Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-03

The overwhelming defeat Of the Ger
man monarchistS in the vote on the
Young plan is accepted in America as
evidence of the stability and RESPONSE
btlity Of the Reich among the worlds
republics.
1.-The essence Of the liberty law"
says the Atlanta Journal, was that the
government should undertake no further
financial obligations resting upon an
assumption of German responsibility for
the World War. This would mean that
no agreement on future reparations
could be entered into unless the allies
formally absolved Germany from war
guilt; and ministers of the Reich who.
signed pact on any other basis would
thereby become liable to prosecution for
high treason. The unreaSonablenesS and
the cunning Of this proposal lay In the
fact that 1t linked the urgent question
Of PREPARATIONS with the moot issue of
responsibility for the war" The Jour-
nal points out that the measure was
defeated overwhelmingly on the final
test"
Summarizing the situation, the Lin
coin State Journal remarks that Ger
many is probably not entirely satisfied
with the Young plan, nor are the allies,
just as neither France nor the United
States was entirely satisfied with the
debt agreement. But the plan is the
most satisfactory likely to be arranged
for years, and it is time that some set
Element be made, so that compromises
on both sides are in order"
THE German people must have
caught the tenor of the Nationalist
propaganda that by q stiff resistance
they could free themselves of the
Young plans obligations" suggests the
Baltimore Sun, with the added state
ment THAT they did not support this
wild doctrine, even though it expressed
their inner desire, is evidence of their
mental stability, and augurS we'll for
the maintenance of foreign negotia-
tions with Germany on a reasonable
basis beyound the reach of extreme
emotionalism." The Lynchburg Ad-
vance concludes that, fortunately, the
German people are not willing to sacri-
flee national prosperity in order to
strengthen political groups which hate
the republic" The Advance holds that
the German people are not going to
be led astray by group of politicians
who are attempting by every means to
overthrow the republic"
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Hugenberg, whose bill was defeated,
has already been forced" in the opin-
ion Of the Salt Lake DeSeret News, Ito
recognize that his agitation against the
Young plan has proved less damaging
to the plan than to his own following"
and that paper thinks that ito the
humiliation of defeat were added the
ridicule and contempt attached to a
campaign which was regarded as too
nonSensical to be taken seriously" The
Louisville Courier journal observes that
1t has left the reactionary element ma
terially weaker than before the mis-
chievous proposal was launched"
THE supporters of the government"
records the Pittsburgh PoSt-Gazette,
noting that they accepted the Young
plan as the best possible under the cir
cumstances, showed their position
principally by abstaining from the vote,
treating with contempt the forces that
brought about the referendum.
1t confirms the belief that the German
Republic has passed the stage where 1t
needs to have much fear of the reac-
tionary monarchiStS. At the same time,
of course, 1t is a tribute to the merit
OF the revised separations plan"
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"As q majority of the $4,000, 900
electors would have been necessary to
override the Reichstag," states the
Richmond News-Leader. 1.-The National
lists failed by 15,3O0,OOO votes" The
NewS-Leader adds, Unless Germany
runs counter to the experience in
France after 1870. the Nationalist cause
will decline steadily" The Birmingham
News declares, After IL years of Ma
tionalist outbreaks like this latest one,
Germans ask nothing better than to be
free of this grandStand performance
and be allowed to get down to the bust |
ness Of practical living"
Obviously" according to the New |
York Times, sit is now the settled be- |
lief Of the German people that II |
are ever again to be re- |
med ana kss mega1 TsgAtct Agatnst