The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-16
Predicts Real Revolution
: AS Germany Faces Ruin
Simonds Sees in Assassinations Struggle Be-
tween Monarchists and Radicals for
Control of Government.

Oonttnkeo from Pd0s One.
to take some account Of the height
from which it has fallen. Even In
that aiibe there was a feeling that
the wonderful unifcation had come
too late. The rich colonies, the
fairast fields of exploitation, had
fallen to other countries. Britain
nd France divided Africa: Russia,
Japan and Britain. Asia, while the
United states barred the road to
extension in both Americas by its
tnsistence upon that "impertinence"
which was the Monroe doctrine.
Missed His Chance.
Yet, despite these handicaps,
there was still the sense that there
was Just time left to restore the
balance, before the Anglo-Saxon
and the Slav finally established
their world dominions. But the
real significance of German defeat
In 1915 lies in the fact that. so far
as one can see, the time has now
passed forever; il is not that Ger
many fell temporarily. as France
has fallen more than once, the real
thing is that Germany missed what
was actually her last chance of be-
coming, a world power in any large
sense.
Few Americans accurately ap-
praise the extent of the real Ger
man disaster in the last war. 1t Is
not q thing measured by repara-
tons following military defeat, 1t
Is, little, as IL defeat coming to
the United States the victorious
enemy had stripped us methodical-
nd ha1
have added to the area of the thir-
teen original colonies and, in ad-
dition, taken a part of this original
homestead
Deprived of His Gains.
The treaty of Versailles did ex-
actly this to the German. 1t took
from him the Prussian acquisitions
of the eighteenth century at the
expense of Poland, of Austria; it
deprived him of all of the gains of
the nineteenth century. save a tiny
fraction of Lorraine and a more
considerable fraction of Slesvig. 1t
separated East Prussia from the
main bulk of German territory. In
a word, it deprived Germany, not
alone of provinces, but of essential
unity.
task to reconstruct the Germany of
1914 France and Belgium must be
beaten and Alsace Lorraine and
EuHe n-Malmedy retaken. Denmark
must be coerced or conquered, Po-
land must be destroyed. Even II
ones conceive these enormous
task Is accomplished. then all
thess old labors OF assimilation
must be begun again. More
over since the Pole has tasted lib
ertE and the inhabitants of Alsace-
Lorraine have been for a period of
years returned to French rule, all
theSpast of German effort has been
wiped out and one must begin. not
at ss191S but at 1871, for Alsace-
Lorraine and at 1915 for Posen and
West Prussia.
War Frees Provinces.
The half of the disaster, however.
is not disclosed in the territorial
losses of Germany. herself. 1t is
the German world. a thing far more
considerable, which has been cir
cumscrfbed. In 1914 Austria. in
which German culture was predom-
inant, ruled over millions of people
who were, against their will. forced
to accept German language and
customs. for whom German was the
official language. Bohemia, Mora
via, Austrian Silesia, the Bukovina,
the Slovenian lands of the Adriatic
provinces. all were held by German
rule although il was Hapsburg. not
Hohenzollern.
But the world war not only lib
Grated all of these provinces. it au-
tomatically eliminated German in
fiuence and German culture. To-
day many millions of Germans, that
is men and women of Teutonic
race. are subjected to the rule Of
other nationalities. This is the
case in Poland, in Czecho-Slovakia,
in Southern Tyrol. Germany. it,
self. too. has seen the mournful
spectacle of the return of hundreds
of thousands of Germans from Pol
ish provinces. driven by expulsion
OF by their inability to endure sub
lection to a race they deemed in
ferior. Exactly the same story is
to be told of Alsace-Lorraine.
where the German functionaries
and agents have crossed the Rhine.
leaving behind them the wreck of
half a century OF intensive effort
to Germanize.
AIrlcn.
The world war discovered the
United States as a world power.
Despite all the blows dealt to the
British, il left the British Empire
a tremendous fact. Whatever may
be the immediate future of Russia,
IL is plain that sooner or later a
mighty nation will be recreated on
the ruins of the old Romanoff edi-
fee. an empire extending to the
Pacific and including within its
frontiers an enormous area. Even
France, despite her colossal losses,
holds intact an African Empire
which insures her a future.
But how shall Germany, shorn
not alone OF her colonies, which she
must regain. IL at all. only as a
consequence OF a victorious war
with Britain, become again a world
power in the real sense? To fight
her immediate neighbors to regain
her own lost provinces. this must
be the first step. But such a war,
even If successful. means exhaus-
tion TO victor as well as vanquished.
II means, beyond all question, in
freasing the advantage of Britain.
of the United States. even of the
Russia of the future for II they
I are neutral they will gain and IL
they are not neutral, that is. if
they tight against Germany. then
German defeat is assured.
See Disaster to Race.
The thing that lies patent before
German. eyes, If they are opened in
the slightest degree is the disaster,