The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-22
GERMANS HAVE
LITTLE TO SAY
Approve the Armament curtaiIment as
Rejecting the Sentiment of
Their Government.
ny The Associated Press,

BERLIN. Nov. 21.-German official
quarters continue conspicuously reti-
Icent in discussing the washington
conference beyond approving the arm
lament curtailment, as ref1ecting the
sentiments of the German government.
The German people confine their
comments to characterizing as pre-
Iposterouus" the charges that Germany
will ever again become a menace to
world peace. In the fact that we are
surrounded by countries commanding
standing armies already totalling more
than one and a quarter million men
alone suggests the physical impossi-
bility of our again becoming an ag-
gressor," said a leading foreign office
official, who was formally attached to
the diplomatic service at washington
and elsewhere.
BY way Of comparison, he pointed
out that Germany with a population Of
! $4,000, 900 was permitted an army of
only 100000 which he asserted was
barely sufficient to maintain internal
order in the event of a grave crisis.
1--WE have neither navy, fortresses nor
heavy artillery" he added, "an of
which suggests that our presence in
Washington would be wholly super
lfluous.
ION the other hand we are sur
rounded by neighbors armed to the
teeth. France maintains an army of
100000, Poland one of a quarter of a
million, while Czecho- Slovakia can in
simultaneously mobilize 10000 men,
The official added that French con-
ception of disarmament could not be
brought into harmony with the pur-
pose of the washington conference, as
claimed by Theodor Wolff in the
"TagebIatt,'' who accuses Marshal
Foch and recent French propaganda
in the United States of "cleverly set
ting the stage for NJ. BRANDS appear
ance'
Discussing the presence of French
negro troops along the Rhine, Herr
Wolff writes in his paper: Little did
the world dafam, when it victoriously
hailed the liberation of American
slaves that an European nation would
one day bring black regiment from
Africa and make them guardians of
European civilization and justice. We
did not adduce from a stirring perusal
of Uncle Toms Cabin the theory that
liberated and so-cal1ed subjugated
tribes We're to be misused in the d.
rection of being assigned to the role |
Of overseers.
eve believe it is high time that all
states, including the United States. |
express themselves on the issue as to |
what extent native sons who are eligi- /
BILE for military service in their coun-
try are to be replaced by natives
brought on from the interior Of Africa.
eve submit that the question
whether armies Of black or mahogany /
hued soldiers and raw-bone natives of +
Africa shall be tutored In the arts of /
modern warfare and let loose on Eu-
rope is quite fit theme for discus /
sion by the conference. which pretends
TO occupy itself with devising ways and
means TOR hating the march OF MILF
.arists.'
Herr Waltz wants the Washington
10 prescribe definitely the
limits to which Germany Is expected
10 disarm. He charges that now that
Germany has strapped her arms and /
eveled her fortresses the French are
bouncing on German industries on
shypocritical pretexts behind which
urk only shabby commercial jealousy"
The TagebIatt's editor suspects the
next French move viii be IN the "di-
-ection OF limitation OF German FAM
lies TO one offspring and expects TO
the arrival of committee Of
allied midwives to supervise the cur
of=the output"