New Britain herald., 1919-03-12
GERMANS DESERVING
 OF NO PITY AT ALL
But Must Be Fed, fl Only to
 Combat World Anarchy
SECRETARY LANSING STATES
.s,rcrican Peace Delegate Dcspises Huns, But Says People Must Be Given Fighting Chance or Boishc- visn Will Spread EIorc TcrrOIs.

visrn Will Spread tIorc TcrroIs.
 Paris, March Hive have reach ed a crisis iii the affairs of the world, e said Secretary of State Robert lalt- sing at banquet given tonight oE the Jnter-Allied Press club, in honor of < he American peace commissioner 9' lMr. Lansing was emphatic that th0 Allies must "ccd Germany ana 5N0 the Germans opportunity to sell .'e'' products i'll tho foreign markets IL 'l.e danger Of Bolshcvism was to be 'No'o- ed. He painted . vivid picture or Coh- litions i'll the war zone of France ana pointed out that it was not through pity for Germany out 10 the Allies own advantage to soc that anarchy was Brevented in lhv former German em- pirc. Mir. Lansing G2id:
 Tn the infancy of our republic tho
 Tn the ingancy of OUT republic the sympathy anu aid of France gave the support which was needed to make individual liberty the supreme ruler of the des.inics of the new born na- tion. From that time forward liberty !. has been, and still is, the most sacred and most compelling impulse in poli- tical life in America. Our policies at  to that principle. No American statesman has dared to depart from it or to speak to lessen it's influence over American thought. Today we Ameri cans are as earnest and intense in our devotion to human liberty as were our HQrbears.
 T.. s. Fought For Democracy.
 Tt was when they came to a full realization that the liberty was in danger; when they realized that France and the great dem oCracies of Europe were imperilled from the at tack of an ambitious autocracy that the nation determined to do it's part in freeing liberty and the world from s autocracy.
 "A mighty victory has been won. The imperial armies of the Central Powers have ceased to threaten They TO longer exist. Germany has suffered bitterly, is suffering bitterly and Ger many is entitled to suffer for what she has done. She has paid a fearful ' penal,y for the crime of plNnging the world into four years of blood and fire. Today starvation and want are the portion of the German people. Nio- Ience and murder stalk through the streets of their great ci.ieS. The very
 
 is the price of their own evil doing, the just retributiOn of their crimes
 But Little Pity For Huns.
 We may be disposed to pity those innocent among the Germans, but our pity is almost dried up when we con- slder what France and other nations have had to suffer from the invading armies of the Teutons Ten days after l landed in France, in Decem Der l made it my business to visit the bat tlefelds of the Marne, the Aisne and Ehe Champagne. No man could see I what I saw without bearing burning indgna ton against those responsible for such ruins and Instructions, with out an intense and undying hatred for war.
 France has endured unspeakable woes with a fortitude and determina- ton which excite the admiration and wonder of the world. To these splen- did troops who struggled without hinchng and with high courage, France and the world owe a deb3 of gratitude which the eternal memory of man only can repay.
 Anarchy Must Be Checked.
 And now we have new problems to solve, new dangers to overcome. East of the Rhine there are famine and idleness, want and misery. Like the anarchy which for years made an inferno of Russia, the fires of terror ism arc ablazes in the states of Ger many. Over the ruins of this once great empire the flames are sweeping westward. It is no time to allow sen- timents of vengeance and hatred to stand in the way of checking this con fla3ration, which will soon be at the y German borders and threatening other lands. We must change the conditions on which social unrest feeds and strive to restore Germany to normal though it be a weakened social order.
 Germans Must Have Chance.
 Two words tell the story-food and peace. To make Germany capable of resisting anarchy and the hideous despotism of the red terror, Germany must be allowed to purchase food, and to earn that food industrial conditions must be restored by treaty of peace It is not out of pity for the German people that this must be done and done without delay but because we the victors in this war, will he the chief sufferers if it is not done.
 Must Work In Order to Pay.
 'sYou may demand reparation as much as you please, but unless the German people are furnished mater ials for their industries and conner cial opportunities to sell the products of labor in the foreign markets ant unless the laborers have food Ger many can never pay, even in part fol the evil she has done. Furthermore a If the present state of chaos continues and political power continues to grow weaker there will be no responsible