The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-01

| everything for his country if need be-
 SAW HOPE OF RESISTANCE These were fine and stim ulating words, which convinced me that the chancellor,
 the Reichstag and G. H. Q. were fully
 agreed as to continuing the fight if the
 worst came to the worst But it seemed
 that the chancellor and the Reichstag
 failed to realize that every German had been engaged since 1914 in a fight for 1 his life, and that this fight demanded avery sacrifice from us all. The clear
 consciousness of this had been lost among the thousands of catchwsrds with | Which both from inside and outside the | soul of the German people was poisoned It was not until May, 191O when the incredible peace terms were published. | that this fact really penetrated the peo- pie and the national assembly. Again l the self-sane president of the Reichstas Q spoke, using noble and moving words. which seemed like a call to instant ac tion; but the official report did not dare l to repeat them. This time. too. how ever, the words rested bare words. But lhe situation was there in which the country should have answered their call PEOPLE COULD STILL DO MORE
 Prince Max had so far done nothing since his speech of October 3 to carry out the intentions he then stated therefore in my conference with him put the necessary question.
 On the same day I was present at q meeting of the war cabinet The uues- tlonnaire was discussed. I, too, put my questions. Everything was gone over No particular resolutions were come to Walther Rathenau's article in the vos- sche Zeitung on the Levee en Massa w.s also discussed
 Such catchwords mean Iittv. f. m. lho position was quite different iron, ""t or le8O-7I. Strength and energy.
 however were in truth available among sg our people. and had to be
 thrown into the fight. There were mus mus some who agreed with my view sAat the GeIman people, in spite of all that 1t had done, could still do more.
 The pity of it was that they had moi come forward before.
 IL seemed to be particularly charac- terlstlc, and filled me with new hone that men who in other respects held the same views as myself, should be uihg Tor the continuation of the struggle.
 At the end of the cabinet meetinr Prince Max thanked me for coming Wlth the approval of the field marshal l stated expressly in a short answer Ing speech that we would loyalty sup port the new government.
 Tn the evening various leading men III puolic life came to see me for short moments, and asked me whether CLIO had really brought about the offer of peace and armistice. I answered most emphatlcally that this was corrsct as l had aiready communicated to the pub nc Dy the press interview of October when there was no longer any military damage to be feared from the dis Giosure. owed such a declaration to frince Max's government It was not my function to explain to these gen tiemen any further what I thought and felt on the matter
 ANSWER TO WILSON'S NOTE ~ The government and CLIO were quite in agreement over the answer to Wilson's first note.
 I managed to have inserted in thi. answer . question as to whether France and England also took their stand on the IA points.
 CLIO. had nothing to do with the matters of internal politics discussed. nor could we approve the tone of the note.
 It seemed to show m undixnified haste to jettisOn everything which had hitherto been sacred to us. Our enc. mics must have marked with satla- faction the way in which we brought ourselves ever nearer to our own ruin On October IF the second note to Amer lea was dispa tched.
 All over the world the talk of a peace Of reconciliation, with it's ideaHstic catchwords. died suddenly down. That was after all not surprising, for the press of the world was following the hints of the enemy propaganda, which was itself abandoning the use of the phrase. The entente had achieved it's object by the use of the word, and could. now throw off the mask and work for peace of force.
 In Germany, too. the word took a more modest place. The men who hitherto preached the doctrine, and had represented peace of justice and con- ciliation as perfectly possible and easy of achievement, had not now the moral courage to confess that they were mis- taken as to the enemy's intentions that they had led the people astray and brought them to their ruin. They were or some of them were, ready to speak in thoroughly un-German language of Wilson's 14 points as a peace of jus tice.
 So far had we trodden the path of ! disgrace already. OPENLY ATTACK LUDENDORFF l
 They began strong agitation | against myself, alleging that | had now. by undue haste in the armistfce | offer. brought the people to new mis- fortunes, after previously making all | peace Impossible b3 the extravagance