The New York herald., 1921-11-22
FRENCH ARMY HALTS NEW
WAR, BRANDS WARNING

things. Nobody could be mistaken
about the real bearing of what was
called the Kapp Putsch. We know
very well that il it 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.
Gentlemen, volume has been
published by no less 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, philoso-
piers, writer's, and others. What
do we read in this book? Gentle
men, should not like to make too
many quotations. I should not like
to prolong this speech, and per-
haps draw too much on your at
tention, but this is part of my
brief, and if 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:
"It is necessary that we should
learn to understand that we live in
war like time, that struggle will
remain forever for the single indi-
vidual as for the State, natural
phenomenon, and that the struggle
is equally great on the divine or
der Of the world"
In the same book Marshal Luden-
dorff produces these terrible words
Of Won Moltke on the 11th Of De-
cember, 1919:
Eternal peace is dream. 1t is
not even a 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, disinterestedness
devotion to duty and spirit of sac
rifice, up to the abandonment Of
ones own life. Without war the
world would sink in the morass Of
materialism."
And further-this is Marshal Lu-
! dendorff himself speaking now:
"It is for the political education
Of the German people, and it is an
indispensable notion, 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 Ger
man people to entertain it, al
though they are trying to take it
away from us. War is the corner
stone of all intelligent policy. 1t
is the cornerstone of every form
of future even, and chiefly Of the
future of the German people"
And, lastly, Marshal Ludendorf
says this:
"The warlike qualities of the
| Prussian and German army have
been put to the proof on the bloody
battlefelds. The German people
need no other qualities for their
moral renovation. The spirit Of
the former army must be the germ
which will allow this renovation
to take place"
Such, gentlemen, are the words
used by the highest German au-
thorities who have preserved, and
l can quite understand 1t, the full
part, the great part at least. of the
confidence Of the German people,
aad that Is what we are listening
| to now. After a war that has
caused the death of millions OF
men, after the sore wounds that
have been inflicted and that are
still bleeding in the sides of the
countries of Europe, that is the
sort of thing that is being taught
at the very door of France. How
can you expect that France should
close her eyes to such words?
/ now come to the physical as
| poets OF disarmament. / can quite
understand that somebody might
say that 1t is not sufficient to har-
Dor evil designs; to make war one
must have appropriate means, be-
cause when it is question of war
enormous electives are necessary;
you must have the officers and non
commissioned officers; you must
have plentiful material-rifles,
guns. machine guns, artillery, &c.
and Germany has no longer any
of these. Germany, from the point
of view Of effectives, just emerging
from the war, from a war where
her men have been fighting for four
years, and | should be the last to
underestimate the valor of her
soldiers-our soldiers have had to
face and to fight the German SOL
diers, and they know TO what point
the German soldier Is able to carry
his heroism; but Germany, just is
suing from the war, still has seven
million men over there in Germany
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