Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-21
Arms to Be Cut,
BRAND Asserts

rsus stems in the paths of higher peace.
Ta,bing could be more pleasant than
NVil toil Won this. We bring here sac
laoo. We have suffered much In
~ war, we have fought great battle
snt we must regard now our own per-
manent security.
Moral Disarmament Needed
.uct me explain. for France, that II
-, want TO make peace IL must be
yssde by two people, YOU and your
na;sbbor, am speaking particularly
ns land armaments. because there is a
O,,nation which you have no right to
ssSIect It is necessary that besides
nsssical disarmament there should be
seneral atmosphere of peacc---in other
cords moral disarmament.
nIn Europc today some conditions
All, orc prevalent and France Is obliged
statp them. Many OF you here in
%,s country know France. Your men
.a,,e I'm 70 us at the most critical moment
y tbe war. They have seen France
.srJ they know her; they have seen
Tnrone and they know it. Certainly
hose men have come back to enlighten
sn,r rountry and they have come back
~ holm vine away some of the noxious
ssses which have been spread by the
e' "Iicrc in this country" the Premier
..rtinued. "you have your States and
A. moi know the tangled barriers of
Tr-one. It must be difficult for some
a you 10 realize what conditions are
nrsyailing in Europe after the war.
rpr;te admit that free American citi-
ysn would say The war is won. peace
is signed. Germany has reduced her
armt Most of her war material Is
Ssstroycd. Why is it that France keeps
snrb n considerable armyT
HSome people think that France must
hove some hidden thought. 1t has been
ia that France wanted to establish
- Europc n sort of military supremacy.
prohably this is the most painful and
.ruel thing a Frenchman could be told.
N tell the world that we have per-
eSious intentions and military designs
ia sad and most disheartening.
"Not one word Of it is true" cx-
claimed NJ. BRAND. pounding the table
sith both fists. "If there is country
,hst wants peace with all our hearts,
belieying in it with her entire faith,
tbat country is France. =.
"sInce the armistice France has had
IA wait for realization of certain things.
Shs has seen Germany haggle over her
nsdged word and the terms she had
ISned She has seen Germany refuse
to nav. The popular opinion is that
France is impatient, but France has
remained perfectly calm
"No Hatred in Our Hearts"
Referring to the German position,
Premier BRAND continued: I'VE have
ma hatred in our hearts. She (Brance)
Will use every means, between Ger
many and herself, to prevent bloody
recurrence. But after all we have no
rirht to forget, we have no right to
weaken our position and give rise to
certain hopes by our weakness.
II don't want to be unjust, but there
il one part of Germany that Is for
peace, a part who have had enough OF
this war, who had had enough OF war
altogether, and who want to settle down
to the pursuits of industry and peace.
That Germany we will do everything
we can to help.
"But there is another Germany the
Premier continued with forceful ges-
lures. There is a Germany that has
not changed her mind and for whom the
WAT was uOL IL hiS wv
many has kept the same occupations,
the same ambitions. How can we close
our eyes to this? How can we ignore
the conditions. More than that, we
have witnessed several attempts to re-
turn to n certain state of things
Here Premier BRAND cited the recent
attempts at coups d'etat. and quoted
from the book of General Ludendorff,
whose teachings, he said, were followed
BY the "elite. professors and writer's
of part of Germany. NJ. BRAND said
h desired to make excerpts from Lu-
dendOrff part of his brief.
Germany Able to Mobilize
After long quotation from Luden-
dorff who referred to the war as the
cornerstone Of all intelligent policies
and n creation of God, the Premier
added:
"Thesc are the character of words
used by the highest German authority,
and after the war has caused the death
o. millions. That is the sort of thing
that is being taught at the very door
OF France. How can you expect France
to close her eyes"' /
On the material side, as contrasted
to the moral side, continued NJ. BRAND,
Germany has at her disposition now
many soldiers trained in the great war.
II would be possible to mobilize the
German people tomorrow, he asserted.
through the newly organized police
force consisting of officers and under
officers Of the old army.
He then estimated that at least 300
OOO Germans were receiving daily mill
tary Instructions with all the machinery
Tor their mobilization at hand. The
present German Prime Minister, said
VI. BRAND, apparently was doing every
thing to make effective the Versailles
treaty, but there were many disQuieting
developments threatening the stability of
The present German Government. as
were evidenced by recent developments.
=, All the recent instructions given by |
1e minister Of war have reference to
tais police force, NJ. BRAND declared,
nd In addition, he said, Germany had |
pflous military groups under various
psetenseS since the war. An "ulti- !
Iauum was necessary to dissolve one
added. "
Within few days in Silesia the pre-
aier added, force of 40, 900 men with |
uii military equipment sprang up at the |
1l OF necessity. The full force of the |
present German machinery, he cstima-
w. would be sufficient to raise an army
VI ,oOO,OOO or 100000 men. The
premier declared his conviction that un-
W.T. .r such circumstances no American
N'leh would want France to disarm.
uermany's war materials had been
bnsely destroyed, the premier agreed,
ouL added that the problem Of mntrrinl |
Vas not one that could not be solved.
ne declared Germany was a nution of
sseat inustry which always had had the
wG,fold goal of commerce and war.
iae foundation of their genius ond
ItauStry, said NJ. BRAND, was in that
me Ie uermans could get what material