Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-09
EUROPEAN NEUTRALs
AND GERMAN VICTORY
iheir Position Would he Fraught
with Extreme Danger Constant
Is, Declares Diplomat.
WOULD MEAN ANOTHER WAR
EVEN IL Germany Got So Much OF
what She Wanted, She Would Not
hemain Quiet, Taking the 1871
campaign AS Lesson.
Icy \ DIi,I.OaIAr.

N'ie achieved and have see" .nat 1t
would probably mean the division OF
'h" world into two sections. Between
'hese sections stand the European
neItrals But they would not be as
thcy wcre before 1914. They know
no" difficult their position has been in
va: II would be far more difficult
in peace, for the pressure on them Of
the mere dead weigh, of the Central
European biock-it would be, on the
hypothesis. n Central and Eastern
European block--would be great.
OF course. the idea would be put
about that II Germany go, 30 much Of
what she wanted Germany would re-
rain f.uiet. Eui we have heard. that
before In 1871 Germany had achieved
al! she desired, and Bismarck's view
VAS that thcnceforth her chief interest
would he peace and the retention of
what she had got. She had fulfilled
her aims. she could now treat her
heishbors deccntly The sequel was
that she plunged the world into the
present war II history teaches any
thing, 1t tea :ller that the thirst for
power. once reused. is insatiabie. the
appetite grows by what IT feeds
Germany, If she did create her great
European block, would. Of course, pro-
claim once again that. now that She
had what she wanted her interest was
peace. and thai she would treat her
helehbors deccntly. II would not last,
any ~ IRE than II ,,s.u afer ls7l VIC
near much at the moment Of anneXa-
tloniSts aud antianneNationlsts In Ger
many Eat NC see no genuine anti
nnneNationists except the minority So
cia!iS'r Hrcst l.i,ovrl. vas shown this
rl"inly enough. There is no difference
a. to the end. but only as TO the means.
General Hoffman would annex Couriand
ana Lithuania by direct means: Herr
'"n ru.h!na': hopes TO atne> tam
hy Indirect means Tha, is all
There Is passage ia Kuc!mann's
Europe speech. delivered IN the Main
Committee Of the Keicns,ag on Sep,cm-
Der .. last which bears very strously
on what We ha.c said Il do not" he
aa!d lay too much IN affirming that
for none % the states in this anc!crt
Europe lie. Europe before the war;
SAG the situation. as IL mad existed
for the past forty years. 80 unbearabI.
taat it must he upso, a, the risk Of
sslf-destruc,ion."
C4u there be any gravc~ Indictment
Of tho Germany which forced this war
on the world? ANA What the th!rat Tor
power thus brought about in 1914 i;
would bring ubou, again. though pos
g1ly by other means than war. There
IS an Old story which expresses the
German spirit 80 exactly that IL IL
worth telling again 1t is told by
rlutarch IN his Life % pyrrhus.'
Pyr.hus Is discussing future poitcy
With his counsellor C!ncas. First"
said Pyrrhus, Il VIII conquer Mace
donia Good" replied Cincas: what
them" Then" said the King. Il shall
become master OF Greece" Good
again; what them" Then | wil! con-
quer Rome Well" said Ctnea..
what them" Then / will conque-
Carthage" And VIVA; them" Then"
said Pyrrhus, there vii! be no more
10 do, we can live III peace and enjoy
ourselves" And what" asked cineas,
binders US from doing that today"
Tina, is the end OF all wars OF amb:-
ZION. 10 get TO where you were Win.
out any wars 1T al. What kuclmann
said is in effect what Cincas said: moth
ing hindercd Germany in 1914 from en-
joyimg her position. But that did n:
prevent the thirst for power taking ii;
course; and Il viii not prevent ii
again.
For, once formed. the Contra Euro
pear block would do all in its power
10 secure the neutral States. 1t would
not necessarNy be by conquest: mill
tary conquest may not be the form the
future VIII take. But Germany has so,
TO secure new helds for her commerce.
for III the circumstances We have ra-
sun ed she would nave the greatest d't-
hculty in restoring her overseas trade"
and the neu.rai states would o> very
nee. ssary TO her AS substitutes. She
would. OF course. Try the power d az
traction. ana we need MT nnde'rate
the attrao.ion--the graNi'a'ionai pull
Of the vast ccAtrai block We know
what form IL "o"'c '"fs
The suggestion Wou'u Dc mat ''er-
many was th' cha'hr'oa OIL EUROPE
against Ans 'o-SaNoh""h an" 'ha- an
Europeans must s'ahu lose'"e !"
Their own interest that tff ini!iE, III