Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-13
THE WILLY-NICKY LETTERS

clerical party dislikes England and
has sympathies for Russia, but does
| not dream Of throwing in its lot with
Russia in the present war. Between
these two parties the republican gov
eminent will remain neutral and do
nothing, England counts upon this
| neutrality and upon the consequent
isolation Of Russia. positively
know that as far back as last Decem-
Der, the French minister of finance,
Rouvier, from his own accord told
the financial agent Of another pow
er, that on no account whatever
would France join you in a Russo
Japanese war, even If England
should take sides with Japan. To
make these republicans doubly sure,
England has handed Morocco over to
France. The absolute certainty that
France intends to remain neutral
and even to lend her diplomatic sup
port to England, is the motive which
gives English policy its present I'M
wonted brutal assurance. This I'M
heard of state Of things will change
for the better as soon as France
finds herself face to face with the
necessity of choosing sides and
openly declaring herself for Peters
burg or London. AS I said before.
the radicals who gravitate to Eng
land abhor war and militarlsm,
whereas the nationalists, while not
Directing to war itself. won't fight
for England or against Russia. Thus
it evidently lies in the interest of
both parties to bring pressure to
bear on and warn England to keep
At. 80, .sIoa
| der to shoulder, the main result will
be that France must openly and for
mally join us both thereby at last
fulfilling her treaty obligations to-
ward Russia which are Of highest
value to us, especially with respect
to her fine harbors and good fleet,
which would thereby be at our dis
posal too. This you may rest as
sured, will put an end to made-up
| grievances about so-called breaches
of neutrality. This contamination
once reached expect to be able to
maintain peace and you will be left
free and undisturbed hand to deal
with Japan. May I add that T SIN
cerely admire your masterful politi-
cal instinct which c>>used you to re-
fer the. North Sea incident to the
Hague tribunal. For just this sys-
ematical1y distorted fact has been
used by the French radicals, Glenn
enceau and all the rest Of the tag
rag and bobtai1 as a further argu.
ment against the necessity Of
Frances fulfilling her treaty obliga-
lions toward Russia.
That North Sea Incident
"Of course, before we can take
any steps in this question and ap-
proach France that tiresome North
sea incident must first have been
brought to a close. For as, am
informed, Delcasse and Cambon have
already adopted the British view of
this incident and accordingly fixed
the attitude Of the French govern
ment in friendly way for England.
Should we, therefore, on this question,
bring pressure to bear on France,
she would, no doubt, choose the
British side, just what we don't want
her to do. IL faut que incident de
la Mer Noire soft clos" (the North
sea incident must be closed) first,
then only after that our action may
begin.
IT herewith enclose the draft of
the articles Of the treaty as you
wished, may it meet with your ap-
proval; nobody knows anything about
it, not even my foreign office; the
work was done by Buelow and me
personally. 'Moege Gottes Segen ru-
hen auf dem Vorhaben der beiden
hohen Herrscher, und die Maechtige
dreifache grippe, Russland, Deutsch-
land. Frankreich fuer INNER Europa
den Frieden bewahren helfen, das
Waite Gott'; (The chancellor said:
MAY the blessing of God rest upon
the acts Of the two high rulers and
may the mighty triple group, Rus
STA, Germany and France, forever
help maintain peace in Europe; may
God bring that about.") those were
his words when we had finished.
Won der Goltz Visits Russia
IT send to Suwalki in order to