The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-20

the German people, and the object of
this peace-the policy Of humiliation
of our enemies-comes more plainly to
the fore every day. For the purpose
of justifying this policy of force the
fairy tale of German war-guilt must
be adhered to-
The spokesman of the enemy ALI
ance, Mr.. Lloyd George, is little dis
turbed by the fact that on Dec. 20 of
last year. he declared that no states
man wished war in the Summer of
1914, that all the nations had slipped
or stumbled into it In his speech at
the London conference on March he
calmly remarked that Germany's re-
sponsibility for the war was funda-
mental, that it was the basis on which
the Peace Of Versailles was erected,
and that, If the admission of this guilt
should be refused or give up, the
treaty would become untenable.
Now as before, the question Of war
guilt is the cardinal point in the future
of the German nation. The admission
of our alleged guilt regarding the
war, forced from the German repre-
sentatives at Versailles against their
judgment, is wreaking frightful veng-
eance; equally so the untrue acknowl-
edgment of Germany's completely
which Minister Simons gave at the
London conference.
| agree with your Majesty to the ut
termost depths of my soul-in my long
term of military service l have had the
good fortune and honor to enter into
close personal relations with your maj
esty. | know that all the efforts of
your Majesty throughout your reign
were bent toward maintaining peace.
| can realize how immeasurably hard
it is for your Majesty to be eliminated
from positive cooperation for the
Fatherland
The Comparative Historical Tables
compiled by your Majesty. a printed
copy of which your Majesty sent me
recently, are a good contribution to
the history of the origin of the war
and are calculated to remove many an
incorrect conception. l have regretted
that your Majesty did not make the
tables public, but limited them instead
to small circle. Now that the tables
owing to indiscretions, have been pub
lished in the foreign press, partly in
the form of incomplete excerpts, it
seems to me advisable to have them
published in full in the German press.
To my great joy I have heard that
there has been an improvement recent
ly in the health of her Majesty. May
God help furtheri
With the deepest respect, unlimited
fidelity and gratitude, l am your I'm,
perial and Royal Majesty's most hum
BILE servant,
(SigneO Won HINDENBURG.
Field Marshal.
House Doom, April 5, 1921.
My dear Field Marshal:
Accept my warmest thanks for your
letter of March 80 ult. You are right.
The hardest thing of all for me is to
be obliged to live in foreign parts, to
follow with burning anguish in, my
soul, the awful fate of our dear Father
land, to which l have devoted the la
hors of my entire life, and to be barred
from cooperation.
You stood beside me during the dark.
fatal days of November. 1918. AS YOU
know, 1 forced myself to the difficult,
terrible decision to leave the country
only upon the urgent declaration of
yourself and the rest of my counselors
who had been summoned that only by
my so doing would it be possible to
obtain more favorable armistice terms
for our people and spare it a bloody
civil war.
The sacrifice was in vain. Now, as
well as before, the enemy wishes to
make the German people expiate the
alleged guilt of Imperial Germany"
In my endeavor to subordinate all