The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-25
Won TIRPITZ Story
OF GERMAN DEFEAT


sa from Previous Issue.)
had the gerat war been ayerted ar
eNsh delayed indefinitely, Germany
sIONlhs sea power would have oDened
~ ~ataile felrs for her deyelop-
nynt Poltically I n world affairs. with
~ oeIns Obliged 70 strike In n military
sense. Even could Germany nave com
solldated her naval Strength win tbst
~ tnothef nation she could have en-
yoyeq remarkable Possibilities in her
political DEVELOPMENT, A" hei
Ailance or Capitalization OF power with
81 tSs n1o would probably have been at
now such an attempt failed In a previ,,
Tvs instance win describe later. But
hSu we kept pace with England n IL
nor az al outside the range of possihib.
~ mat our relations with the United
ana mn msnt nave sTown always closer
advantageous to both powers.
20 one realized this more fully thar
~ lne9oore hopsevelt, whom / knew
vel ana With whom l had many long
u~onveISatlonal He saw not only the adj
tase y me necessity Of sea power
or potsrais which a enemies. active
When R5 syelt remarked q mo that
Sefmany's Natural DEVELOPMENT de-
mandeo tha4 she regain her natural SUI
piSihacy oN toe mouth of her pTiuci-
pa river ava unite II TO her small Ger
man states on the lower Rhine and
Seheldt, he was honest and spoke after
W usual manner, roughly. I do not take
ms later opposition to us on the grounds
OF the military invasion Of Belgium as a
reversal OF his position.
aus mark about Holland and Bel
slum were not recommendations that
We should conquer them. II was merely
we impetuous pronounoing Of the
thoughts which entered his mind upon
sl1lnE, up Germany's political and geo
graphical position. He understood Eu-
ropshn poIitics as few Americans have
CThis alleged conversation with Roose-
Felt may perhaps be cited by Won Tir-
PITT N a yelled attempt to Justify Ger
manys invasion Of Belgium. Roose-
yelts remark, II quoted correctly, was
countess meant to convey what all the
world recognized as a fact, that the
Kline was the natural outlet for Ger
man commerce and that by maintaining
a suttlclent navy Germany should in
sure herself OF that outlet. lie would
nave been the last TO condone a terri
sorial conquest OF an independent safe.
The same principle IL involved in the
necessity for the United states 10 main
tam a sufficient navy TO make II i'm
possible for an enemy power to use a
west indian island MS a base OF opera
lions against our coast. Germany new
er urged this claim as an excuse for
launching The war and her Invasion of
Belgium was on purely military grounds
according to the statements OF her own
military eaders.-Editor's Note.)
Anglo Japanese Alliance.
In speaking thus to me, believe II
was ~Roosevelt's view that Engiand's
world power gradually would decrease
= mat we should become Americas
nAylFAI AIlV nDnlnph TaNA,# fNI, --.
summation Of the Anglo Japanese
treaty strengthened his views on this
SUBJECT and he considered IL of the ut
most importance that Germany's sea
power be developed unhampered. The
consolidation Of the American and Ger
sible for Japan to carry a wal to Eu-
rope or the western hemisphere, and
their combiAed strength would have
peen sufficient to prevent them trans
porting troops to the Philippines,
Ether the war would have TO be
Fought to a finish on the sea or It
could be carried TO Japan.
To show how friendly were our rela-
uons and how close they might have
grown, when Roosevelt as president Of
the United States, was contemplating
sending the American fleet around tho
the American ambassador In Berlin,
whether II ] were In his place ! would
take the naval and political respon-
sibility OF such a step.
answered, II should take IT,
II must be remembered that at this
Time, 1908, tho sending OF the fleet 10
the Pacific was much more OF a naval
feat than II Is today, with the Panama
canal available. Consequently the po-
itical significance of such an act was
correspondinRly greater.
N. answering him as / did ] bore In
mind that this trip of the American
fleet would also be OF great advantage
to US, In respect TO Japan, the inter- !
ests Of Germany and the United States |
were becoming singularly Identical.
And again, n OF the most striking
results Of the cruise was that Austria |
las Indifference to England cooled per- |
ceptibly and great enthusiasm was |
aroused for America. Only by the war
have we ourselves reunited with firner
ties the colonies Of England to the
mother country.
Given II at first he held the mistaken
view Of many. German diplomats that !
the British colonies would attack the
mother country at the outbreak of the
war, Won TirpitE here admits that Il
was an error, II IL not every German
who even now can see that his ''pBy-
chology' was wrong,-Editor's Note.|
Admits Mistakes In Dealing
With U. S.
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