The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-14
Turk and T'eutOn
continued from previous issue.)
Ambassador Moraenthau's story o
Great War Flots
BY HENRY MoRGENTHAu.

But there is one thing that we viii
fight for" replied, land that IS mordi
principle. 1t is quite, apparent {nat
you do not understand the american
spirit. You do not reallEe Una we al" ne
| holding off, not because we nave no
| desire to fight, but because we WISH 70
be absolutely fair. We first wish to
have all the evidence in. admit mat
we are reluctant to mix in foreign ols-
| putes. but we shall insist upon our
| right to use the ocean as We see IN,
| and we don't propose to have Germany,
tell US how many ships we can san
and where they are to go. The AMER
| can Is still perhaps a great powerful
| youth, but once lie gets his NINA mace
up that he is going to defend ms rlBhts'
he will do so irrespective OF eolset
ouences. You seen to think that
| Americans will not fight for a prin-
| ciple; you apparently rave forgotten
that ali our wars have been over mat
tiers Of principle. Take the gfeatest
of them all--the civil war, wroIn 1871
to '65. We in the North fought TO
emancipate the slaves; that was purely
a matter of principle; our material IN
I terests were not Involved. Ahd we
fought that to the end, although we
had to fight our W brothers.
1--WE don't want to be on bad terms
with the United states, Won Jago" re-
piled. There are three nations on
whom the peace of the world depends
Eneland, the United States and Ger
many, We three should get together;
establish peace and maintain II. !
thank you for your explanation; IN
derstand the situation much petter
nov, But / still don't see why your
government is so hard on Germany n
so easy with England. ,
made the usual explanation thal
we regarded our problem with each ma
ton as a distinct matter n cou.o moI
make our treatment Of Germany IN any.
way conditional on our treatment OF
England.
"oh, yes" replied von 1agow' rather sr
boys playing in a yard. one IS to pc
punished first, and the other Is walt
ing for his turn. Wilson is gong 10
shank the German boy first, and, after
he gets through. then he proposes 10
take up England r n,
YOU would cable the president tlat
you have gone over the matter win
me and now understand the, German
noint OF view. Won't you please ask
him to do nothing until you have
reached the other side and explained
the whole thing personality
| made this promise and cabled i'm
mediately,
At 4.30 o'clock l had an engagement
10 take tea with a director Of the orr
ent Rank and his wife, ] had been
there only a few minutes when Iim-
norman was announced! He was a
different kind of man from Won Jago"
He impressed me as much stronger
mentally and physically. He was tan.
even stately in his bearing, maStertuI
In his amer, direct and searching III
his questions. but extremely pleasing
and ~iuslnuating
Zimmerman, discussing the German
American situation, began with a STATE
ment which I presume he though,l
would be gratifying to me, Pe tolo
me how %snlendidly the Jews mad pc
haved in Germany during the war ah'
how deeply under obligations the Ger
mans felt to them.
after the war" h" said, they arc
1 going to be much better treated IN def'
many than they have been
| Zimmerman told me that Won Jaen"
4 hpd told him about our talk and asked
1 me to repeat part Of IL, He was par
4 ticularlv interested, he said. IN m
1 statements about German Americans
\ and he wished to learn from me him
L self the facts uron which haaed my
4 conclusions. Like most Germals ~
A regarded the Germanic clement III gu
\ population as almost a part OF Ger
"Ahe you SIRE that the mass o
4 Gernan-AmertCers would be loyal t.
1 the United States in case OF war; h
\ asked. Aren't their feelings for tn
fTo De CpntinnedN