Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-15

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policy will be procrastination; it is
playing for time.
Foe VIII Play for Time.
The cabinet met TINS morning for
an all day session to deliberate and
decide on instructions for Count Won
Brockdorff Rantzau Late this after
noon Chancellor Scheidemann made a
speech outlining the governments
standpoint to the peace committee of
the national assembly, 1 learn from
a well informed source that Ger
many's peace tactics will be to gain
time by taking 1Ell advantage OF the
! two weeks gra % given by tho confer
once for written reply, The German
delegation will not, enduIge in fruitless
/ protests nor attempt to negotiate"
which, even il fargoing concessions
could be obtained, would still result
| in a treaty absolutely impossible of
acceptance.
Instead the German delegation will
| be instructed to submit the formu-
! lated counter proposals containing
| Germany's maximum concessions The
! government intimates that. after the
fourteen days have expired. not only
written but verbal negotiations will
take place.
Government Reinsurance.
! The German government is at pains
to reassure the public that an immedi-
ate decision is unnecessary and that
the negotiations win be protracted.
| Parliamentarians of all parties unani-
| mously express the view that the
present terms of the treaty are i'm
/ possible, such as no German govern
ment could subscribe. Reports from
! Versailles state that the delegates
there are flabbergasted, crushed
/ hopelessly pessimistic. Prof. Schueck-
! ing of the delegation calls the terms
simply frightful."t and adds:
! "Francc's lust to humiliate Germany
/ expresses itself even in trivialities"
! Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau has
nothing to say" Herr Landsberg,
minister of publicity, is terribly de-
| pressed and says Nothing is left for
| us but to say yes or no.
| Press Heaps Blame on Wilson.
The Taegliche Rundschau, under
headlines Against Entente Gewalt-
| frienden; details regarding Germanys
dismemberment and reduction 20
| slavery" says: The echo, so far in
! unison, is a cry of horror. Through
out Germany today rings an cutlery
and a demand for REJECTION" lt|
launches a bitter personal alta *
against President Wilson. Through
| the fourteen points President Wilson
| helped the allies ruin Germany COM
pletely," it says. ION the other hand
he prevented opposition by the pacifist
elements. 1t ought to be clear now to
| Germany that Wilson played a double
game, We are ruined, annihilated
nationally and economically as an in
4 dependent state, because the social
lists persuaded the German people to
| place their hope In Wilson and lay
down their arms. Now We must no
| longer look abroad for help or hope
! in Wilson, but, relying only on our
own strength, decide how we can get
on our feet again and shake off the
treaty. 1t not only expects us to
become a nation of slaves but to give
up the last shred of our national
! honor by surrenderins the kaiser,
| Hindenburg and Iudendorff to the
| entente.
"The honor and existence of the
| German nation is now at stake. Let
| Germany be prepared to make its
government do its duty and reach
only n possible decision. The terms
exceed the blacklist expectations of
the pessimists. We have been de-
ceived.
Negotiations Demanded.
There is hardly o trace of Wilson's
fourteen points left. The entente
| would have us sink TO a tributary
state of the league of nations. If the
conditions are acceptable, new revo-
| lutions are inevitable. Every posi-
bility of peace and quiet is annihi-
lated. Our enemies want to immortal
| lze war. Their demands are unfill-
able and impossible.'
The Lokal-Anzeiger says: Ger
! many stands at the grave of its last
| hopes. The effect of the peace terms
| must be to destroy the strength of the
| German people forever This, too, is
the obvious intent. If the government
! followed the first impulse which
throbs through the whole German
nation like one heartbeat. It might
Well decline with thanks the period
| of grace. We must insist on nego-
hations. Only when the last posi-
bility of obtaining a bearable peace is
exhausted and destroyed will the gov
ernments hour come for pronouncing
the decisive word"
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