The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-01
ASSAULTS MADE ON WILSON DIPLOMACY
 PURELY POLITICAL
But Admission is Freely Made That His Tactics
 Are Highly Successful
px uuGu w. ROBERTS

Washington. october a.-(Special)-Fo partisan reasons. partisan republicans are openly assaiMng President Wilson's diplo- macy They declare that the President would make other terms with Germany than those which call for unconditionai surrender.
 At the same time, it is the opinion or Washington that Germany Will pc brought to terms only when Germany IS in such plight that Germany must uh- conditionaHy surrender "Rhetoric' which is deeried by MT. Roosevelt ana certain republican senators who are es- sentially politicians, has simply ioppea from the German tree the boughs of Aus tria, Rumania and Turkey, and put Ger man in such position that sooner than any one, some months ago, dreamed, she must surrender internationally.
 It Is not believed in Washington that Germany will accept the terms under which the supreme council sitting at Versailles will offer an armistice. If she does, she will surrender on the spot It | is believed that Germany will select to fight-on to the bitter end. Diplomacy 1 at which the republicans have laughed
 
 ward satisfaction. has deprived Germany of support from Austria and Turkey and precipitated what Is tantamount 10 ! revolution within the German empire it | self. All of which means that Germany, although determined to fight even to l the bitter end, cannot fight much longer. It is the opinion of military men in | Washington that Germany must crack sooner than any other army would crack | even when deprived of invaluable as-' sistance. The German army is likened l to that variety of a football team WHICH, | in victorious hours displays strength anu prowess which cannot Dc matched-pne when, up aga inst the real article,' with CTS and turns up it's toes. This com parison is especially apropos in view or the fact that the German machine has been trained to obey commands rather than think for itself distinguishes army officer, who saw service under General Meade, said to the correspondent of The Age Herald today.
 Let 1t not be supposed that the Ger man army is beaten. 1t is outnumoered. It is in such position that the end may be forecast. But if the German army was an American army, officered no more efficiently than the German army is officered 1t could and would fight Tor many months longer than the German army. There is reason. Germany mas l builded machine-not an army com posed of intelligent integral parts. II the German army is licked. the indivlo- ual soldier shrugs his shoulders and de- clares the army beaten. If an American
 army Is beaten, the individual soldiel feels that he, himself, Is disgraced- There is the difference and 1t is essential As to the value of Wilsonian diplomacy l there is difference of opinion. Criticism
 however, is partisan. There are thos'
 who believe, following the war, that VII
 son will be shown up as bungler. Thert
 are others who believe that 1t Will p'
 proved that he was able to think year,
 in advance of his fellows and that Lu
 for his genius the war, with indescrip
 able suffering. would have been pro
 longed indefinitely.
 In the meantime, there is satisfaction II 1 official circles that German vassa
 states are falling off, and that the grea
 uncrackable German machine IS crack
 ing-and cracking audibly