The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-03-18
GERMANS SOUND
WAR ! DRUM, SAYS. !.
MILITARY !. !. | SEER
j. w. T. Mason Believes Teutons
Would Take Allies
Unaware
RUSSIA MAY BE ARSENAL
BY j. w. 4. MASON,
Newspaper Enterprise Associations
Expert on European Political and
4 . p. T.

Expert on European POlltlcal and N
s Military Affairs.
The German war trumpet has sOunG.
ell. Let the democratic nations tax"
heed Of the warning.
To trust Germany has been proven
disastrous even for Germans them
selves.
The last act Of, the Ebert govern
ment, as the representative of Ger.
man democracy. was to secure the i'm.
munity Of the war-guilty militarists
from trial at the hands of the allies.
The first net of the militarists, once
their safety was assured. has been
to hurr from power the very men OF
their own nationality. Who protected
them.
Cynical smaterialism. supported by
bay0nets, has thus forced its way
hack into control Of Germany by Il
typical act Of treac cherry.
M The new government may call itself
republican for the moment as a meas
ure Of precaution. But, if the men
now guiding (;ermany's destiny have
their way. the eventual restoration ~
Hohenzollern monarchy is in
eyitalle, Neither the father nor son
who fed the field Of battle at the sign
Of defeat is likely to lie called hack,
But a nearer Of the Hohenzollern3tradi-
tion IL destined to have the throne
should the nation support its. new mas
ters. .5'
The German people will sustain
either the present military regime. Or !,
subsequent one. if they can be show:l
by the war lords that there is chance
to eyade the terms Of peace and raise
Germany from her fallen state.
Such a chance does exist. To ignore
1t will he to invite disaster.
The allies are disputing among
themselves about the peace treaty. ,1G
, months after the armistice. The
United States has substituted all the
petty tactics Of, domestic political
strife for broad spirit of intera-
| stiOnalism.
Though still technically at war with
Germany. Americans have not hesit.
ated to flaunt and harshly criticize
the nations who fought by our side
in the most desperate struggle for
freedom the world has ever known.
These same nations, for their part.
are passing bitter comment upon
Americas present course. International
distrust and suspicion exist every.
where among the victOrs Of the war.
Why. therefore. shouldn't the Ger
man militarists believe there is Il
chance for Germany to gain by the
quarrels of the allies? If. the German
people support that view, the respon-
sibility will rest on those who allow
the uuarrels to continue.
The allies and America cannot re-
ply to the new German revolution BY
sending military expedition into
Germany. The experience Of tryin.
to force government upon the Rus.
slams favorable to the allies has shown
how Impossible the task.would be ic
the case of Germany.
There Is only one effective reply
the Germans will understand There
must be cessation Of jealous bicker-
ings among the allies and an end t.
Americas provincial spirit in inter-
national relations.
Germany cannot make q gesture OF
defiance now. because her army is dis
banded and her military equipment
is in nOsSessiOn Of the allies. But,
no military authority HOuld consider
this permanent disbarment if his own
country were in Germany's place.
Russia, for instance. may become Ger
| many's future arsenal.
Before. 1914. who believed Germany
was planning world war to make
the Hohenollern masters Of the world !?
The German militarists are taking the
same chance now that their new pro-
ject will lie dismissed by the allies
and America as too futile for serious
counter-measures.
If they are right in their assump-
tiGn. nothing can prevent a new con-
if1ict in which Germany will be allied
with Russia and her granaries. and
will he thus far better prepared than
in the recent struggle.
In that case. citizen Americans. you
will have to fight again or see German,
militarists conquer the world.
There is only one certain way to
prevent this calamity. Germany must
! he made to realize that the democratic.
nations are standing together and that
America is with them beyond any
| possibility Of doubt.