Omaha daily bee., 1921-11-22
Country Could Raise Army
of 1000, Says Premier
Prussiansm Is Being Taught People by Ludendorfs,
Arms Conference Is Told-lmputation of
Martial Supremacy Denied
By France. .... ..s-..

we have witnessed. Germany has
refused TO disarni. At that time
France was strong and Germany
could not resist. Public opinion in
France was naturally impatient,
while under this provocation France
remained perfectly cool. There was
not one gesture on her part to ag-
gravate the situation.
may say cmphatically in the face
OF the world we have no hatred in
our hearts, and France will do every
thing she can. She will use every
means to prevent between Germany
and herself a recurrence OF these
bloody conflicts. She wishes for
nothing else but that the two peoples
should be able to live side by side in
the normal conditions OF peace. But,
after all, we have no right to forget.
We have no right to abandon our
selves. We have no right to weaken
our position. And were it only be-
cause 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 would be en-
couraged by our weakness.
Germany Still Seeks War. .
Gentlemen. l spoke of the moral
aspect OF disarmament, and re-
ferred to Germany. l do not want
to be unjust; nothing is further from
my mind. But we know there is in
Germany-there is one part of Ger
many that is for peace. There are
many people, especially among the
/ working classes, who want to work,
who have had enough of this war,
who have had enough of war alto
gether and are most anxious to settle
down to peace, and also to set to work.
We shall do everything to help that
Germany, and if she wants to re-
store her balance in the bosom of
pacific republic and democratic tnsti-
tutions, then we can help her, and
we shall a. be able to contemplate
the future with feelings of security.
But, gentlemen, there is another
Germany, a Germany which has not
changed her mind and to which the
last war taught no lesson. That Ger
many keeps thoughts in the back OF
her mind; she has the same designs
she entertained before the war; she
has kept the same preoccupations and
she cherishes the same ambitions as
the. Hohenzollerns did. And how
can we close our eyes to this? How
can we ignore this state of things?
This, gentlemen, is happening at our
very doors, we have only got to
look. This is happening but few
miles from It's, and we follow the
thoughts of the Germans, or certain
Germans, and the evolution which is
taking place. And more than that,
we have witnessed certain attempts
to return to the state of things. No
body could be mistaken about the
real bearing of what was called the
kapp putsch. We know very we'll
that if 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 we'll what would have been
the consequences of such a state Of !
things. III 'f
Ludendorff Is Quoted.
Gentlemen, a volume has been
published by no less man than
Field Marshal Ludendorf, who still
enjoys great authority in many
German circles, and who is followed
by great part of the elite in Ger
many, professors, philosophers,
writers, etc. We do read in this
book. Gentlemen, I should not like
to make too many quotations. l
should not like to prolong this
speech, and perhaps draw too much
of your attention, 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 quota
tion:
"It is necessary that we should
learn to understand that we live in
warlike time, that struggle will re-
main forever for the single indi-
vidual as for the state, a natural
phenomenon, and that the struggle |
is equally on the divine order of
the world" =
Says Peace Is Dream"
In the same book Marshal Luden. |
dorff produces these terrible words |
of De Molcke on December II, 1919:
Eternal 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 Gre
ated by God. 1t is by war that are
developed the noblest virtues of |
man, courage, disinterestedness, de-
votion to duty and spirit of sac
rihce, up to the abandonment of |
ones own life. Without war the
world would sink in the morass of
materialism."
And further-this is Marshal Luz
dendortf himself speaking:
at is for the political education |
of the German people, and it is an
indispensable notion, with the knowl-
edge of this fact, that in the fu-
ture 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 If, although they are
trying to take IT away from us. War |
is the cornerstone OF all intelligent |
policy. 1t is the cornerstone of |
every form of future event, and |
chiefly of the future OF the German
people"
Praises Army Spirit.
And, lastly, Marshal Ludendorf |
says:
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
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