The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11
LudendOrH UnbrOken, Still 'WarlOrd

needed that General Ludendorff
VINO perhaps more than any Other
person shaped the policies Of Ger
many during the war. had failed "a
| learn humility or wisdom from de.
| toat. It IL found I'm his now book
War and Politics" which has just
/ been published. In this volume
Ludendorff glorifics war and looks
| forward TO new wars IL " the un.
changed Ludendurff who writes:
The word annihilatlon must not
I be taken literally. Armies can b.
annihilated but only in the rarest
cases Of the pre- war era could the
| entire forces OF great military
state be destroyed by one blow.
/ Tho sum Of defeats undermines an
army. if then the viii OF the pcople
u broken the one side becomes do
. teuooloss That Is what happened
TO us. while We still stood on enemy
territory indicated IN the hattie.
Held. Perhaps II we had boen vic.
torious on July Is, 1918. the viii or
our enemies might have been
broken
Blnmcs Political Mistakes.
This note runs through the book
ii"rmany was not beaten on the
battle front, and IL is from the po-
littcal mistakes that Germany must
profit II she Is TO win the next war
lie maintains Germany was over
come by the failure on the home
uont, which In turn was due. first.
TO ihc effects OF enemy propaganda
and sccondly. to the failure of the
politicians land principally OF the
late Won Bcthmann- Hollwegl I'm
railing 60 counteract 1t and 20 give
the necessary support to the army
leaders
The concluding chapters OF the
book are devoted once more TO
emphasizing the soldiers point OF
view, that OF military efficiency ana
preparedness, tho cultivation OF
racial and national pride, the need
OF national unity and the abolition
OF the international. paCiiictic. de
teatist' mode OF thought OF the
German people Ludcndorff com
ments az follows upon Fraucc In
the last chapter, after reviewing
the benefits and disadvantage that
have accrued 10 America. England
and Japan by the display OF
strength which Germany was forced
to manifest:
France Is Master.
France IL master In central Eu-
rope. II bases it's might upon the
strongest army in the world and
upon tho fighting powers Of the new
states created in central Europe.
chicf of which are Poland and
Czecho- -Sloyakia. It lies across the
trade routes Of England and con.
stitutes, with central Europe at its
back, md In conjunction with the
United states, a far more formidable
oponent for England than over
Germany could have been, even II
France must reckon with the hos.
tility OF ltaly,'
The hook closes with an appeal 10
the German people to recognize
realities and TO draw strength and
faith from belief In themselves. in
their destiny and In tho creative
power of work.
After declaring that Germany
had very likely brought about her
own defeat by giving up, under
pressure from America, the unre-
stricted t-boat war in 1916, Luden-
dorff anaiyzos President Wilson'S
policy and asserts that:
The UMtcd States proved its
will TO war In the light OF the fol-
lowing naked facts;
The United States did not enter
the war Immediately after the be-
OF the unrestricted T-boat
war, nor Immediately after the first
American ships had been sunk In
February, l9t7. but only at the be- |
ginning Of April, Had the U-boat |
war really been the cause OF Amer |
Ica's declaration of war, this should /,
have followed Immediately.
Rcycrscs Brought L. &. In.
1.-THE United States entered the
war after the situation OF the en-
ente had changed for the worse
)wing to the outbreak OF the reyo-
ution I'm Russia and the effects OF
he C-boat war.
During the end of March Ad-
niral Sims OF the American navy
vas told by Admiral Jcllicoe that
England would not be able ~ stand
he loss of tonnage beyond No
'ember. on April 2, Wilson de-
Jared war against Germany"
The book IL history translated
nto terms OF might. and the pres
mt disposition Of power through
'ut the world reinforCos It's iron
The present situation
II Germany also gives color to
4udendorff's reasoning that the
word 10 alone the preservative of
'eace and liberty A constant re-
rain runs through the book harp
ng upon what the great general
onsiders the disease gnawing at
he hearts and souls of the German
international pact
istic defeatist idea" This crops
- again and again. He even at
tmpts 10 Germanize these allen"