Evening star., 1919-04-16
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
Statesmen of world powers assembled
in Paris are not in the least lulled into
the belief that the mere signing OF the
peace pact will end allied responsibilities
or dangers in the direction OF Germany
RESPONSIBILITIES will lie in the en-
forcement of the provisions to be IN
corporated in the peace pact at Ner-
sailles-dangers in Germanys refusa
TO abide by the text of the covenant
to which she is expected to subscribe
or Germany's sheer inability to do sc
through disorganization of her eco
nomic and financial life, owing to an!
number of untoward contingencies
which may make themselves felt
throughout the length and breadth
of the kaiser's one-time domain
While giving deep thought to the
drafting of the terms to he imposed
allied peace emissaries in Paris
ever have kept in mind those infiu-
ences working in Germany which may
bring trouble.
In the minds of President Wilson
Premier Lloyd George and Premier
Ciemenceau, the men who have most
to do with the drafting of the terms
tion:
What will Germany do and what
measures must we take to forestall
enemy peoples if they resist
Allies Ready if Huns Resist.
With the question they have set in
motion the great co-ordinated allied
machinery to prepare for any un-
toward circumstance or any contih-
H. OF yn6 re
alizat tion of the full fruits of victory.
Allied deliberators in Paris know
today how much Germany can pay
in the way of reparations immedl :
ately; they are thoroughly cognizant
Of what an organized Germany can
pay in the future; they are thorough
ly in touch with the economic sltua-
ton in every section of the land: they
know full well what Will be fair yet
just demands upon the enemy in view
Germany; they know the influences
for good government in Germany;
they know the bad. Ever are they
cognizant of those influences outside
they know the progress which the
forces of disintegration have MADE
The supreme war council. at the be-
hest of the heads of the more power, ,
full government, has set about ana
drafted stipulations which are ex-
pected to tie forever the hands of
the Germans along military and
naval lines.
German conditions in their chief
aspects today are as well known 10
the representatives OF tne aiilso sor
ernments as Germany is to the Ebert
regime, whose tenure is exceedingly!
problematical, to say the least AS
result of this the heads OF aillea gov
ernments in Paris are dominated IN
their actions by one set, definite con-
Germany of today is not to be fully
trusted Germany must De Watcneu
Germany is within the bounds CT JUS
tifiable suspicion.
Four Questions Uppermost.
Four questions naturally have been
ask ed during the long weeks on de.
always have been uppermost in ehe
minds of allied statesmen in apply
ing. panaceas for unsettied oraer
Europe and ASta.. They are;
First. win Germany sign the figo-
rous terms to be written py the al
''ss; Second. ewin Germany sign the
peace pact and then nse all her in
fenSisyb 5bronEb the to SeaEs st II W siapss
before all of its provisions have been
Third. Will the firm demands Of
Of the present German government
bring about counter revolution by the
junker elements who might win sup
port by a popular clamor that the
Ebert goxernment had had bafiers baf5ersd away
Fourth. Will the allies ever be able
to collect the reparations that will
be exacted and hold Germany 10 strict
in view of the ex-
sweeping the land through the aid
,f Lenin of Russia?
AS a result of Germany's various
to the allies in the armi-
stice and to extension of exactions after
imposed. though oftentimes under wild
protest, Paris cOnfereeS are not inclined
10 believe that the Germans will refuse
TO sign the peace treaty. That the Ger
man delegates will go to Versailles
with the set conviction that they may
alter the terms agreed upon previously
German debate will be curbed by i'm
positions of the time limits within
which they must sign.
German Threats Seen as Bluffs.
German government threats that
they will not sign such stipulations as
continued military control Of the
Rhine valley. the use of the Sarre
valley by the French with eventual
plebiscite and the strangling of her
military force. are not taken seriously
in Paris. Rather are they considered
bluffs, and, as result, the allies have
not been deferred in the least from
the common task of framing punish
ments for Germany which will fall
within the stipulatiOns of President
Wilson.
If the present socialist government
is not to bring on further conflict with
outside powers, If 1t Is not to find it's
powers materially curtailed through
subsequent firm actions on the part of
the allies, this government will in