The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-14
General Ludendorff Defends His Country And Draws Some Comparisons Between United States And Father land
By GENERAL ERICK LUDENDoRFF

Fly GENERAL BRICK LUDENDoRFF
 DuEing the war it was constantly declared that we Germans did not un- derstand the psychology of other peo- ples. Whether this was in general true I do not intend to discuss. But one thing is certain: I personally do not understand the Americans.
 I am not talking about their atti- tude toward the question of the war guilt. or about the invasion or tne ne Ruhr or the separations question. IL goes without saying that deplore the fact that a great part of the Americans still hold to their belief in Germany's guilt. This belief is false, but in view of all the propagandlzing which is still going on today can understand why it persists hard as this Is for me. But one thing l can not understand. And that IS the Fundamentally different attitude of the Americans toward the socialists in their own country and toward the socialists in Germany. When speak here of socialists or socialism reter to the leaders and the false doctrine which they represent, not to the mass of their unreflecting adherents who, while they follow their leaders blind lv. nevertheless often have in the las analysis, a patriotic heart, as the attitude of the laborin6 masses demonstrated during the World war.
 You apply to different standards 10 socialism, according to Whether ls exists in Germany or in America, and you do this in a highly striking ana indefensible manner. For red inter" nationalisnl-and that Is the main thing in the socialists doctrine-is either reprehensible everywhere ana patriotism and love of fatherland are praiseworthy everywhere, or else the opposite is the case. I am unable to understand how the Americans can say in effect:
 eve treasure patriotism above everything, but you Germans must not cherish it for yourselves; we de- spise the red internationalists, but you must love them"
 Don't Realize It, He Says.
 And yet this seems to me to be precisely the attitude of most Amer jeans, although they are probaoly not at all conscious of it. On one page of your newspapers one flnds strong ly played up articles by German so- cialists and also eulogies ef these men whose symbol is the red flag and who regard patriotism as an obsolete and harmful dogma; on the next page one finds reports apout oxpulsions of socialists from Anel = ca, about criminal prosecutions against others, about organizations formed to combat the Reds.
 few months ago the American Secretary of Wa made a sharp at- tack on the American pacifists. yet few Germans are so cften ana so approvingly quoted Tn the American nress as the extreme German pa cifists such as Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Helmuth von Gerlach and Maximilian Harden. l am told that Harden's articles are cabled to America weekly and appear In 50 or more leading newspapers.
 And here are some extracts rom one of these articles
 "A land which swore in Decem- Der that it could not breathe With out a four-year moratorium, put which could spend S,000,000,000 gold marks in the next nine months for a frivolous defensive struggle, has no right to demand confidence.
 "The German government would act unwisely if it should reject the demand for international control as an invasion of its sovereignty.
 "Germany's technical apparatus in land and municipal economic re- sources is intact"
 7@I shudder with nausea as write this. Would you feel different If you were in my place? Yet you have just read these quotations with sat- isfaction.
 But if the Pacifists in America are reprehensible, how can the pa cifists of Germany be praiseworthy men?
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 Cities Anti sIilitaristic Record.
 Strongly bourgeois (non- socialisD Journalists visit Germany and regu- larly secure a great part of their information and wisdom from social- ist sources What would you Ameri- cans say if European journalists should manly turn to Eugene Debs and Upton Sinclair in order to learn the truth about American condi-- tions?
 Or do vol perhaps believe that the German socialists are mo-e pa triotic and less international than 4I,o ApoAricap SoefalistSo Precisely