised, trying to ap- peal to the sentimentality of our men and women, We, were. fighting German autocracy.' they. said: now that autocracy is no more. why not open our arms to the German demo- cracy?'
 Thus it is that during the Hull of the armistice, defeated Germany en- deavors still to deceive her enemies. 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.