Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-03
GERMANS TO SIGN PEACE
PACT, BUT ADOPT POINTS
OF WILSON AS THE BASIS
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closely to the text of President VIII
sons principles, which the delegates
have studied until they know them
almost by heart.
The German delegation, 10y pursu-
ing the policy of a persistent profess
son of faith in justice and humanity,
seeHs to spread belief in the tremen-
dous moral strength of its position on
the Wilson platform and therefore
! Will favor giving utmost publicity to
| the ueS0tiat ons
To Prove Conversion.
Moreover, Count Won Brockdorff-
Rantzau will make his debut at Yer
sailles not only as a professional pac-
| ifist but Will seek to impress upon
| the confer ence and the worlds public
opinion the sincerity and complete
ness Of Garmanys conversion to the
right above might policy; that weak,
small notions let alone France, have
ROLLING to fear from Germany in fu-
ture, that niltarism is dead and that
the resurrection Of miltarism is un-
thinkabIe.
Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau has
already astutely prepared for the
German appearance in the pinafore
of pacifism instead of the familiar
mailed colsltt. Everything possible
has been done to make the world for
get the great fighting machine that
was once the German army. Won
HiudcnhCrg mas been muZZled. Not
only Won Hin1enburg but the generals
still! III active service have been tipped
off to keep their mouths shut. The
news will be sprung at the psychology
ical moment, that the German great
headquarters soon will be disbanded,
while the socialist noske is featured
as the one true Commander in chief
of Germany's new national defense
forces.
Want Full Sea Freedom.
Germanys assumed enthusiasm for
i her own and universal disarmament
will assume full freedom of the seas,
However, as a part of the disarma-
ment program Germanys "pacifist"
delegation will fight hard for the
most favorable possible interpreted
|, ton of President Wilson's principles
and, without wishing to appear to do
so, is counting heavily on Mr.. Wilson
and America.
German confidence in Mr.. Wilson
. has been tremendously strengthened
by the Italian interlude and Mr. Will
sons appeal to the public opinion of
the world. The Germans, according
ly, are going to Versailles not only
with mistaken faith in President Will
son but with confidence and the in
spring feeling that the president
: means business and will fight for his
principles If necessary
To sign or not to sign, that is the
question all thinking Germans have
been meditating. Germany's home
and foreign ganda has undoubt-
eddy striven to create an atmosphere
of peace pessimism; the German press
almost unanimously chorused that nc
dictated peace was possible of accept
ance, certainly none violating the
German interpreted fourteen Wilson,
ian points; German statesmen and pol.
iticians, never so prolific Of interviews
have strengthened the impression wa.
quite capable of rejecting peace anC
n would do so If the terms were any
t thing like the versions which have
ell reached Berlin, until many wise OBJ
Isl servers are convinced there was
81 very strong probability that Germany
= | would reject the terms imposed.
But Germany win sign.
e "Wiison ys. Lenine."
a This is the pivotal point in tn,
If struggle of ideas incarnate in Wilson
G and Le-:ne," declares Prof. Ottt
n Hoetzsch, who sees a crisis in thu
worlds history coming at Versailles.
'Lenine and Wilson are fighting to
! day" he said; Wilson as the represent
> aative of a capitalistic democracy will
u nineteenth century ideas, Lenine a
u the standard bearer of distorted so
cialism; Wilson as the apostle of
new league of states which, neverthe
less, under new principles, recognize
\ the existence of states; Lenine as tn
> champion of real league of peoples
which negatives the idea of a state.
i. AFT Bolshevism floods Europe,
:, will overwhelm England as we'll Eng
= land must see that Bolshevism canno
4 be suppressed by force and is con
n querable only by creative work, by tn
~ reconstruction of all nations. 1t lie
r largely in England's hands whethe
o Germany must first pass through tn
d last phases of revolution"
Professor Hoetzsch sees Germany
n world mission in the struggle between
q the old forces and the new. ideas. an,
h adds:
: But if frustrated by peace whicl
Is leaves us a choice only between SLAYER
1t and Bolshevistic anarchy, let us, a
r least, come what may, preserve gu
d national dignity which we won in on
e great past and which did not die II
IS the world war.
+ THE world crisis will arrive whel
d the German nation has placed befor
$ it the ddecision whether it can nego
: tate peace or must reject it,
secs Peril in Dictated Peace.
I'm case Germany dictates prelim
inar'3 peace, what will new measure
, of compulsion profit the entente?" h
y asks. THE entente no longer has tn
military means or public opinion a
I, home to maintain it for any length o
It time. Then the entente would get i,
!. the same situation regarding German
n as Germany found herself towar
n Russia after Brest-Litovsk. A dictate
It peace would fird an outlet in Ger
n man revolution and Bolshevism whicl
e then would menace western Europe.
e what will President Wilson do
Germany rejects the Paris treaty? w