El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-03-26
GERMANY To Be
WORSE WHEN?
More Dangerous After
Revolution or After Re
action, Which?
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: eral testimony 10 the fact that Ger
! man adherence Of BolsnevIsm is uni
I versal and yet there is equally frank
recognition Of the fact that many
circumstances in the German situa-
tion point towards q repetition OF the
Russian march towards anarchy.
! DR.. Afuehlou. almost the first con-
spicuous German 20 break with ms
! country and announce TO the world
the responsibility Of Germany for
the war, not long ago told an Ameri-
can delegation on the way to Ger
many that they would find there a
/ complete moral bankruptcy They
thought him unduly pessimistic, but
they returned convinced Of the sad ac-
curacy Of his statement. NOT is il
less clear that east OF the Rhine the
situation steadily wOrsens-
Germany must be fed. No one
questions this. hut the very feed
ing contributes 10 n further de-
cay OF the desire TO work
i We have after all a clear case Of
moral, economic and political eZhaus-
ton. Men who talk with American
missions on the future OF Germany
Indicate quite frankly that at least
five years must pass before Germany
I can reOrganize herself under most
favorable circumstances and play a
self supporting part in the economic
/ world
German Organization Survives.
And yet again in the midst Of all
I this testimony OF confusion and dis
J Indignation. there is equally impress
| sive testimony 10 the fact that in
/ certain directions. German organiza-
I tion survived 7 asked Mr. Hoover
today what was being done for Po-
land. He said he was sending five
3 trains a day from DantziE 10 Warsaw.
When I asked him II the Ger
ficult. he laughed and said on the
contrary they were doing every
thing to facilitate this work. for
the obvious purpose Of proving
that n they were permitted TO re-
/ tain DantEiE there would be no
/ interference with Polish uecesE
TO the open sea and communica-
tiOn with the western allies.
When one thinks OF the utter con-
Z fusion in the railway traffic OF all
I OF Europe and the practically COM
plete paralysis OF German railway
] traffic, It IS clear how great and
/ skilful maneuver IS this German IA
cilitation OF the feeding Of Poland.
Stu another contrast East OF the
. Rhine, German arrogance grows daily.
3 but west OF the Rhine in the occupied
Z districts the German manner has be-
! come a marvel 10 every Freuchman
and TO every EnElishman. The French
army Of occupation is treated by the
4 natives NUL jill ALE spirit LAAaA r rance
treated the German army OF occupa-
Z ton half a century ago, but rather as
an army Of guests
Germans Courteous to Enemy.
French officers billetted in private
houses are treated as II they came as
OF the victorious enemy A French
officer friend OF mine tells me that
having 10 go from his German post
10 northern France. he told the Ger
- n q.
tered that he should depart at
o'clock in the morning and would say
goodbye at night and the next morn z
ing at s o'clock the entire family was
lined up TO do him honor and the I
woman Of the house had prepared an (
enormous apple tart for him 20 take {
with him
In the Palatinzte. an enormous I
number OF the women and not a few I
OF the men are learning TO speak 4
French and a French officer who I
commented on It 10 a German was +
greeted with the perfectly paralyzing 4
reply; Your armies passed through /
the Palatinate so frequently in the 4
French" a revelation % mental and 4
moral views which left the French ]
man EaspinE.
II Americans and Frenchmen and \
EnElishmen who come from Germany /
agree upon certain circumstance as
they do. there is nevertheless such 7
vast difference OF opinion as TO 9th
ers as TO leave their auditors hope .
iessly puzzled
Germany Is IneomprehensibIe-
The simple truth remains that Ger
many now. as at all times since Au-
gust 1914. IS totally Incompetent
sible. Half OF the Witnesses are
convinced that Germany is achieving
a new reconciliation which VIII makes
her a fresh peril to civilization. the
other half are equally strongly con-
WINGED that Germany IS moving to-
wards a new revolution. that the or
der or the moment is superficial and
TEMPORARY. that all Germans have
postponed domestic debate until the
end Of the peace conference IN the
hone that the appearance OF national
unity viii enable them 20 get better
peace terms and that once the treaty
Of peace is signed the explosion VIII
come.
In sum we have one week IN Paris
the old German menace revitaliZed
and we live under the shadow of a
return OF the Prussian. and the neNt
week we are equally under the
shevism seemingly calculated 10 be-
come as great a menace 90 western
civilization as a revitalized Prussia
This s. only another way Of
sayinE that while Paris cannot
mike uD its mind whether Ger
many VIII ne more MAN-NEnNN ~
ter reaction or after revolution
there Is n never ending serse OF
continuing greatness OF the
German peril.
I doubt n there was ever In his
tory a more amazing spectacle tlan
that in Europe today The Vic-ors
Of a world war are becoming less and
less certain OF their victory and the
conquered even less convinced Of their
defeat.
From the moment Napoleon went
to st. Helena 20 his death. Europe
continued 20 give itself over 10 sue
cessive rights over the possibility
OF the escape OF the great emperor,
who was in fact a broken and dying
man. One may hope that the similar
condition Of nerves I'm Europe now
may prove equally ridiculous in the
light Of later history. - Copyright,
1919. by Frank II. Simonds)
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