The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-02
BERNHARDI NOT A PROPHET
ENERAL FREDERICK Won Bernhardi wrot

H 0 ed Germany and the Next War" It was dull book with imagination m it. It attempt to explain the plans High Command and their ideals They good plain going men, with capacity for of established things They had little inven veness them and not distinguished for ad ditons to the art of warfare beyond those already known when the began.
 Bernhardi did type of which would Germany Allies the French front The long line of trenches in which millions of i'm mobzed year after strange to him. though he tyro Bernhard gave adequate weight to the moral factors in the did not for development submarine the aeroplane, and pinned his faith to the movements of massed actuated by the "good old German spirit"
 In the area of morals he especially forsee the breakdown of the Empire through revolution the peoples who composed it.
 Because Bernhardi has been tried prophet and has been found wanting his present views the future of need not be seriously received all the that they show the comprehension material moral factors that lse showed when he wrote his book England and the United States He predicts between Ja pan United States predicts generally because he thinks that nations will always fight when they believe their important interests involved.
 of consideration he leaves such factors these
 That the recent brought such developments or and promised such in the potency of weapons threaten to make the next great war annihiative
 That the of increased enormously while the recent being carried threaten the exist private property and that another would probably extnguh private property that the propered classes for the most part against
 That the general effect of the to increase the uence of the workers the affairs of governments and hence increased the authority and of the social elements posed to
 quality Bernhardi's reasoning powers his discussion of tanks weapon "A who his victory O tanks" he sad would compared elephants King Praeus, created consternation.
 The elephants King Praeus being conscious creatures could stampeded driven sent hem doing the damage to friends that had intended for foes.
 tank is elephant but potent weapon, which it's place. precisely great has, not necessarily cve weapon but weapon that at any time become decisive.
 The decisive weapon in a battle may at one time be rifles
 
 air service. Everything depends upon conditions.
 Bernhardi does not fail to wipe his arguments against the of the League of Nations He The small Nations hava to up with it, but great Nation will allow other people to declare for them tell when they may not go to war"
 The General is not very logical in his thinking.
 Germany Federation Small States, which long declared war; refused declare it's will.
 Yet each of these States afterward German Empire through the German Emperor declare for them tell them when they might go war"
 The several small nations submitted of agree ment they made.
 Britain is a union of Nations each which formerly made will and which people them tell them war"
 things, refrain from doing hem keep agreements
 The League Nations is union effected un- agreement to prevent The history of the agreement
 When German States united they yielded rights to whole. is to yield many rights
 League Nations to which each Nation yields a few rights perpcIaon with certainty German Empire has it
 THE STRIKES IN BRIDGEPORT T HE STRIKES in Bridgeport ought to be promptly set