Albuquerque morning journal., 1919-05-29
LUDENDORFF NEVER HOPED FOR PEACE
OF UNDERSTANDING; NOT SURPRISED
ATHARD RAlSDEDAANDEDBY BYEN7ENTE
ALLIES SCORNED INFLUENCE OF
AMERICA; HOPES UNITED STATES
WILL REDEEM GERMANY; TERMS
!, OF PEACE CAN NOT BE ENFORCED

sons alone a reduction would be made
as soon as we could have well ordered
conditions again, after the shocks and
disorders of the war.
Germany Stands on Unsteady Base.
The Western Powers must have
quite as much interest as we in the
return of orderly conditions, They
have new gradually come to know
how Germany looks and on what wav-
ering basis our state and social order
stands Their own interest demands
Germany capable of living. with
the pairing down of West Prussia and
the cutting off of East Prussia.
Without the agricultural produce
OF these provinces we cannot feed even
the two-thirds of our population which
Germany's own agricultural produc-
tion has scantily fed in the past.
Without the Upper Silesian and the
Saar coal fields, and with the loss of
so per cent of our ores in Lorraine,
which made possible our large scale
steel production, we cannot hope for
sufficient export quantities of steel
to permit us to buy necessary food
stuffs
League, Perhaps Hopeful Sign"
similarly / may explain the un-
tenability of the conditions of the
peace terms in every field. The worst
thing about them in a word is the
extent of the unemployment that will
continually menace Germany. Who
ever has need of a healthy Germany
which Will he safe against revolution
or industrial and social overturn, must
not throttle Germany but must see
TO 1t that the German can work as
a free nan in his home land and re-
gain love for his work must NrpG"t1
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ment; must furnish it with consider
able quantities of food and raw mate
riais; must raise its rate of exchange
and help 1t over the initial financial
difficulties of peace time.
Comparing the requirements | have
indicated with the conditions imposed
by Versailles will show that | know
of no one condition in the terms which
from my standpoint, speaking in good
conscience as a soldier, | could char
acterze as possible of fulmilment.
"A league of nations is perhaps al
hopeful sign. 1t was urged long ago.
by the German philosopher Kant, who
was a Prussian but whose views were
applicable to present con-
diti0ns, The achievement of the lea-l
que at this time may be credited toi
the distinguished service of your pres
ident, 1t can assuredly perform veryI
useful work if organized and con-
Quoted in the right spirit | cannot
believe the league will wish to eXl
clude Germany or to lock out Ger
many permanently. Surely its found |
ers would not inoculate it with the
death germ the first hour of its birth. !
IF the League of Nations can and
will help US, it will be well. other !
wise, it seems to me, only America
can be financially strong enough to
help US. | am not so soft as to beg
for anything that cannot be paid back
with interest, nor am ] so naive as
o suppose any country would give US
help without sohnd security Such Sc
curity may be had from us.
Dependence Is Painful
THE creditor could fix the price
Of exports, control the finances and
he International labor laws and these
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