The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-13

The idea of revolution. preached by enemy propaganda and by the boishe- NilSs, found the Germans in receptive frame of mind and gained ground in the army and navy through the inde- pendent socialists. Hcresy grew among the broad masses of our peo- ple. The German people, at home and the front. had received death blow.
 When I was appointed quartermas- ter general. Germany was just at the beginning of this development. and it's future course could not be prophesied. One thing, however. was absolutely certain. that we could not watch it as idle spectators
 Something had now been achieved asainst the starvation blockade; we had broken through it in Rumania. Nobody knew whether we would ever have another chance to break through it or how we would use it.
 GERMANS FURNISHED PHRASE
 Before the enemy propa ganda we were like a rabbit before a snake. It was exceptionally clever and worked on a very large scale. Its suggestions had a strong effect on the masses; it worked well together with the actual eampaigning, and was interruptions as to the means it used
 AHt NtEiiGn Dtopte, WhO ndu not yet learned the art of the value of silence, had. in its binmeworthy franlness. shown by it's speech, it's writings and its actions. the best line of attack for the enemy propaganda.
 The German people had itself coined the phrase. "Prussian militarism," all though this very Prussian militarism, the spirit of selfish loyalty. the sur render of the individual to the con- caption of the state had created Prus- sia and achieved for Germany it's mag nificent development. People mistook unessential phenomena for the essence cf militarism. and failed to appreciate the national strength which rested therein. It should not have been re- sisted, but encouraged
 Even high officials of the govern ment used the word responsibility to me during the war. so that one can hardly blame the many who thought they were acting wisely in turnig against "militarism' even if they could not tell clearly the meaning of the word. True. many a man knew full well what the end of such fight was; authority was at stake
 ENEMIES AIM WAS SURE
 The entente knew quite well the strength of this "Prussian militarism ' If knew why it fought against it. Ii knew. too. what it was doing when it stirred up the Germans against their officers. in the last resort the support CTS of the power of the state. It acted with sure aim when it worked against Prussia in South Germany. when it attacked the emperor. the symbol of our unity when it iailed against the crown prince. and promised our people the riches of heaven if it should once get rid of its imperial house and it's other dynasties.
 Later on the enemy propaganda at lacked me aIsc. The army and the people were to be robbed of their con- fidence in the supreme army com mand. the belief fin ultimate victory was to he shattered, and faith was to bc destroyed in the man who strove to offer strong resistance to the entente.
 By working on our democratic senti- ments the enemy propa ganda succeeded in bringing our form of government into discredit in Germany and in the whole world as being autocratic all though our emperor had not the same power as the president of the United States, and although the right of vot- ing for the reichstag. the great repre- sentative body of the empire, rested on more democratic basis than that of many other countries
 GERMANS READY TO LISTEN
 The enemy propaganda aimed ever more directly at breaking up the unity of the German empire. and at separat- ing Germany from her ruling house. and her dynasties and governments from their people; this was revolution pure and simple.
 The propagandists grew clever in understanding the effects of such phrases as peace of understanding" "disarmament after the war" Tea que
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