The Washington herald., 1920-04-18
Afect to See IN Senate S
Treaty Rejection Protest
Against French Attitude.
WANT SEPARATE PEACE
Teutons Believe America
Would Agree to More
Lenient Terms Now.

uashIngton HeraId-PubIie Ledger
Service, Special Gable Dispateh.)
Frankfort, April 1.-THE Ger
mans are closely watching allied
opinion concerning the occupation
bf Frankfort, and the possibility
bf separate peace with America
IS becoming more attractive each
lay. They AFFECT to see in the SEN
hte's rejection of the Versailles
Ereaty a protest against interven-
Jon in European affairs and an i'm
bhed protest against the French
kttitude tLW ards Germany. They
Eherefore are hoping that America
riH lead the others in forgetting
luminosity and shaking hands with
he new Germany.
The bitter enmity towards Amer
ca- and President Wilson when the
treaty was signed. an enmity
yhfch sLrang from the feeling that
they had been tricked into an ar
nistice snare OF the promise OF an
easy peace, has now rassed. Amer
can visitors to Frankfort are re-
befyed with cordiality while youths
and young women want to know
when 1t will be possible to get
Passports for the United States.
Germany is broken" is their
favorite expression. but they work
bard just the same.
Hope for Separate Pence.
If the Wilhelmstrasse is wise"
baid a German banker. sit can
profit by the Frankfort situation to
hegotiate a peace with America
HAT will no
many to restore its financial and
Economic strength through the
limited States" He observed it
Eould be impossible now to forge
p treaty SO hostile as that of Yer
|saines; that statesmen have learned
nuch and that the entente people
haYe forgotten much.
Meanwhile the French bring SOL
Pliers But the occupation is one of
fhe least conspicuous I have seen.
hnd is in fact a model 20 the Ger
)nans who never could have exer-
pissed any such restraint
Spartaean Element Feared.
One source of concern is what will
|happen when the French leave. The
|unruly Spartacan element, held pre-
patton and which broke out at the
|tme of the kapp-Luettwitz coup, is
|stin here. The people fear they will
|attempt once more to take the city.
|The return OF the Reichswehr is not
WANTED here.
This reaction against the militar-
|ists Is strange. The Reichswehr all
|agree Is not a very formidable fight
ing force, although we'll officered.
ffhss British hold the opinion that
the red army now dissolved was
|nuch better material. But none of
the Rhine armies fear the Reichs-
|wehr, even though the Belgians have
|less troops than the 5000 Americans
on the Rhine. The Americans are
the best force physically on the
Rhine today and the Reichswehr
would fnd only defeat in an en-
counter with them.
A City That Never Smiles.
Frankfort is burdened with trou-
piles. Potatoes are scarce and liy-
Fng' fantastically high. This is a
lefty that never smiles: 1t shows
|only forced artificial laugh. Only
Fhe profiteer and foreigners raidate
|cheerfulness- AS one walks the
streets one sees only dumb. undues-
|tioning gloom on faces. The hand
some buildings look shabby, out
|wardly dirty. They seem to belong
20 a bygOne age. Frankfort, indeed,
1s the rich man fallen on evil days,
but whose coat is out at the ell
BOWS, still bears the fine cut of a
good tailor and whose trousers,
frayed at the edges. still display a
brave crease.
He smiles not but Is determined
20 restore his former greatness.
Copyright, 1920, by Public Ledger Col