New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
America Sees Stern But Just
Peace---Cermany Bitter
And Revengeful

! suffered through Germany's general
acquiesccnce in the crime Of the wars
authors, it may at least be inquired
generations yet unborn. 1t is easy
enough to say offhand that the sins
of the fathers shall be visited upon
their children and their children's
children, but this doctrine of heredi
tary misfortune scarcely has found |
a place in international Jurisprudence"
Fears are also expressed by "The
Springfield Republican" that the
treaty may permit the crushing of
Germany:
"While it is in force Germany will
be as helpless as China, and if in the
treaty there are any provisions to
safeguard the German people from
oppression they do not appear in the
summary. If those nationalistic inter
ests which have been calling for a
war after the war should get the upper
hand Germany, under the treaty, would
be unable to protect itself in any way
whatever.
"The Allies, in short, have the power
under the treaty, if the summary cor
rectly represents the case, to crush
Germany to atoms, and while no such
desire is felt in the United States, in
some other countries a rancor has been
shown in some quarters which may
make the German delegates hesitate to
sign so many terms, the full implica-
tion of which is not clear"
The German Language Press
The German language press of the
country views the treaty as the
death knell of Germany as an indie
pendent nation, and sees only hate
and war to flow from it. Says the
Detroit "Abend POST"
"The conference has ended in bit
terness and hate. The world, not made
solid for democracy and in spite of
the league of nations, is doomed to
more war, and possibly worse than
ever before. The blockade which has
been on since November II and will
be kept on has placed thousands of
women and children on the death list.
This is the doing of unkindly hearts
which will have no good for the fut-
ure."
A similar point of view is ex-
pressed by the radical "New York
Call":
"To the victorious diplomat that peace
is good which gives him his day of
glory. But it is the peoples, not
the diplomats, who have to live
with the peace, and to the plain
man and woman the lasting test of
a peace is not gain in territory
or coal mines, for the exploitation of
q few rich groups, but longevity. The
peoples always have prayed for a peace
that would endure, and the diplomats
always have fooled them. If to some
60,000,000 Germans and innumerable
Germans still to be born, Danzig and
the Saar valley and other provisions
will remain as hated symbols of the
peace of 1919, the virus of disease is
in that peace. If 100000 German
Austrians remember it only as a peace
that bottled them up in the midst of
hostile nations and denied them their
desired union with Germany, that will
not make for a peace Of longevity If
to some 350,000000 Chinese Shantung
remains as a symbol of hatred against
the peace, that too will count against
it. If to all these are added other
millions in central Europe and many
millions of the workers and peasants
. of Russia, it would seem as if the
league of nations would have need of
; pulmotors. Always, in history, mass
hatreds have outlasted international
artifices designed to thwart them"
The proposed triple alliance in aid
Of France, to be laid before the Sen
, ate by President Wilson, has received
as yet little discussion. Two Repub-
lican Senators-Borah, of Idaho, and
Curtis, of Kansas-have come out
: against any agreement to come to