The Washington herald., 1920-07-15
WHINING GERMANS
SEE REVENGE WITH
HELP OF RUSS REDS
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peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk. under
the terms Of which Russia went out
of the war, was in fact a treaty of
alliance between militarist Junker
Germany and Bolshevist Russia.
Threatened .Surrender."
Ever since the armistice of No
vember, 1918, the unholy relations
between the two partners have
grown more intimate. More than
once, Germany's democratic gov
ernment has openly threatened to
let down the flood gates on the east
so that Bolshevism might pour un-
hindered across Germany TO Eu-
ropes westernmost frontiers. At
other times, responsible German
leaders have hinted that the "merci-
lessness" of the allies left Germany
no recourse kept open alliance with
the Lenine -Trotzky government at
Moscow.
Between the two, 1t has been bra
zenly heralded. Allied Europe
would be face to face with a peril
that would make II advisable, in the
allies own interest, to often Ger
manys peace terms and exhibit
more tolerant attitude toward Boil
sheyism. Present hour events in
Europe are all on all fours with the
tactics which the Berlin Moscow
schemers have pursued for the past
year and a half.
Germans Hate Poles.
The Bolshevist designs on Poland
are. of course. agreeable In the
highest degree to the Prussian
ration of Prussian Poland from
what was formerly the German en-
pire is perhaps an even more poi
sonous thorn in the Prussian side
than the loss of Alsace- Lorraine.
The Prussians hate the Poles. They
would join with frenzied eagerness
in any military adventure OF diplo-
matte intrigue that promised to un-
dermine or embarrass the new state
of Poland.
European and American states
manship is confronted by no more
serious problem in the whole world
today than to frustrate at the earli-
est possible moment the danger OF
a more formal Prussian- -Bolshevist
alliance than already is in being.
II 1t is allowed to fructify and ma
terialize into something official and
real tho peace of Europe is not
worth the parchment on which the
treaty of Versailles was scribbled.
Germans CONFIDENT.
Germans believe, and with con-
siderable reason and demonstrable
fact to Justify it, that German or
ganizing genius harnessed to Rus
sia's limitless resources in man
power and raw materials would
bring about an amalgamation of
economic and military forces that
would be irresistible. Germans are
confident that within a generation
at the outside such a combination
would recoup for them the proud
position they occupied information
ally prior to their mad bid for
world domination six years ago.
1t would not surprise anybody
who knows Prussian mentality to
hear the political poker players
who now speak for Berlin in Spa
proclaim in accents of pretended
desperation that allied "rapacity"
Is driving Germany into Red Rus
sia's arms.
Firm stand Needed.
That is precisely where the
militarists and junkers of Germany
would like to be driven. 1t is the
goal for which indeed. they have
long been headed.
Concessions to whining German
claims will not advance allied in
terests Those can only be safe
guarded by making the Germans
understand once and for all that
the terms to which they agreed re-
quire to be fulfilled religiously in
letter or spirit, under penalty OF
incurring relentless and ruthless
force. which Is the only thing in
the wide world that Germany re-