Evening star., 1923-04-15
GERMAN OFFICIALS
NOT FAIR, IS CLAIM
MaximiIian Harden, PubIicist,
Declares People Are "Fed
Up on Absurdities."
LACK OF SINCERITY SEEN
Charges Those Who Once Prayed
"God Curse England" Now
Plead for British Safety.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost Publfcist.


BY Cable Dispatch to The Star.
BERLIN, April 1.-THE German
people are being fed up on absurdi-
ties. The governing officials refuse
to be frank. They will not tell the
truth. The inevitable result is mis-
understanding at home. which allows
the present cabinet to drift along.
Their claim that other countries dis
approve the action of France in the
Ruhr because 1T is interfering with
them getting reparations payments
has the effect of stiffening the re-
sistance here.
The same people who only yester-
day prayed God punish England
today are praying that he will save
England, instead of thinking whether
a state with IA deficit of seven thou
sand billions paper currency can af-
ford a vigorous policy to regain lost
prestige The German public is in
toSicated with the calculations of
damages France is supposed to be
suffering through illegal occupation
of our territory and expects a neces-
sary, miracle to eventuate which will
eXtricate them from all of their
troubles.
Have Swapped Heroes.
was a hero in their minds. Today
Lloyd George, only a short time ago
the most bitterly hated of men. has
taken that position as the result Of
his opposition to the French program
voiced in the house of commons and
III his various speeches. But you in
America must not be too hard on d
people who are starved both mental
ly and physically. Should you hear
something completely absurd from
my ,h.~ l,a .iStfr
tons
In this connection here is the dis
covery" of one OF our engineers
named Schuler. (American students
need not remember this name as a
part of historyD He is telling the
world that the Ruhr is the scene of
vast conflict between France and
the United States. The latter. he
says, has discovered that Ciermany's
steel industry since the war has be-
come SO formidable a competitor of
the United States manufacturers that,
should II once obtain the Longwy
basin, the American magnates will be
obliged to turn their whole concern
into film company and emigrate to
the healthy climate of California.
France. he says, is planning to domi-
nate the world markets through the
alliance Of French and German ores
and supplies and the United States is
working to prevent it.
Prophet Schuler sees the only sal
walton for the world in an alliance
whereby Germany. France and Great
Britain would unite with the United
States and complete an economic bar
rier against dollar rule in Europe.
Fails to Comprehend.
This new competitor with the
Partisan clairvoyant obviously has
not the slightest idea of American
efficiency or the might of the United
States tariff laws. He Is wholly un-
able to realize that the German
werker arHT fo who rnr now 81 Is paying $4,000
100 marks for single cigarette or
10000 marks for very moderate
monthly consumption Of gas at
home-is no longer afraid of dollar
schuler ascribes his anti-United
States scheme to Lloyd George,
although it is fully realized that the
demagogy, is not entirely such a fool
as even to dream of making England
solely dependent on continental Eu
rope for trade and raw materials.
] would not trouble you with recit-
ing such silly nonsense were it not
that serious journals of the German
press, whose power in the past has
been potent, give it prominence, and
it has been accepted by millions who
still are in the dark regarding the
political movements of the govern
ment.
Believe War Result of Greed.
For them the war was the result of
business jealousy and political greed.
and was forced on the kaiser and his
peaceful generals despite their fearful
Christian sentiments.
The German. people still allow He'll
ferich and the old impeTialistic lead
ers who promised them that the sub
marines would keep the American
Army at home, to tell them that only
patience is necessary for victory to
lead the constantly growing national
istic party to power, and then to the
restoration of Germany to her proper
place in the world. 1t is because this
is the situation that wild stories can
be circulated and accepted by a peo-
pie who know no better.
Copyright, 1923,