The Washington times., 1932-05-12

the country with no apologies Yet the poor and power
less helpless today they were three years ago
and three centuries ago.
Remember Liberty
It would not be easy for the Democratic candidate to
get sixteen million votes because he anxious to de-
fend the rights of sixteen thousand aliens many OF
whom are probably illegally in the United States. Inc
only thing he could do would be to assert his beet IN
that almost forgotten principle called justice He might
even go far to declare his belief in liberty AS
last resort he might say that shall be treated
as a criminal until he had been proved criminal and
that even the guilty shall not be deprived of their rights
Professional Writers ....
This would not, of course, prevent the Democratic
party from using the Wickersham Report the liquor
traffic do not know how sllfu the writers of party
platforms have to be- not sure that Messrs Her
geshemer Cabel and Thornton Wilder would write
better platform than steering committee but there
seems little point in bothering with the social sections
of the platform when Mr.. Hoover's commissions have
so admirably provided them tree
me in Cott und Ich''
Nothing in the birthday interview of the ex-Crown
Prince Illuminating than the way in which
he referred to the Germans my people, On the
Olympic Games and on the general economic problem
Friedrich Wilhelm at the age of SO, is sound and not
particularly interesting 1t is worth noting that ne
spoke of these matters in English but switched to
German when he cried out "That brings me to the
terrible material and spiritual distress of my people
If it slip of the tongue, was not an lnappro-
pirate one Not only the Grown Prince tnnks IN pre- pre-
war TERMS half the misforunes of the world are due
to the kind of thinking.
Orphans of the Storm
The Germans are longer his people and there
must be moments when they think of themselves as
disinherited by all the world, trying hard to believe
that they can be Hndenburgs people or Hitlers, but
knowing that in the end individual stands to
protect them and to take the blame for them I do
not mean the blame for the only that in times of
great unhappiness all want scapegoat
Who's Guilty?
About war guilt the ex-Crown Prince also reveals
strange attitude. His words are, "Claims made about
Germanys guilt for the outbreak of the untrue
and have besides, long been dsproved." What has
guilt; still in question is the matter of Germanys
primary guilt of the revolutionists ranking her
guilt first second to that of France after
that of Russia Austria. But that Germany
guitless has not yet been suggested except by
apologsts.
Our Faulty Bill
It is our own fault that the Germans often think
themselves entirely innocent of bringing on the war
While the battle each side flung the mud of
guilt at the other but after the over, when
we making peace, wrote into the treaty the
lie of Germany's exclusive guilt. CAS- noted few
days ago, Mr.. Lloyd George still the emotional
effects of this accusation although he does not press
it actual intellectual fact) We, who were vic
torious, wanted triumph to be unspoiled by any
share in the except winning it. And the French
knew perfectly we'll that the whole business of repara
tons would have to be justified by condemning the
German people to eternity of guilty conscience Or
at least to sixty years of it.
u Psettng the Eggs
The moment one bit of evidence up to show
whole foundation caved in. AS we had accused
the Germans of partial guilt, they quite naturally and
logically feel that grievance against them is
reasonable. Our eggs-and not the best eggs-were
all in basket and the basket has been overturned
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