Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-19
GERMAN SAVANTs
NOW RECOGNIZE
GREAT MISTAKE
ExponentS Of KuItur Who Is
sued a Manifesto IuStifying
War and Ambitions of the
Kaiser Are Ashamed.

Berlin. Dec. Thirty-nine of the
ninety-three German savants and pro.
| fessors who signed on October IL
1914, the famous manifesto attempting
to Justify Germanv's course in the
war, now realize that thy made a
tragic mistake" sixteen, however
adhere to their belief that the mani
festo was drawn up in accordance with
| facts.
| This has been disclosed by can
vass of the seventy eight living eX-
ponents of German culture who signed
| the manifesto. This has lust been con-
| duced by Or, Hans Weinberg
| DR., weinberg reports that thirty
nine of the stgners Of the celebrated
document have admitted to him that
today by no means all of the assertions
| therein made could be maintained
Many Of them, he says insist that they
/ did not correctly read or understand
| the paper when they affixed their sig
natures to 1t or allowed them to be at
taChCd.
! or these thirty-nine already ex-
| pressed their regret that they signed
! the statement and eight of them have
| withdrawn their signatures since Or.
| Weinberg began his Investigation,
These eight are Luio Brentano, Felix
Won Weingaertner, Herbert Gutenberg
w Forester, Won Kaulbach and the
theologians Schmidlin, Hermann and
Mausbach.
Writing to Or. weinberg, Herbert
Gutenberg said that the ninety-three
men who signed the manifesto at the
beginning OF the war then believed
that Germany had been attacked un-
derhandedly and that the country
merely. availed itself of its right of
self-defense
Professor Brentano declared that he
l Il An
signature to be appended, that he as
sentsd only to regret it bitterly after
he saw the text of the paper Felix
Weingaertner writes In similar vein.
OF the seventy eight living scien-
lists and professors. DR. Weinberg re-
ceived replies from fifty-five. Sixteen
who stood by their guns and declared
their adherence to the original stand
point include Siegfried Wagner Edu-
ard Meyer, Doerpfeld and Lenz.
One of the sixteen replied that he
had read the manifesto again, sentence
by sentence, and had not found a sim
gle one which, according TO his knowl-
edge, of the situation. could not be
signed today Twenty three of the
signers did not reply to DR. Wehberg's S
inquiry.
The manifesto was originated, as
serts DR.. Weinberg, by a small group
of professors and artists including
Emil, Fischer. Fulda. Harnack, HUM
perdinck, Max Liebermann. Won List
Reike, Riehl and Schneider They OBJ
tanned the signatures of the others
chiefly by telegraph.
The Issuance OF the manifesto IS
characterized by DR. Weinberg as a
tragic mistake which has brought
harm to Germany After the first ex-
element of the war, he adds, the bet
ter part of the savants genuinely re-
gretted the signing but many were re-
Grained by false bride from publicly
admitting their terror of Judgment"
He quotes Carl Hauptman as saying
that the manifesto fills the signers
with horror ana that they will be
warned for the rest of their lives
against the impetuous gregariousness
which has crazed humanity for CEN
turies."