Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
BRAND DPROPOSESTO REDUCE ARMY
BUT POINTS OUT PERIL In GERMANY;
us. AND BRITAIN NSUPPORTPOSIT
7ext Of N. Brands
Address at Armament Farley

pledged word. She has refused to
pay compensation due for the dew
astated regions. She has declined
to make the gesture of chastise.
ment that. after all. every man OF
sense would expect after the nor
rors that we have witnessed. Ger
many has refused to disarm. AT
that time France was strong and
Germany could not resist. Pubic
opinion in France was naturally
impatient, while under this provo
cation France remained perfectly
cool. There was not one gesture
on her part to aggravate the sit
uation. l may say here emphatic
ally in the face of the world we
have no hatred in our hearts. and
France will do everything she can.
She will use every means to pre-,
vent between Germany and herself
a recurrence of these bloddy con-
fiicts. She wishes for nothing else
able to live side by side in the nor->
NAL conditions of peace. But,
after all, we have no right to for
get; we have no right to abandon
ourselves. We have no right to
weaken our position. And were it
only because we must avoid giving
rise in the bosom that would only
be ready to take advantage of it,
to give rise to certain hopes that
ness.
Hostile German Element.
Gentlemen, I spoke a few minutes
ago Of the moral aspect of disarma-
ment, and 1 referred in my remarks
to Germany. I do not want to be
unjust; nothing is further from my
mind. But we know there is in Ger
many-there is one part Of Germany
that is for peace. There are many
people. especially among the work.
ing classes, who want to work. who
have had enough of this war, who
nave had enough Of war altogether,
ana who are most anxious to settle
down In peace, and also to set to
work. We shall do everything to
help that Germany, and if she wants
to restore her balance in the bosom
OF a pacific republic and democratic
institution. then we can help her,
and we shall all be able to contem-
plate the future with feelings of
security. :.
But. gentlemen, there is another
Germany. Germany which has
which the last war has taught no
lesson. That Germany keeps
thoughts in the back of her mind:
she has the same designs which
she entertained before the war;
she has kept the same preoccupa-
tfons and she cherishes the same
ambitions asssths Hohensollerns
eyes to this? How can we ignore
this state Of thingsT This. genss
tlemen, is happening at our very
doors. We have only got to lo0E.
This Ii happening but q, few miles
from US, and we can follow the
thought OF the Germans, or GER
tain Germans, and the evolution
which is taking place.
Danger I'm Kapp Putsch.
And, more than that, we have
witnessed certain attempts to re-
turn to the state of things. Nobody
could be mistaken about the real
bearing of what was called the
Kapp Putsch. We know very we'll
that If 1t had succeeded Germany
would have returned to her pre-
war state. and we do not know
what might have happened. or
rather, we know too well what
would have been the consequences
Of such state of things.
Gentlemen, a volume has been
published by no less a man than
Field Marshal Ludendorff, who still
enjoys great authority in many
German circles, and who is fol-
lowed by great part Of the elite
in Germany, professors. writer's,
etc. What do we read in this book?
Gentlemen. l. should not like to
mako too many quotations. I
should not like to prolong this
speech, and perhaps draw too
much on our attention, but this
is part Of my belief. and II you
are, like me, convinced that the
moral element Is of the utmost
Importance, you will allow me to
read just two or three passages.
This is the first quotation:
Quotes Ludendorn's Book.
TT is necessary that we should
learn to understand that we live
in warlike time. that struggle
will remain forever for the single
individual as for the state, a nat
ural phenomenon, and that the
struggle is equally great on the
divine order of the world"
In the same book Marshal Luden-
dorn produces these terrible words
of Won Moltke. on the 11th Of De-
cember. 1919:
Eternal day peace is a dream.
1t Is not even beautiful dream,
and war is one Of the parts of the
order of the world, such as it has
been created by God. 1t is by war
that are developed the noblest
virtues Of man, courage. disinter-
spirit of sacrifice, up to the aban-
donment of ones own life. With
out war the world would think in
morass of materialism."
War Decisive Means.
And further- this is Marshal
Ludendorn speaking himself now:
1T is for the political education
Of the German people, that it is an
indispensable motion, with the
knowledge of this fact, that in the
future war will be the last and the
only decisive means Of policy, that
thought completed by the virile
life of war, the entente shall not
be able to forbid the German
people to entertain it, although
they are trying to take 1t away
from us. War Is the corner stone
OF all intelligent policy. 1t is the
corner stone Of every form of fu-
ture, even, and chiefly Of the fu-
ture Of the German people"
And, lastly, Marshal Ludendorff
says this:
The warlike qualities of the
Prussians and German army have
been put to the proof on the
bloody battlefield. The German
people need no other qualities for
their moral renovation. The spirit
Of tbs former army must be the
germ which will allow this reno
vation to take place"
Such. gentlemen, are the words
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