Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-24
GERMANY
REGARDS
IA POINTS
AS TREAT
Wilson's Terms of Armistice
Looked Upon by Huns as
Sacred international
Peace Pact.
BY Universal Service.

ice is able to give some inside"
facts about the makeup and the per-
sonnel of the German peace dele
CATION.
Before stating them it may be
worth emphasizing fact which per-
haps is not generally known abroad.
1t is that the fundamental basis from
which the German peace delegation
will proceed in all its discussions
with the entente plenipote ltiarles in
Paris is the German conception OF
President Wilson's IA points, which
is that when Germany, America and
the allies subscribed to these points
as basis for the armistice. they vir-
tually concluded a sacred intearna-
tional pact which the Germans viii
declare inviolable both III letterd and
in spirit.
Every one of the German dele
gates who has expressed himself
publicly has dwelt on this with spe-
cial emphasis. By shrewd, nation
wide press propaganda which in ev-
cry aspect and detail was REPLICA
of the old regime publicity cam-
paigns-such as that in favor Of ruth
less U-boat warfare-the govern
ment has drilled into the minds and
hearts of millions of Germans that
their peace delegates go to Paris to
affix their signatures to a document
which is nothing more or less than a
translation into actual terms Of the
Wilsonian IA points, and it goes
without saying that the interpreta-
ton of those points as seen by the
Germans is one of maximum liberal
ity toward. them.
Grandstand Appeal.
To put it concisely, what all the
German nation has been led to be-
lieve is that at the first sign of what
they will consider a deviation from
the IA points, the German delegates
will flatly charge the allies with a
violation of sacred international
treaty" and make a grandstand ap-
peal to the moral opinion of the
world" etc.
The engineers serving Germany's
peace machinery are divided into
three groups, thus:
1.-The political directors" whose
names follow: Count Won Brock
dorff Rantzau. foreign secretary;
DR.. Eduard David, member of the
Scheidemann cabinet; Postmaster
General Giesber; Adolph Muller,
German minister to Switzerland,
formerly editor of the Munich Post;
DR.. Walter Schuecking, eminent
German authority on international
law; DIR. Melchior, member Of the
banking firm of Warburg & Co.,
Hamburg.
There has been talk in the last
48 hours of substitution of Herr
Leinert, president of the Pruss'an
assembly and of the national soviet
congress, for DR.. David. If this is
true it signifies an important elev-
enth-hour victory for the conserva-
tives and other elements, the guild
ing motive of whose policy is An
glophobia. David has been assailed
in these quarters of late as a friend
of the English" who might agree to
concessions at Germany's expense
and in favor of Britain. He is vio-
ently anti-Russian and has for
years advocated the dismemberment
of the Muscovite realm.
Prominent Leaders.
2Group of experts, consisting OF
38 members. This group is COM
posed of prominent leaders in bank
ing, commerce. industry. agriculture,
economics and labor. They will be
consulted chiefly in the regulation
of religious and national questions.
Foremost among them are: Bishop
Korum, Professor Baumgarten, a
noted Protestant theologian: Her
man Struck, famous both as an art
ist and Zionist leader, and Eduard
Bernstein, representative of the So
cial democrats.
A woman, Marie Jucfacz. also is
member of this group.
The indispensable German profess
sor also is conspicuous in this
group. Famous teachers from ilidny
of the biggest universities have been
recruited, among them Privy' Coun-
cellor Lujo Brentano, Professor
Bonn of Munich, who spent some
time in the United States early in
the war; Prof. Max Weber of Hell
delberg, Professor >Areboe of the
agricultural college of Breslau, and
DR.. Hergesell aeronautical expert.
Another prominent parsonage in
the second peace group is DR.. Wal,
ter Rathenau. the famous head Of
the General Electrical company.
Max Warburg, the Hamburg
banker, brother of Paul M. War
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