Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-23

/ by the Entente statesmen, will never
be anything but an abstract. artificial
organization, alongside of which more
practical and concrete alliances will
continue TO exist. 1t must therefore
be our aim to create powerful east
ern European Asiatic alliance to
counter balance the alliance of Anglo
Saxon and Latin nations in the west. ="
When once We shall have succeeded
in organizing and disciplining Russia
there can be little doubt which combina
ton will prove to be the stronger.
Secretly Undermine Lenine
Incidentally, this frank statement re
vcals the curious and eminently char
acteristic fact that the German states
men. while using Lenine's doctrines and
agents to spread anarchy everywhere.
are secretly undermining Lenine's rule
in Russia hoping to step into his place
when he falls and to obtain full con
troll over the former empire of the czars
from his grateful successors. The eX
traordinary idealists who prevented al
lied intervention against Lenine while it
was stilH possible and thereby estranged
! he Russian anti Bolshevik leaders from
the Allies, have unwittingly played Ger
many's game.
| The existence of powerful and firmly
consolidated Polish state can alone still
prevent the success of GermP ny's astute
policy. Therefore the Germans are re
solved to destroy Poland if they can.
Parallel to Germany's Bolshevik plots
| un her intrigues with international So
l6llsm. Since the meeting of the Berne
Socialist congress last January, where
the Entente labor leaders, hypnotized by
the socialist government" in Berlin.
received their German Comrades once
more into the fold of the 'lnterna
tional, the triumphant Germans have
no onger made any serious attempt
to conceal the nature Of their maneuvcr
Throw on Mask
! It's success has been so great that
they have thrown off the mask, and
everybody knows today that they con
tidently expect the Socialist leaders of
England. France and Italy either to
force their respective governments by
vast strikes to 'revise" the peace
reaty, or to assume the executive power
themselves and to conclude an entirely
new peace with Germany.
This is not the place to analyze the
motives of the western labor leaders
and their strange blindness to the fact
that the present rulers of Germany.
who solemnly repudiate the title of ''re-
public" for their new state, are not
Socialists at all. nor ever republicans.
] will only suggest here that to say
that Messrs. Ramsay Macdonald and
Jean Longuet are German agents"
seems to me too simple an explanation
of their action. while to chartabk dub
them "dupes" Of German duplcity
would be an insult to their very real
intelligence.
Let it suffice that for reasons of their
very own they supported the cause Of
the German empire all through the war.
on his throne, and are now determined
to pretend that n German Socialist
republic exists, which stands in urgent
need of the protection and assistance Of
the world prolctariat" against allied
Acapitalism.
Would Utilize SOyiets
The German statesmen do not wish
bolShevism to triumph definitely in
Europe. because they could scarcely
prevent Germany from becoming in e
volved in the general catastrophe. They
hope to undermine and overthrow the
present governments of western Europe
by fomenting Bolshevik outbreaks, but
they intend that they shall be sue
ceeded. not by communist soviets, but by
cabinets composed of Socialists and
paciists who will be as wax in energetic
German hands.
Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau. in his
letter of resignation before the signing
of peace, has given an Illuminating
definition of this policy.
THE German people, he wrote. sis
now the pioneer of the democratic idea
in the world. Germany is called upon