Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-04

| Copyright 1919, by Press Pub. Co.
tThe New York World.)
Especial Cable Dispatch)
| Berlin, tvia Copenhagen), March 3.
Some few people here are Just be-
ginning to realize the prospect ahead
of Germany, and have become intense
| ~ pessimistic. They see that Ger
many's dream of empire has gone. 1t
may seem to the outside world that
| Germany long ago ought to have re-
allied what military defeat meant. but
for the first time in the three and one
half months | have been here | begin
to see an awakening by Germans to
the reality
Heretofore the people have been
cajoling themselves They have been
getting some satisfaction in calling
the entente powers unfair and un-
chivalrous, not seeming to realize that
they could gain nothing by ca
names.
They never have been, and are not
now, willing to admit they are mill
tarily defeated. 1t is much easier to
! find German ready to say Germany
was responsible for the war than one
who admits military defeat.
Unpleasant Surprise Coming.
The great body of the people will
not admit either responsibility or de-
feat. When ] say to them they can
not expect to get agreeable peace
terms until they hand over the sword,
without mental reservation they
usually protest and become angry
So Germany has in store very
disagreeable surprise when the peace
terms shall be defined. They base
every peace speech or conversation on
President Wilson's fourteen points,
but they interpret those points to their
liking, and so even the best terms.
terms much better than seem likely,
would prove a disagreeable surprise.
The reason is that the body of the
people will not admit responsibility,
and so they see no reason why they
should hit the sawdust trail of re-
pentance,
Two months ago they pinned strong
faith to President Wilson, evidently
thinking he would force "the revenge
full French" to be good, so Germany
once more might emerge on the high
seas, with all the colonies restored
Now, while convince d to the contrary,
the people are not looking the future
in the face.
Wilson'S Doctrine Doesn't Help.
The first hysteria after the revolu-
tion was followed by hopeful eXpecta-
tions that the presidents doctrine
prospect gone. the country is getting
on its own nerve.
Bolshcvism in Germany has no plan,
as in Russia. When the Bolsheviki
established their rule in Petrograd
their proclamations to the proletariat
world had a certain grandeur of ex-
preston. Today the Munich soviets
issue an appeal to the proletariat of
the world merely praying this body
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German proletariat chance to live.
one never can escape the old appeal
that comes from the bourgeois and
the professional politicians in Ger
many, but | thought the proletariat
revolutionists would at least not use
the same old cry Whatever so-called
soviet governments may be produced
in Bavaria and Baden. | can never
take them seriously after that.
Every One Propagandist.
Danger from Bolshevism has lain in
its bigness. In Munich it has been
made mean. 1t seems as If. every
German had turned propagandist. L
asked a passer-by today about the
discontinuance of a certain train.
How do you expect to find a train
when Foch has taken the engines?' =
was his reply.
| notice also that suavity Is wear
entente have had in Germany has
been amazing for its urbanity. Sure
ly nothing of the kind could have
happened had conditions been re-
versed But | begin to think it will
be much harder for Germans to smile
upon us after the peace terms force
them to cease cajoling themselves.
Indications Of the truth are slowly
dawning The cover of Simplicissimus
carries a picture of en- empty shore
on which John Bull is telling the
Respondent German that he may
again become a thinker and poet
William Herzog, in the independent
socialist paper Republic, follows the
line of the late Kurt Eisner's thought,
that Germany must accept the guilt
of the war.
Eisner said he believed he would
he killed for saying that. Count Arco
Valley, who killed Eisner, represented
the type of German mind that refuses
to admit anything, That has been
the mind of the vast majority. regard
less of party. and that is why any
possible peace terms will jolt Ger
many and make the people furious.
AMERICAN OFFICERS