Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04
THE WORLD WAR HAS NEVER ENDED


of the problem is stated by DR.. voll.
behr as follows:
Germany has been rubbed the
wrong way, as no nation has ever
been so mistreated since the begin
ming of written history, especially
after the close of a war. Here are
the II points on whose prOmisory
strength Germany laid down her
arms, and which vanished into thin
air when the consequences were
drawn from the Armistice. Then
there is the Versailles Treaty itself
with it's unbelievable stipulations,
its crowning glory being the article
231, which lays the sole guilt for the
outbreak of the war upon Germany's
shoulders for the one reason only to
supply a justification for the out
RACES of the Treaty itself.
"Then after the Treaty we have
the enforcement of the Treaty, and
this chapter makes every one blush,
who has drop of the milk of hui
man Kindness left in his system. II
is not only the madness of the de-
mands-no, it is the perversity of
the enforcement of unenforceable
conditions laid upon a Nation who
trusted i'll the honor of a given
word. The senseless destruction of
property, the senseless oppression
of an already oppressed people, the
welding of knouts and whips
against helpless population, the
letting loose of brutes and many
colored savages from the far cor
ners of the earth upon the people of
Luther, and Kant, and Goethe, are
outrages that will go through his
tory for all times to come.
"All these things were nothing
but a continuation of the War with
other means, even with a blockade
that lasted six months after the Ar
mistice was declared, and which
condemned hundreds of thousands
of children and emaciated women
and old people to the death Of star
walton. What we see now is an
other continuation of the war, this
time with other means, with finan-
cial means, with the golden bullets.
"Is there human being so utter
ly dispossessed of human feelings as
to pass by these horrors after the
war in complacency? 1t would speak
ill toward the human race if it
would stand for such doings.
ut is not the material side alone
that causes despair. it is even more
so the psychological side, and if
there shall ever be peace again it is
absolutely necessary to re-establish |
the psychological equilibrium again,
SO that the German people may
know that they are members of the |
human race.
II have not the slightest interest.
nor the least intention, to stir UP
old memories, as I believe ferVently |
that only by forgetting the terrible
past, and looking toward a better
future, will we find that common
ground on which all must meet, if
that happy event, World peace, is to
be attained But that does not mean /
that the pages of history have been
expunged from the deeds recorded
there. The German people would
not be made of common clay but
would be pure angels from heaven
if they could ever forget, even if
they have forgiven. |
"Of course, there would be every
for digging up the past.
if l have to see with my own eyes
how the insidious propaganda
against Germany is maintained day
after day by a few creatures that
thrive on hatred, and who
nave no other ambition in their
ives than to keep past animosities
llive. There recently appeared in
he Saturday Evening Post, founded
)y no other man than Benjamin
franklin. an article by Mr.. Garet
Jarrett who gave his good literary
lame to diatribe against the Ger