Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-01-22
.ARM|ST|CE GREATEST
CRIME IN HISTORY
John Kendrick Bangs Declares
That Germans Do Not Believe
They Were Defeated, Are
Wholly Unrepentant and Are
Only Biding Their Time

perpetrated' said John kendrick Bangs,
speaking at the Burlington high school
auditorium last evening under the au-
spices OF the Vermont Chapter Daugh-
tars of the American Revelation. Tho
proceeds of the lecture viii be used to
help endow n bed in the American hos
pital at Rheims. France.
MIR. Bangs reviewed some OF his cN
Ierences in France during the war pc
rod and directly following tho war. In
the midst OF his discourse. he handled
International relations without gloves,
making statements which made direci
Tits az President Wilson. tho United
States Senate in Tie handling OF the
raace treaty, and the BoisheV!ks, radi-
Gals, hypherates and all those who are
trying to stir vi the country against our
recent allies.
In explanation OF the statement that
the armistice was "a crime against civ
i,i2atiOn Mir. Bangs said that during mis-
trip into Germany. he had occasion :"
meet at first hand the German people
and to observe their atti,ude followinS
the war. He declared ;hat the German
people have no idea that th,Y have real
ly suffered a defeat. that there is not tn
slightest repentance or remOrsc among
them. and that they are Just waiting Cor
the day when German Kultur shall. pre-
vail. And they arc free to state when
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time
Comparing the conditions of France
and Germany following the war, Mr.
Bangs said that the war had not touched
Germany in the least German cities
showed no devastation the women were
well fed well dressed. happy and .augh-
ing and the people as whole did not ap-
uo,r .s a dcroated noo,fc hut "a a neo-
,lo ,vbo ,,o.o iidir, air ti,no for great
or tl,inos ON tho othcr hand the cities
IF tr,nco Witch rplI within tho ,var
zone were sirinued of their machinery
and other material which could he used
TO rebuild ,hc irc of the community. this
nlachincry having been TRANSPORTED into
GERMANY. where II is being used to got
ne Industrial ltfc Of the German people
under way ahead Of that of France.
And tncn. there is tie difference in
tho pcCuie themselves. the Herman wonl-
en- and children untouched Ey The horrors
Of war w,li'o tho French women have
boon through hell and il has loft it's i'm
PRECISION urou them, while there arc hun
drodS Of children born since tho war DO
gan who do net know the sound of "A
atch
At times. Mr.. R9nr4 brought touches
of humor ini" his lecture winch relieved
IL" n"r" serious ASPECTS OF the taIN. ne
ctnrNaS'Z'o me human t"uch when was
rrc-enll"ent 'hr"uShon, ASSOCIATIONS ne
tween "u classes oi men connected WIN
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! America, .ahn,. n,cn,be~s Of which arc
| pettinu "a, ,n,cb , d,,, so those hove, did
| n p,onth o,or tbnr. ,vould have the same
| snirit az service ,uiirb those hovs had -
| lilo told # onc dourhbov "a whom he had
| tried to give a Utt.c money for a great
| service which the boy had rendered him
| This bov who mad come from the dregs
| of New Orleans life. and had never had
| any schooling IN his life. refused to take
the money, and said, simply 1--WE didn't