Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-15

takes the view of the German general
staff that the original German peace
offer might as well have been accepted
as any progress of allied arms against
Germany is impossible. Mistral writes:
ut is thought possible that the allies
may be beaten, or is it still thought
possible that the enemy may be
crushed? Exterminizers have always
clamored for brutal victory by arms
and nothing but arms.
To-day we have no longer any fear
that the entente may abuse its victory,
alasl We do not believe that the
mad projects of the enemy will be
broken by the resistance of our SOL
diers. Then whether we desire it or
not we will surely have to make that
peace which we disdained year ago."
What other name but "defeatism"
could be given to this point of view?
In order to accept it we have either
to suppose that the German govern
ment has won no military advantage
in the war, that it has become mag
unanimous and can be dealt with, or
that it cannot be defeated-while on
the contrary, the allies must accept
that defeat which would inevitably
follow the ending of the war on the
basis of the present military situa-
ton.
The issue of May contains an arti-
ing that each and every German peace
offer should have been accepted. His
organ had already published a num-
Der Of articles supporting the Aus
trian government and their peace offer
as against the position of the French
government. Longuet continues:
But there were other occasions
perhaps less tempting but which
nevertheless were good occasions for
negotiating-which were likewise lost
and systematically perverted. In the
autumn of 1916 President Wilson Of
fered his good Offices" Longuet here
wishes his readers to forget that
President Wilson has publicly and re-
peatedly acknowledged since this time
that the German diplomats had been
false in each and every one of the i'm
portant positions they had taken
about peace! Longuet has not forgot
ten this fact. He simply suppresses
1t as being inconvenient. This is the
morality of the fanatic, "the end JUS
titles the means"
Longuet then proceeds to mention
still further favorable occasions for
peace negotiations as follows: en-
ternational Socialism unanimously
wishes to go to Stockholm. Brutally
the road was closed to it." Ut was
President Wilson who closed this
road.)
Then Came the BOlshevik.
In the meanwhile the pope had adj
dressed eloquent appeals to the bel
ligerents based on the limitations of
our ornaments and compulsory arbi-
tration. The allies did not reply.
The Austrian and German govern
ments replied favorably. President
the allies endorsed his reply.
"Then came the Bolsheviki. Trot-
sky addressed desperate appeals to
the allies that they should not leave
him alone face to face with the Ger
mans at Brest-Litovsk. They would
not even condescend to reply to him."
So it seems that the Germans and the
Bolsheviki are not to blame for the
result of Brest-Litovsk The allies
bore the blame, and the Bolsheviki
view of peace and international rela-
tions is justified!
FINALLY President Wilson an
nounced his fourteen conditions Of a
just peace. Quite a large number Of
reception" According even to Ger
man Socialist sources the number Of
the German press supporting Wilson's
peace terms was small at the begin
ming and has been growing smaller
every day. Longuet is thoroly in touch
with German Socialist organs and his
statement is therefore bare-faced
prevarication.
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