Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-31
HANG PROFITEERS
NOT EX-EMPE Error,
CRY IN ENGLAND
British Are More Interested in
Furnishing GraSping Mer-
chants Than They Are in
EX-KaiSer'S Trial,
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York Worldly
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London, Oct. 50.--Judglng by the
entire lack of interest shown by the
house of commons when Andrew Be-
mar Law stated that arrangements for
the former kaiser's trial are going for
ward pending demand on Holland
for his surrender there is neither hope
nor desire that this clause of the trea-
ty shall be made effective. Nor is there
any comment on Bonar Laws state
ment in today's newspapers.
Hang the war profiteers'' has be-
come a cry much nearer to the heart
of the British people than the old one,
Hang the Kaiser" Legal opinion, as
a whole, has been wholly hostile to the
attempt TO make the kaiser amenable
to an international court, and the de-
mand is really only a hangover from
the general election, when the voters
We're gulled with that and the other
exploded cry Germany must pay
every penny" An editorial in the Law
Journal, headed From the Viewpoint
of an International Lawyer" says:
Trial a Political Proceeding.
"The so-called trial of the ex-kaiser
is something with which the law has
no concern. 1t is a political act pure
and simple The charge against the
former kaiser is drawn with that
astute vagueness of which only the
modern politician with an eye on the
electorate is capable and the justice to
be administered is underlined, I'M
formulated and UNACCEPTABLE to any
conceivable set of circumstances"
There is no question about the gem
eral belief in the former kaiser's
4 l.
punishment that can be inflicted, but
after exhaustive research all the in
terallied legal pundits assembled in
Paris were unable to discover any le-
gal means of getting him to the bar
of justice.
Must Reckon With Holland,
Holland has intimated she can sur
render him only on proof of an ex-
traditable offense, which these pun
dts have confessed themselves unable
to formulate. There is authority stat
ing, moreover, that Holland, when
formally sounded about her attitude,
informed Great Britain it would really
be doing the allies a service to refuse
to give him up because his trial would
involve them in a hopeless tangle with
dangerous consequences to themselves.
ItllS view Is NluCSpA NeAu hNANt
still, of course. as Great Britain aided
France in inserting the trial clause
in the treaty, she is bound to go
through the motions of preparing for
an eventuality which is most unlikely
to arise. No decision has been reached
and no serious governmental consid-
Grafton has been given to the ques-
ton of the location of the trial Eng
land France and Belgium each re-
CARDS it's claim as unanswerabie.
Long Delay at the Best.
On the assumption that the decision
will be given for England, specula-
ton busted itself some time ago be-
tween the conflicting claims of Lon
don. as the capital of the British em-
pire and as the most convenient place
for witnesses from the continent ana
Scapa Flow, for the dramatic effect
of finishing the kaiser on the stage
where his fleet made its final APP
pearance. Here, British law officers
would of course, conduct the prose-