Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-05
All Lost, Kaiser Says Amer
leans Declare Cause of
Democracy Was Strength
ened by Lesson

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. IA SYM
postum on What Did the World
Gain by the World WARP is publish
ed today by the American Legion
weekly. The majority of the re-
plies, many of them from famous
Americans, agree there were gains,
though some deny any.
The first person quoted, the for
mer kaiser's secretary, Admiral II.
Won MISUNDERSTANDING said:
What did the world gain? Moth
ing. 1t lost everything"
This answer" said the article,
twas in reply to q letter to will
liam Hohenzollern, ESD" in Hol-
land. 1t is taken to represent very
closely the real views of the former
emperor.
"The symposium was prepared to
feature the tenth anniversary Of the
beginning Of the World war.
"Friedrich Wilhelm. former crown
prince, says:
1.-The result was that all nations
are arming as hard as they can, and
what about democracy? Just look
at the cables from over the whole
world. Dictatorship of some sort or
other is the favorite idea. The only
good the war did Is to show that
nation, not well armed, is powerless,
and that such a nation gets no help
from anybody"
Baker Sees Benefits
Taking the long view. I believe, :"
Newton D. Baker said: ut is
possible now to say that the
world is at last convinced that the
balance of power theory is an un-
stable basis for world peace and that
international cooperation is the only
other plan to be tried. This is d
great gain"
General John T. Pershing said:
while we are probably too close
to the events Of the World war deti'
nitely to judge of its general bene,
fits to mankind, yet the victory dlo
result in preventing domination by
autocracy, with all it's disastrous et.
fects upon civilization, and the evil
dence is clear that the free peoples
of the world still unite in resisting
such domination"
Sir Arthur w. Currie, commander
in-chief of the Canadian Expedition
arv forces: "By the World war we
gained a truer appreciation and
better realization of wars unspeak-
able waste, it's dreadful hardships,
it's cruel slaughter and its after.
math of lonliness, sorrow and
broken hearts. We now know that
as a means Of solving the world s
problems and removing international
discord war is a delusion and lie"
General Henry T. Allen, command
ing general of the American army
of occupatio 1.-THE world has seen
that the mipious creeds that might
makes right, and that the state as
the incarnation Of power STANDS
above law, have been overthrown.
The world has learned much more
of the inter-dependence of states. 1t
has learned that Europe cannot pro-
coed properly along the road of
moral and physical restoration with
out our participation in the great
unsettled post-bellum measures"
World Learns Lesson
American Soldier Number 1,000,-
900, who served in the ranks
throughout the war, and is now a
staff sergeant: Although we cannot
claim that, as a result of the World
war, the world has been made safe
for democracy it is apparent that
the American principle that gov
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed,
has been, for the first time, inn
pressed upon European minds"
Sir Phillip Gibbs, British war cor
respondent: THE only gain to hui
manity from the World war, as far
as [ can see now, was the insipra-
ton that comes from the supreme
valor of youth and its ready sacri
flee for ideals higher tn self-in
terest."
William Allen White, Kansas edi-
tor: The gain came in self-respect
for the working man and the man
of small means and his woman folks.
And it cut through nationalities with
out respect to allies or central pow
ers. In that much democracy has
| gained and will never so back"
Maximilian Harden. German editor
and publicist: The certainty that
war has lost its last glowing charm
of romantic chiVairy of knighthood,
that it has lost the manly nobility
| of a fight to be decided by personal
valor, and has become an endless