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HOW PRESS VIEWS
BERLIN'S ANSWER
Generally Viewed as Unsatisfactory,
| Good Faith of German Government
| Being Doubted.

Distrust of German good faith is
generally voiced in press comment OIL
lGerlin's latest answer to President
Wilson. The apparent concessions
which Germany makes are regarded
as inadequate.
Some typical comments follow:
New York rimes-"The Germans
have not yet learned to understand
much less speak our language of
agreement. We may regard their lat
est note as a German effort to meet
ihe Presidents demands. In part
it does move toward them. but halt
ingly and with evaslons, nqtably in
respect to the abandonment of inhu-
name practices contrary to the laws
of war on sea and land; but in other
parts it rings false, it is colored with
those deceptions and hypocrisies
which We have come to regard as in
separable from the processes of the
German mind"
New York Tribune-''If it (the
German answer does not raise such
a storm of disgust and anger as will
slam the door from this side hard
enough to drop the bolt and put an
end once and for all to these offend
ing negotiations, We shall all of us
deserve the consequences only
those of us who are responsible, but
those others also who for any reason
forbear TO speak their misgiyings
out"
New York Herald The one
thing certain about this reply is that
it measures exactly up to expectation.
From beginning to end there is in it
no element Of surprise. Banking up
on their ability to draw President
Wilson further into the mire of note
writing-wherein lies their one hope
of obtaining the negotiated, there
fore Prussian, peace for which they
are striving-the masters Of Germany
who are its same old masters, are
matching language with language
| New York Unsatisfactory
as this communication must be regar-
ded, we are bound to admit that 1t
shows progress. Berlin will come
again and again with its propositions
and capitulation will be the end of
haps not this year, but finally. In
the interval, no unnecessary Woro
should be used on our part in such
discussions as have recently been in
progress, .
/ New York Sun-'The great fact
that stands forth in the last note of
the present German Government is
the swift progress of that govern
ment in the direction of uncondition-
al surrender.
The apparent intent of these rap
idly rising bids for peace by the
present German Government is TO
bring the people it has so long delu-
ded, by successive and easy stages,
to a state of mind which shall realize
and accept the defeat now inevitable
without turning upon the dynasty
primarily responsible for the nation
al disaster and hummiliation ana
tearing the dynasty violently from
the seat OF power 1t has disgraced
and forfeited. This is essentially a
question between the HohenZollerns
and the German people"
: Baltimore American There Is
nothing in this note actually to pro-
mote peace; the evident disposition
of the German authorities is to give
. way step by step as they are forced
to do. The United States and its
. Allies have yet before them to follow
out the prescription of force without
stint or limit. And this will be fol
lowed until Germany has been brou-
ght to a full concession OF Ally and
American demands:
Chicago TFibune-"FTom the Ger
man response it is apparent that the
ruling powers at Berlin look COM
plete defeat in the face. 1t is newt
! able that Germany's representatives
will concede as little as they can
without running the danger of bring
ing the present diplomatic inter
changes to brusque close. There is
but one mind in America on this war
that it shall go on to victory, to
the utter destruction of PruSSlan
militarism.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat-"W What
ever it means, it is wholly unsatisfac
tory and wholly hypocritical. 1t does
not come to the point. 1t is a mere
: beating about the bush to gain time,
, to save the German face. Is 1T possible
that a despotism so strongly estab-
lished that it has shaken the world
to it's foundations can be overthrown
by a few men whispering in a cor,
ner? Can we yet believe that the
horns and the spiked tail of the beast
are not hidden beneath this lamb
like statement, with whom we are
dealing beyond a peradventure?"
Louisville Courier-Journal - III
its details and in its phrases the note
is unsatisfactory, vague in parts, ,ane
controversial in others. Also, it per
sists in theimpossible contention tha
Germany, while the Kaiser lives a
Potsdam and the Crown Prince com
mands in the field, should be treate'
as an honorable belligerent, and tha
a peace be concluded according t
,. German ideas of justice. The Unit
ed States and its allies will reject
= with all the force and vigor of thei
arms, those two contentious.
+ Galveston News-"The note is a.
u together unsatisfactory,
= Charlotte, N. c., Observer-"Th
:. reply, while both evasive and cor
tentious, yet shows a wavering in tn