The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-12
FORESEES new WAR
WAGED BY GERMANS
Chaplain, Back After 4 Years
in Service, Says They
Seek Revenge.
U. S. MEN IN GOOD SHAPE
Loose and Misguided Senti-
ment in U. s. Decried by
Major Talbot.

Major Henry Russell Talbot, senior
chaplain of the Seventh Army Corps.
who left his church In Oregon to get into
the war and received Croix de Guerre
before an American soldier had landed
in France. spoke yesterday in the Church
Of the Heavenly Rest, Fifth avenue and
Forty-fifth street. He desired TO dispel
some illusions, he said. Among his prin-
cipal statements were:
Germany Is not beaten and thinks
only OF renewing war and hopes for an
alliance with America"
THE Y. NJ. C. A., Red Cross, SALIVA
ton. Army Knights OF Columbus and
other welfare organizations were in a
state OF paralysis from the day OF the
armistice and began to- function only
with the arrival Of troops in Germany"
The American public does not un-
derstand the character OF the American
doushboy or officer. A good deal of
loose and misguided sentiment is being
spread about"
Germany has plenty Of food and
Is prosperous. Her attitude Is not that
Of a conquered people"
DR.. Talbot has Just returned from
duty with the American Army of Occu-
patton.
II come home sick at heart" he said.
I'VE set out to do n definite thing and
we haven't finished the job You and I
may have done our little part, but we
have passed on the completion of the
task to our children and our grandchil-
dren. That conviction Ia my reaction
after four long years OF war
believe that a people fghtz not
with arms, but with morale, and the
German morale has not been really
broken. 1t has simply been halted.
AT present our men have never been
better cared for, better bilieted or better
entertained. Barring inconsistencies they
are in good care.
AS for morale, ! have no Illusions
about the American doughboy or officer.
don't sympsthize with a lot of the
sentiment which is running rife. But
am sure that never In history was
there an army like the Third American
Army.
Its morale is morale OF the kind
which any American citizen can thank
God for. Strikingly remarkable is the
self-restraint which these men have ex-
erted upon themselves.
Il could count on the fingers of my
two hands the men in that army whom
l have seen under the influence OF liquor
Tho first thing that struck me In the
portion OF Germany now occupied was
the superabundance of food. The second
thing was the great multitude of chill
dren. besides men UNNAMED and look
ing as fit as our own.
Il was struck by the attitude of the
German people toward us. 1t was
saccharine, sickeningly friendly.
one German said to me: I know
that many of our people are not now
we'll disposed toyard America, but wait
till our republic is firmly established
Then we will fight France and England
Think of it, The first reaction OF the
German after four years OF horror is to
take II up again"
DR.. Talbot served with the French
at the beginning of the war but after
the arrival of the American troops OBJ
tained a transfer to the First Division
After the signing of the armistice he
was moved to the Seventh Corps, OF
which he was senior chaplain. Twenty
years ago he was in the Philippines
Before he became pastor OF st. Davd's
church, Portland, Ore. he was at All
Saints Cathedral in Albany.