The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-12-11
Germany Preparing for War.


pu5l SHE'D cable f.cm its London
/ Times correspondent which shows
learly that Germany is leaving
aothing undohe to take full advant-
age of the division that has come
between the victorious allied powers
The Germans have never acknowl-
edged defeat. They have but poorly
disguised the feeling that they sur
rendered merely to predominant
power and the inference has been
plain that the surrender would not
last Beyond the existence of this
superior power. Nobody in France
has been fooled by the capitalization
of their oid-age enemy. Eveiy
thinking Frenchman knows that
Germany will seek revenge upon
France as soon as possible after
allied support is withdrawn, and il
was for this reason that French
leaders sought to strengthen even
the league of nations by guarantee
from the United States and Great
Britain that they would stand by
France if she were again uniustly
at acked. AS matters now stand
France is deprived not only of the
practical aid of our guarantees but
also even of the moral force that
American support brought to the
league of nations.
The answer to this situation is
found in the Public Ledger cable
wherein it is shown that Germany
has an openly acknowledged army
of / 900, 900 men, trained and dis
ciplined to the highest point. Fur
thermore it is stated that the army
of Gen Won der Go!tz in the Baltic
provinces is merely the nucleus OF
much larger force that has been
secretly organized in the interior of
Germany. Gen Won der Goltz is
as much of a militarist now as he
has ever been, and any force over
which he has control could be util-
lied at any tine by the military
party.
The revival of Prussianism has
kept pace with the widening of the
breach among the allied nations.
Now, the Prussian spirit appears
again to be in full flower. A couple
of weeks ago this naughty, domineer-
ing viewpoint made itself manifest
ia a request made by the German
government upon the supreme coun-
ell at Paris that allied officers be
prevented from wearing their rn;-
forms in Germany. AS the Ledger
cable recites, these officers have
been exposed to manifestations OF
growing hostility towards them on
the part of German officers, who
have made no secret of their belief
that the day of reckoning is COM
ing" Does feeling like this
comport with the spirit that should
animate defeated and repentant
people?
Herr Noske, minister of defense
and present dictator of Germany, is
now being generally regarded as
the ad iterim representative of the
old military caste. He is keeping
the way open for return of mill
tary and probably also monarchial
control. We are told that the great
majority of the officers serving I'M
der Noske are open members of the
Hohenzollern association, which
avowedly favors the return of the
imperial regime. A small minority
belongs to republican organiza-
ton. Herr Noske has suppressed
the organ of the republicans while
he permits the Hohenzollern associ-
alton to flourish.
We wonder il Senators Lodge,
Reed, Shields, ct al, appreciate
the full meaning OF the demonstra-
tons that have been ACQUIRING in
Germany in favor of Hindenburg
and the old military regime. We
wonder also if they are attempting
to correctly interpret the significance
of the stubborn opposition that has
grown up in Germany to the signing
of the protocol to the peace treaty.
Have they considered the German
Vaccinations in Silesia and the
mutterings in the Balkans in con-
nection with their breach of faith
with our allied friends and our utter