The New York herald., 1921-11-27

this point OF view as in accordance with
its own conceptions
But. at the same time. 1t voted
against this submarine war, because the
Imperial Chancellor had declared that II
was possible that Denmark and Holland
might intervene In military sense. So
great were the demands made upon our
military forces at the time that even
these weak States might bring about a
military decision"
Inside Troubles Revealed.
The U-boat problem brought Luden-
dorff into ever growing opposition with
Won Bethmann-Hollweg, as shown In
this extract:
According to the point of view Of the
Imperial Chancellor the unrestricted
U-boat war was to be used as a means
of reprisals against England's acts OF
violence at sea. though the law was
quite on our side. No one
speaks any longer OF the ilIegality of un-
restricted U-boat warfare. The VIC
torious nations are building great num-
bers of U-boats and in the Revue MtH-
taire thee French Admiralty for very
good reasons adopts precisely the same
point of view as that which governed
the German conduct of the war"
Ludendorff also repudiates the charge
that he and the Supreme Army Com
mand were responsible for the proclama-
tion of the Kingdom of Poland and the
great political error which this con-
stituted at the time.
After declaring that Germany had
very likely brought about her own de-
feat by giving up, under pressure from
America. the unrestricted U-boat war in
1916. Ludendorff analyses President
Wilson's policy and asserts that
'The United States proved its will
to war in the light Of the following
naked facts:
The United States did not enter
the war Immediately after the be-
ginning of the unrestricted U-boat
war, nor Immediately after the first
American ships had been sunk in
February, 1917 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.
The United States entered the war
after the situation of the Entente had
changed for the worse owing to the
outbreak OF the revolution in Russia
and the effects of the U-boat war.
During the end of March Admiral
Sims of the American Navy was told
by Admiral Jellicoe that England
would not be able to stand the loss of
tonnage beyond November. On April
Wilson declared war against
Germany.
The book Is history translated into
terms of might. and the present disposi-
ton of power throughout the world rein
forces its iron arguments. The present
situation of Germany also gives color to
Ludendorff's reasoning that the sword
Is alone the preservative of peace and
liberty. A constant refrain runs through
the book-harping upon what the great
General considers the disease gnawing
at the hearts and souls of the German
people-the international, pacifstic.
defeatist idea" This crops up again
again. He even attempts to Germanize
these "alien" words by translating them
into such terms as nationally disinte-
grating" and nationally emasculating.
He strikes this note at the very be-
ginning of his foreword:
Before the war we Germans fiattercd
ourselves that we were a mastery
people, nation of rulers. But we were
anything but that. Our disposition to
be citizens of the world prevented us
from recognizing the psychology Of the
world or at least from prociaiming with
sufficient strength and emphasis that
this psychology, in spite OF all skilful
propagandistic camouflage, is in truth