Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
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Harden Says Moral Fervol
Evoked by French Court
Is Remarkable.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost Publicfst.

By Cable to The Star.
BERLIN, May 19.-The wave of in
dfgnation which followed the Krupp
sentences increases rather than sub
sides. There never has been more
talking done in Germany about honor
and shafe, dignity and disgrace OF
the courts than in the last week.
This, too, despite the fact that Ger
many is the very land where 1t always
has been declared all honor and
justice abides.
The moral fervor evoked by the
French sentences is remarkable when
1t is recalled there long has been no
genuine krupp at the head OF the
great works, the male line having
been extinguished in the third gen
Grafton when Alfred krupp sent
bullet into his head because Kaiser
Wilhelm, with characteristic precipi-
fancy and without proof, accused MIN
of hono-sexual crimes. And krupp
also held the foolish notion that
honor was something that could De
given or taken away by another per
son, like titles, decorations or otner
Gew-gaws.
Suicide Concealed.
Naturally, the suicide was conceal
ed and rumors thereof contradicted
by the physicians. The kaiser made
a thunderoos Grafton at the grave
declaring that only by fellows with
out fatherland had Krupp honor
been attacked. So we lived III lSoo
and so we live in 1928.
The twenty three year old daughter
of the then richest man IN Europe
was married by the kaiser 10 MS
protege, Herr Won Bohlen und Hal
bach, a Prussian nobleman who be-
a. ly a Student
at Bohm and had been trained 10
elegant beer drinking and student
duels. He received the imperial title
of ambassador and was permitted TO
assume the name of Krupp Won Bon
len und Halbach. thus becoming head
of the house whose entire capital
stock belonged to the Krupp family
and cannot be bought on the bourse.
Interest Is Keen.
In this position it must be admitted
he has conducted himself like a
gentleman and has shown warm in
tereSt for the business. 1t is lmpos-
sible to say whether this interest has
been continued since Herr Wiedfeldt
was taken from the craftsmanship of
the Essen directors-his place never
has been filled-and sent to Washing
ton as ambassador. The newspaper
reports of the French court-martial
do not implicate Won Bohlen seriously
in any acts of sabotage. While the
verdict and sentence causes anger
it must be remembered that this Is
only the court OF first instance and
that the appellate court can revise
or reverse the verdict for which, after
all, neither the French people nor
government were responsible.
Both the French people and gov
eminent. nevertheless, have been at
tackled by the people and the high
German officials. Yet nobody needs
Ii; ~ atrn he
way in martyrdom as did all those
poor devils who were sent TO jail by
the German government because they
permitted themselves to be led into
illegal acts by their belief that there
had been a German revolution.
Instead of their attacks on the
French along lines which seriously
hamper diplomatic intercourse. the
men responsible for German policies
should ask themselves whether they
haven't enormously damaged German
honor by bringing on the country
within a single week the four notes
of Poincare, Curzon. Mussolini and
Theunis all of whom declare Ger
manys PREPARATIONS offer dishonest,
inadequate, undiscussible and i'm
proper.
Every clear political head should
have foreseen the character of these
notes. Everything done by the Cuno
cabinet has been damaging and obi
GUS anu sui less pardonabIe than the
war crimes of that militaristic firm,
Ludendorf and Company. The real
sinner against Germany's honor is
he who led his country SO far from
the right path so that 1t cannot real
ize il would breathe a sigh Of relief
if il could obtain withdrawal of all
of the strong French garrisons in
the Ruhr ~ surrendering active and
passive resistance. The present at
tempt to throw the blame on others
is merely the old trick of crying stop
thief