The Washington herald., 1919-06-01
Dual Kingdom Missed Cl1anceto Make World
Safe for Monarcklies, Declares Max Harden
League of States Would
Have Had Important In
Auence Upon Civiliza-
ton of World.

before the superior strength of the
enemy became unbearable-
Under Anglo-Russian pressure
Serbia acts wisely. even TO self
denial 1t accepts everything in the
demand that is in any
way bearable and it places its case
before the conscience of the world.
The question was: Ought peace to
be refused merely because two con-
ditions appeared which could not be
met by Serbia?
Under German pressure, the Haps-
burglar timidity and caution be-
came blind and raging arrogance.
From the vestibule of a triumph
which for a generation could have
assured reconciliation with Russia
Austria Hungary lets itself be in
cited and driven t. its death
With an almost humble telegram OF
the Car Nicholas begging for media
ton, and with Sir Edward Grey's SOL
emn pledge of concord. two principal
marck. the Imperial Government de-
clares war on Russia and France; and
when. after England's declaration,
Prince Buelow pointed out the menac-
ing seriousness of the situation. Herr
Won Bethmann-HolIwega answered him
light-heartedly. like Olivier in 1870:
Your Highness. it's a violent but a
hrief thunderstorm
Bismarck's Experience.
] said at the time to Prince Buelow:
fou are having the same experience
now as Bismarck once had. / once
heard him groan as Prince Hohen-
lohe. the third chancellor. was rather
clumsily fiattering Russia: Now they
are doing my policy. but stuSidly'
Your Bosnian laurels have lured
them"
After the brief thunderstorm has
lasted four years Austria-H Hungary
collapses because the dynasty surren-
dered itself and young Kaiser Karl.
with his own hand, broke the clamps
that held the empire together.
The same hour sees the death of
Turkey. whose people are starved.
whose brigand rulers. even with the
divining rod. could not find any
more gold in Germany. and for whose
only serious politician. Talaat. the
game is spoiled after-the Rumanis n
port of Constanza is promised to the
Bulgarians. who are thereby CIV, n
first mortgage on Constantinople.
The many-stoTied air castle OF our
foreign policy. literally a skys re ~
er. collapses. Lust for prestige kills
what lust for prestige crcat' d.
Baron Marschall. a jurist. who had
made himself impossible in the For
eign Office. had as ambassador in
ConstantinoplC. begun flattering the
Turk, in order to raise his own name
from ridicule to fam..
All for naught; loves labor lost.
Relations with the Western powers
completely spoiled via Turkey: Rus
sia thrown into chaos. thereby de-
priving Eastern Germany of its
main market. and the two living
many took up arms ripe for final
burial.
"Neyer Suspected Outcome.r
This outcome the Potsdam Council
never suspected as. on July 6. 1914.
it decided to begin military prepara-
tions for a war which seemed lin
evitable" to honest militarists. be-
cause the Franco AnClo-Russian pool
formed A dam against German eX-
pansion.
Otto II. Kahn. the well-known New
York financicr. wrote TO n Berlin
friend in the first year of the war:
You did not make the possessors
of inherited advantages your enemies
hy successful competition with them,
although that fact was sure TO nc
mighty uncomfortable for them. and
they had finally discounted it; but be-
cause you spoke in such a manner,
wrote. acted and painted such pic
lures of the future before their eyes
that they became deeply anxious and
frightened"
Treaty Analysed.
No unprejudiced person can now
contradict this truth Versailles now
presents the bill Sixty per cent of
IL is the inevitable consequence of so
long a war. waged with such vio-
lence: 90 per cent is lust for revenge
and 20 per cent must he booked 10
the i'll feeling of the competitor who
exploits the opportunity Of the day
of Judgment to cut of all rivals from
Men who share the blame for the
war and who are still governing in
Germany endeavor. in order TO con-
ceal their own blame from their par
tisans. to persuade the people that
the whole bill is only the result of
enemy treachery. That is false. base
lie. and criminal demaGoGucry.
Hns Faith In U. :.
Hundreds of thousands of Berlir
workingmen. Independent Socialists. Z
colossal army with gnawinS stomachs
have manifested a will to atone fol
everything. These people deserve t.
be trusted. even IL the unclean gov
ernment of a day may not. and they
can recover only in and through {
world of trust.
its pus. The Star Spangled Banner
near us in the Orient. will become {
European flag. The gushing worlC
spring of humanity, as President vii
sons noble soul dressed it, may be
come a reality.
Shall Germany's young instinct fol
the worthy solidarity of humanity
now freeze in solitary coldness?
Shall the sins Of the fathers, OF thu
princes and courtiers, be avenged OF
the innocent, or at least on the peni
tent?
Shall a league OF nations remain
tense and offensive alliance?
Open the gate. and prove under YOU
guardian eye the sincerity OF our gooC
will.