The Washington times., 1933-07-21


know the offer turned down by Austria Yet the
significance of this event lies in Germany for at the
peace and actually holding back great offensive,
waiting to see what reply she would get to her overures
The Peaceful Kaiser
Here for instance is dispatch from diplomatic Of
ticer of in Switzerland: The German offensive is
being held back by the influence of the KAISER who urges
that the terrible slaughter which must follow should be
withheld he certain that Lloyd George the only per-
son preventing peace, soon will be depOsed The
Pan-Germans exceedingly incensed and have in
formed him that the offensive will not be withehd later
than very early March,"
This is not history as we heard it in 1918. Here
have the Kaiser that old devil actually trying to stop
the war while the military party gives him orders A
week later Minister to Sweden heard that he great
offensive being held in allegiance to what
suit would be obtained from speech of Hertlings affirm
ing that the German government accepted in principle
version of Wilson's peace terms"
IF We Had Lost
We get perspective, judgment these things
unless put ourselves the position of defeated
nation The German offensive which the Kaiser tried
to hold back eventually launched; hundreds of thou
sands of men were killed; the Fifth British army
routed the Germans to victory at that
ment than at any time since 1914 Suppose they had
through Suppose they had dictated the terms of
peace. What would feel if we discovered that
peace negotiated and reasonable could have been made
before the German victory instead of after?
For that matter, how cocky about the peace
we actually dictated? peace without victory for
which America once enthusiastic, would not have
driven Wilhelm from Germany-so would not have
had the German Republic the Kapp pusch the threat of
German communism and the sweet reality of German Hit
lerism We should have saved easily onefourth of the
cost of the war. AS far America is concerned
should have saved most of dead and wounded and
large part of our money.
More Ifs
Austria would not have been dismembered and we
would not have had the Communist and dictatorial
regimes in Hungary; should not have had dead
country rong in the heart of Europe, and possibly we
would have missed the financial failures in Austria which
dragged Engands gold standard into the dust We might
not have had our boom and consequently might not
have had depression.
You can carry these imaginary profits and losses to
any extreme; without facts you can mold history into
any form It is possible for instance that the moment
we made peace with Germany should have Joined
with her in holy against the Bolshevsts. We might
have committed foles greater than those we did
commit. But as we know that Germany was not
the sole instgator of the and that almost good
came out of the safely say that a peace in
February of 1918 could not have been any worse than
the peace we got in November.
, was in England in 1917, when the aging Lord Lans
downe despairng of victory, thinking of the men of
ENGLAND being slaughtered, fearing that stalemate
might continue as had BEFORE for 80 years, pro-
nosed negotiated peace in letter to the London
Times The Times refused to publish the letter The
telegraph q thnk) published it, and the other papers
Kowed that the Telegraph had become the Times waste
downe was perhaps the only statesman in England.