New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
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Protestant and Roman Catholic dis
tricts The women voted as the priests
and the pastors advised them. Across
the Rhine in the occupied district a
French officer told me that in the
Palatinate in many cases Germans
came to the French officers and asked
them how they should vote.
All Disorders Are
Confirmed by Travellers
Now, one has to set against this all
these many signs Of disintegration and
disorder testified to by all travellers,
another circumstance which is exciting
equally universal attention, namely, a
/ return of the old arrogance, the old
( defiance, the thing that puzzled the
world before the war and aroused it
during the conflict. After the period
of detection Immediately following the
defeat, the German was for a moment
contemplate creature He was
stunned. He whined where he used to
'hluster. He was abject where once he
was arrogant
K An American civilian recently re-
s,,,tnrned from Vienna supplies an inter
testing account of this transformation
While he was in Vienna be talked with
Germans, with correspondents coming
out of Germany and read the pro- Ger
man Austrian papers, and was more
,and more impressed, as so many others
have been, by the fact that all lthis
testimoney indicated Germany did not
regard herself as beaten.
Intelligent men explained to him
that Germany got out of France be-
cause she wished to shorten her lines:
that she was in; no way beaten mill
tarlly, but, on the contrary, came to the
conclusion that it was time to stop. and
therefore quit. Her economic situation
was bad, the morale low, the Bolshe-
vik propaganda and. the effect of the
blockade on the civilians are held
responsible for the armistice. The
armies did not lose the war. The revo-
luton and the civilian collapse behind
the lines were responsible. RS = . -.
I : 'Evensmore interesting and,significant,
is the testimony of this Vienna visitor
upon the question of German coursa
win respect to peace terms. testimony
Tor which l have found much confirma-
tlon IN Paris. A Vienna newspaper re-
Gently printed from it's Berlin CORE
spondent, German professor. the
frank statement that if the peace terms
are not satisfactory the Germans will
refuse to sign them, relying upon the
inability of the Allies to do an ything.
Ihey count upon the desire of all the
soldiers to go home, the reluctance to
resume lighting and upon the propa-
ganda of Rolshevik nature which thew
have been trying to spread through the
troops OF occupation. In his opinion
the greatest danger of all is to he
found in the fact that the German ar
rogance, the spirit of crooked. immoral
seihshness of the unrepentant sinner.
is growing in Berlin, and that con-
seriousness of her strength is increas
ing IN proportion to the length of the
discussion between the Allies,
10 quote the comment made bv a
conspicuous Vienna editor, himself a
Liberal: "You couldn't expect the Ger
mans to go to sleep Monarchists and
wake up Republicans"
The greater the delay in making
peace the greater the danger of seri-
Gus social disturbances all ovor +h n
world, and the longer the delay the
stronger Germany gets and the more
she hopes to profit by our weakness.
From Berlin there comes to me a
clear statement that German policy at