Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
SAYS GERMAN GOVERNMENT
MLSREPRESENTS POPULACE
By MAMMALIAN HARDEN
Germany's Foremost Pub1icist. }

Oeased Wire Service to The JournalD
Copyright, 1929
(AppareEtly only a ''noiSy minority
of sympathizers with the dethroned Ho-
henzollerns and other war lords of Ger
many have approved the course of the
German government in its naneuVers to
avoid payment of the allied reparatiOns
demands. There exists today real dis
tinction between the German people and
the German government, more real, per-
hapS, than when President Wilson in
sisted upon it and by doing so helped
to drive the HohenzolIerns from the
thronc.)
BERLIN, May 14.-During the pro-
gress of the world war, which APP
parently had no perils greater than
those of what is now termed peace"
President Wilson insisted upon dis
tinguishing always between the Ger
man people and the imperial German
government, Mr.. Wilson'S persistence
in making the distinction eventually
drove the Hohenzollerns from power
in the great German empire.
That distinction, let me- say, is
even more real today perhaps than
when Wilhelm Hohenzollern adorned
the Wilhelms trasse.
Anyone who suppOses that our
pro-forma republic, as it exists to-
day, represents what the German
people expected would follow the
revolutions which helped to bring
the disastrous war of the Hohenzol-
lerns, the Hindenvergs and the Lu-
dendorffs to a close. makes a grave
error and is in need of serious NcOr-
rection.
The people behind this republic
an" government at the allied con-
ference at Spa, at Paris, and at Lon
don, pleading poverty and rejecting
prejudiced bills which the allies pre-
sented while neglecting to make any
but the most impudent and arrogant
offers of its own as to what Ger
many felt she was able to pay.
What travesty to behold this re
those whom the people of Germany
banished and maintain the entire in
nocence of war guilt of the imperial
German government.
The people of Germany and of the
world have had to listen to this re
publican" government SANDER France
as a beggar exploiting her sores.
And, finally, we have had to submit
to an appeal by this republican,
government to the United States-an
appeal so obviously insincere that the
worlds conscience revolted in it's
contemplate ton.
After all this parade after all
these whines. after all these threats,
and lies, this same republican" re-
gime signs d document promising
to pay sum much larger than the
one it originally declared to be i'm
possible,
Our republican, government must
have known that eventually It would
have to come to this. Therefore. why
has it seized every available oppOr-
tunity since the treaty of Versailles
was signed some two years ago to
besmirch the good name of the Ger
man people? Why has it followed a
despfcable course which could only
result in deepening the worlds belief
in German insincerity? 1t is lament
sincerity exists. But is it any Won
der that the world today, after the
woeful exhibitions of the last few
weeks or the part of our republic
an" government, is more skeptical
than ever?
Is 1t any wonder that public opin-
ion, even among the masses of the
German people, is bewildered and
f1abberga sted By such kaleidoscope
changes?
MAN muf a6noT at lover TO say sDb today SE
than it was in the Hateful year of
1918
Just as in the old days. when our
rulers believed honor to be synOny-
nous with arrogant effrOntery, so to-
day the noisy minOrities are creating
a similar impression.
Unless German honor, in this time
of crisis, becomes voluntary and
wholehearted fulfillment of promise
and of duty, German honor will be
but a gaudy escutcheon at funeral
procession.