The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-05-02

Western Newspaper Union star Cor.
respondent.

Paris.--That Germany has expert
lcnced no change Of heart as a result
OF her military defeat Is the message
lDr. Alonzo Taylor has just brought
to Paris after three weeks in Ger
many, where he inspected the food
supply, the stocks Of raw materials.
briefly, and made remarkably con-
else survey OF the political and eco
lnOmic situation.
Probably no one In America was
better ntted TO slse up Germany than
Doctor Taylor.
While America was neutral, during
those first months Of the great war,
TAYLOR was travelling through the
length and breadth Of Germany in
Specting the allied prison camps. He
was attached to the American embas-
IN. He gained, during the days be
fore we we're in the war, an intimate
knowledge Of German war methods,
i German official procedure, German In
trigue, German lies, German cruelty,
and came to know all about the condi-
ton of economic Germany.
II You would never pick Taylor out Of
i crowd as one of our leading Ameri-
I cans, because he does not look Ike
statesman, a college professor. po-
litieal economist or diplomat--and
he is all Of these things.
/ Wien he hurried out of MIR. Hooy-
Il er'e Office in the Hotel de Crillon, On
Ihig return from Germany, Taylor
started, without a pause to get into
: the heart of his talk with GROUP OF
j American newspaper men that had ms
sembled to learn the truth about the
/ Germans. He actually talked one hour
and forty-fve minutes. He answered
half a hundred questions.
"sanS Old Gang"
"They've got the same old gang In
the government Offices at Berlin that
we knew before and during the war;"
TAYLOR began. "Some kind of reyo-
luton actually started in Germany be
fore the armistice was signed. For
the time being that revolution Is be-
ing held up. The politicians are bend
ing every effort to get governmental
machine working smoothly, in order to
present some kind of solid front to
The allies when the time comes to set
tie fhal peace terms. While the gov
eminent Is shaping itself the old civil
servants are being kept In tie govern
ment offices. The men in control do
not intend taking unframed men into
the government, because they have the
concrete example of the failure OF the
Russian government that took un'
! trained officials into the government
machine. The Germans in control
won't allow Germany's government to
fall to pieces like the Russian govern
ment."
Az soon as peace is actually dc
| elared the Germans will start out set
fling their internal difficulties and can
be expected to introduce many social
istic reforms-possibly the socializa'
/ ton of many Of the leading industries.
such as the large factory groups and
the coal and potash and iron mines.
! In the meantime, the men in control
at Berlin are eHdeavoring to get their
| people back to work, back to the in
| dugtrtous and s0npohtical ways of 81
years ago bs4ore the militaristic
! crowd started preaching world con
quest and 'kulfArlzatlon" Of the globe.
] MiIitaa,sm Is Gone.
] And 1t is ne9 appreciated that the
| Germans have q long way to go before
they come sut sf this war experience
as even a kale.Nay decent nation.
| MilitariSm as world menace in
Germany is Gsae, Doctor Taylor be-
! lteyes. He foI4d sufficient evidence
| to satisfy khn ehat the German army
) of the old SayR Is thing of the past.
: AS to the meul at the helm in Berlin
] who are trying to solve the present
urgent problems Of the country-they
/ have had No change of heart, no con-
version to the doctrines Of President
! Wilson unless they are permitted to
retain their original boundaries. y
Failing to hOodwink the world into
giving them territory that never be-
IOnko0 10 kuSM IA8AIluAAS' thS NNA
mans are going to take the attitude
/ that they are q much abused nation.
And they an going to hint broadly
that no aood can come Of abusing a
nation 81 100000 people. In fact,
they are already beginning prOpa-
sanda 10 make their people believe the
allies are eager for an unjust peace.
Men compos Mentis.
Today the German has figured out a
kind Of new philosophy of life. He
wants to eat his cake and have it too.
! He admits that he would have been
overjoyed had the central powers won
the war and enSlaved the world. He
sees no wrong In kulturized world.
He believes that any means the mill,
| tary party took to win the war, no
matter how cruel, and no matter what
! suffering these methods caused limo
| cent populations, were justified.
l. Now that ne Germans have been
/ defeated and zee some of their steal
lngs of the past half century going out
| " their hands. they say, "The mill
4ary party deceived u.s." and then fake
she attitude that they are not to blame
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