The Washington herald., 1921-03-13
Simonds Declares Ulti-
mate Object Of Strategy
Planned for Three Dec.
AIDES Is at Least Foun-
: dation for Triumph
Over Actual Winners of
European Struggle.
By FRANK H. srhosDs.


By FRANK III. sIMoHDs.
The immediate German ma
noeuvrs in London Is. after all. Of
relatively small Importance; what
counts IL that We have seen dis
& closed the strategy by which Ger
: many hopes in the next three de-
cades to escape. from the conse-
uuences of defeat and transform
That defeat into decisive triumph.
or at the least intosthe foundation
Loo. . later triumph.
From the moment of the armis-
ttcs to the pressnt hour Germany
40 been annRxed IN q stupendous
tfon on two fronts-that at home
and that abroad.
objects IN FatherlanA-
purpose Of manoeuvre at
home has bean to establish the
EfoiIowing points:
81. That Germany was noe guilty
of precipitsting. much less plan
ming the world war. Her states
men were stupied enough to allow
her to seem guilty. but In reality
II That Germany was not de-
zfe3fed In the Held. Her. victorious
Ezrmfes retired to German soil, after
zhsr statesmen had been tricked by
Mr.. Wilson's peace proposals and
her radicals at home had betrayed
Their country by the revolution.
That Germany is not bound by
the terms signed at Paris and en-
hodied in the treaty of Versailles.
hseanse she was innocent, because
she was not defeated and because
was extorted under
threat Of military force.
In G.ise Of vietins.
New this Is the fashion IN which
4he home front has been restored
md consolidated since 1918, that is.
since the arnistice of Rethondes.
EThs German people have been
steadily taught that they were the
victims of conditions manufactured
by their enemies at the moment
when the war broke. that they were
: khs =dupes Of Wilson in November,
1873. and that Versailles was "a
=peace Of Violence" without legal or
force. as a consequence.
xhus . united German public has
ban created to evade all the terms
Rffhe treaty.
much for the manipulation on
LA home front. As to the enemy
front, the scheme has been, of
course, quite different.
Bases Of Operations.
At bottom the Germans have
eesed all their operations on two
elear conceptions:
world is indisputable. A ruined
Germany must affect the whole in
{dnstrial situation of the world, both
Rpm the economic and the political
04as-from the economic because
=0ermany Is great market for for
.ekgn countries; from the politicai
-hecause there is always the peril
a.a2 Boishevism.
"A The Anglo French American
which won the war is
by no means a natural alliance, and
cennot be expected to endure In
=pkace time. Great Britain and the
States have enormous in
=fefest in preserving the German
uerket for their own products and
@Ww materials. France, with no
such interest. Is bound to seek to
reduce German strength and thus
tQ~ encounter Anglo American op-
: POSITION. But the Anglo-American
-7ssociation Is no more to be re-
esrded as permanent than the
-Anglo-French.
Purposes of Strategy.
cit follows, then, that all German
ofeign policy since the moment
of the armistice has been directed
wizard two things-toward estap-
lehtng the Importance for the Brit
4sh-and American exporters of the
German market and their interest
In preserving II; and toward sep
=Arating France from Great Britain
md the United States and Great
Brftain from the United States. On
lrthe success of this strategy ulti-
ruetely rests the hope of German
sscape from the consequences of
hef military defeat.
Now, looking back over more than
two years, the whole German op-
=sration Is spread before the
thoughtful observer. Germany has
pfsyed the commercial game with
fonSummate skill. She has found
N foreign economists and bankers,
IN those of the Keynes school and |
pfother schools, precious allies.
She has reused the apprehension |
pfBritish and American producers |
ager the perils alike OF the deeen- |
fatton of the German market, fol- |
lowing too onerous exactions and |
: the dangers of paralysis in their |
yyn home markets due to an over |
rtmulation Of German industries to |
pay German indemnities.
Tries to Exasperate France.
Al the same time she has carried |
r1h<with respect to France a cam |
petgn q evaporation. designed to
Tempt the French into extreme |
neasures without regard to Anglo
American sentiments, and thus sep
irate the allies. She has steadily /
refused IN neef tha