Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-04-30
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN
Germany's Foremost Pubiicist.
Special Cable &c The Great Falls Tribune

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Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune
Berlin. April GA deliberate study
and cold. calm analysis of the situation
in Europe today leads to but one con
~clusiOn. There has been no more fatal
mistake in German policy since unre-
stricted submarine warfare was author
lied than the signing of the separate
treaty with the bolsheviki. The whole
world believes, although enormously
that besides the six published clauses
of the treaty there are secret ones of
a political. even of "A military character.
because it is hard to believe that Il
great government would go to an inter
national cooperative conference like
that of Genoa and then sign so useless
and harmful a document as this one.
1t is my opinion that the treaty is
stupid and disloyal, and a crime against
the German people. but | myself know
and can prove nothing was agreed upon
beyond what was published; that there
was no thought of a political or mill
tary plan: indeed, nothing whatever
behind this great noise, except the van
ity and ambitions of our short sighted
minister. Rathenau. who. while intel
Iigent. is unfit for craftsmanship and
wanted at all costs to play a promi-
nent part at the conference and score
a point.
It's Wilhelm all over again, this tim
in civilian garb and %uncrowned. Be
hind WiIhelm'S speeches and gestures,
too. there supposedly was some great
exalted ideal as rare above his the
atrical vanity as Einstein's brain is
above a film stars. but finally the war
lords everlasting playing with matches
produced the world conflagration.
Vanity. said Bismarck-himself quite
free therefrom-is a first mortage on
honor. Rathenau was Wilhelm's fav-
orite despite his Jewish descent and
received the highest decoration from
the former kaiser. He wanted to levy
en- masse'' in October. 1918, instead Of
asking for an armistice. He wrote
that only Ludendorff had lost his nerve
and that Germany could continue the
war indefinitely. Then he turned re-
publican after the defeat and called
upon all Europe to join in a general
fight against the world peril of Boil
shevism.' In the spring of 1921 he
published as his views hat Germany
would be acting knowingly dishonesty
If she accepted the impossible London
ultimatum. He is a much better edu-
Gated and more intelligent than Will
helm, but he is dangerously like him in
character.
IL tAIIutIs WY ''liIhhs hSdlii
has been drawn into a situation such
as frequently we had in the kaiser's
time. Nobady can imagine a better
means for nourishing the harmful be-
lief that the German policy is selfish,
dishonest and intriguing than the on
clusiOn of the treaty behind the scenes.
ANY German minister who, without
possessing statesman-like talent. re-
CARDS untruthfulness as the highest dip ,
lomatic duty and turns every report
about conversations and negotiations
so that he himself always is in the
Iimelight is entirely unfit to represent
Lloyd Georges brilliant cunning and
tricks.
The latter is wearing himself gut at
this ill-managed conference in little
cOmbats with the French, who are I'M
comfortably independent. Thus far he
has only succeeded in making the boil
shevists act like conquering heroes. al
though they came to beg recognition,
money and commercial intercourse.
Three dozen capitalistic states are vie
ing for the favor of those whom for
merly they branded as murderers, rob
bers and deceivers.
What material there is in this Genoa
conference for a ~satirist like Swift,
Unfortunately. Germany's laughter
has been checked by more serious con
Germs. This Russian treaty, whose
signing never was approved by the
clear-sighted here, is called an alli-
ance of the lame with the blind and
fell like blighting hail on the first
germs of Germany's gradually reviv-
ing confidence. Never since the armis-
tice has there been such DISTRICT of
the Berlin government as is felt in
France, Belgium, Poland, Czecho-Slo-
vakia, Rumania and even in eastern
Switzerland, and IN May 81 the repair
atiOns commission must decide about
Germany's future payments.
Berlin's prompt negative to the com
missions proposals without being ac-
companied by a practical counter plan
is as useless in solving the problem
as Tchitcherin's help. Unless the COM
ing four weeks shall produce a Franco
economic agreement. France.
fearful Of losing England's help and
standing alone before 200. 200 allied