The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-08
Need for Moderation in Germany

Those who have been inclined to sympathize with
Germany the European scapegoat from 1913 to 1892
will be likely to view with some concern the reported
excuses of the ultra patriotic and military elements
in that country-Hitlers demand for dictatorship,
much display of steel helmets, big parades of he
roes and the like.
After fourteen years of unjust and ignominious
treatment of their country, German reactionaries
seem on the verge of spiling the beans just relief
and vindcaton have appeared clearly the horizon.
1t is easy to understand the present antics of Ger
many but that is not to forgive in every respect The
German people deserted their old Hohenzollern and
Junker-Krupp masters in behalf of republic on
count of the promises of the allies led by President
Wilson in this respect.
wilson repeatedly asserted that there was no
on the German people, but that it was war against
their military masters. He implied that if the Ger
man people established republic, this new liberal
would be the special Joy and pride of the
allies, who Solcitousy. would it into healthy
maturity
But this all proved cruel joke. Along the
treaty of Versailles. Although Germany already had
proclaimed republic in good faith she subjected
to the most humilating penalties imposed upon
major state in modern history.
The entente theory was that they were Furnishing
the kaiser and his encourage when adolescent
moron could have discerned that it the German
republic which thus being crushed and Inundated
The Versailles spirit and methods were kept up
more than decade, There the crushing material
burden of reparations. There was the moral stigma
of sole guilt for the World poked down the Ger
man throat with bayonets
There was the inequitable disarmament of Ger
many while her rival across the Rhine built up the
tory of civilized Europe. Germany long was excluded
from the League of Nations and regarded as pariah
and outcast among states of Europe.
The heavy financial burdens helped along unem-
ployment and bankruptcy and enormously reduced
German prosperity.
Never do "the good old days" appear so rosy and
envabe periods of current distress so the Ger
mans naturally looked back to the period of the
pire and the regime of the Hohenzollerns.
Then Germany had been the strongest single
power in Europe She had been proud and prosperous
and happy. Even though defeated in the World war,
it took the rest of the civilized world bring about
her downfall, and then by very narrow margin,
which could be accounted by the stupidity of those
in high command.
Little wonder that about 1925 many Germans be-
gan TO doubt the wisdom of changing to a new order
1t is easy to see why they elected Hindenburg in
1925 and gave much support to Hitler in the last
years. 1t is not certain that such evidence of stiff
fleming back did not help Germany. 1t forced the rest
of the world to face reality in Germany.
At any rate, Germany ultimately has escaped from
most Of the handicsps of the Versailles epoch Nobody
except ignoramus or bigot any longer maintains
her sole guilt for the World war.
Preparations have been all but eliminated. She has
been admitted to the League Of Nations Her occupied
territory has been evacuated She has begun to
get something like a fair break in the news even
though the American press still is preponderantly
Francophile
In short Hitler has become figure of menacing
proportions. just he is no longer necessary-iuSt