The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-28

AS an American newspaper
 correspondent in Berlin from
 1919 to l0lI, BlgFld Schultz saw at first hand the events that led
 from World War I Co World War
 II. And she saw the behind. .thes
 scenes preparation for the com.
 ing "waF.Inspeaee" that she
 warns may cuImlnate in World
 War HI. This is the story Of
 0eFmany's plans to win the
 peace plans that even now are
 being put into effect
 Tho German secret general s.aff under Ludendorff worked with such speed and energy that within less than six months after the German army asked for an arniis stice in 1918, the secret circle had succeeded in the following prepar- ations for It's own rule and for c future war.
 It controlled oil official army offices.
 Tt controlled the unofficial armed veterans of the Free Corps, who were spelling for c fight,
 1t controlled key positions in al universities and government ofs ficos.
 It had induced oermany'S main industrial concerns to prepare with it the planned total war. ft managed to cry murder ct the mention Of BoisheVisTl and ct the same time to work in the diplos matte, military, and economic fields hand in hand with Moscow.
 Anyone who went about Berlin in November of 1918 knows how claiming their rule in Germany. fn the brief period of prerevolu. tionaFy unros in Russia, German agents there had been as thick as FaisinS in Q pudding. They had plenty of money to spend. Russia returned tho compliment in 1918.
 saw Communist agitatorS ha- ranguing tho desperate masses ii tho streets Of Berlin. And the pco' pic had every reason to Do deSs peFatc. They were cold and hun. gry and their soldiers had fought in vain. 1 Baw favenous mob slaughter c starving horse where it fcil, and carry away dripping slabs of meat. saw half.growa rowies attack uniformed officers, and hysterical women try to yank off their FiuStaches or boards. l hurried through the Berlin streets under the croSs fire of Red guns on one side and Republican soldiery on tho other.
 Confronted by famine and inc flation, fighting Communists with tho left hand and reactionaFies with the right, trying to comply with Allied demands and, ct the same time, to stabilize the econ. omy of Q country exhausted, dis Tupted by four years of war, With tho upper classes offering ct tliel. best c passive residence, the Ger. man Republican leaders had every reason to Do Rwed by tnc problems ahead, Tn solving most of them as well as they did, ir oven surviving as long as they dld, the Republicans achieved near" miracle.
 Most Of them realized, even at the beginning, that 1t was fool: hardy to continue in office men oE tho former autocratic imperial regime. But they had no men trained to replace them. So tho old appointecs stayed on: in the judiciary, the judges who inter- prctod the law to the Republics disfavor; In the Reichsbank, the men who intensified and Tnanipu- lated the imitation to their own purpose; in the Finance Ministry; In the War and Navy offices, enemies of the Republic too nu- mcrouS to mention.
 The groups which sincerely - ali that tho Republic stood for had two other things in common. First, they were uppcr.class Germans. The caste system has been breaking down gradually in more recent years, but in 1918 and 1919, It's imprint could be seen wherever one went. Most Of the Republican leaders were men and women of the lower or upper middle classes. Their knowledge of the minds of upper-class Ger mans were limited. That was one reason why they could be fooled by the men supposed to be work ing with them.
 Second, most members of the inimical groups had had access to higher educatoin, which made them part and parcel of the pam 0crmRnic order.
 To Yon- Germans the medieval symbolism of German universities even then seemed old-fashioncd and slightly, ridiculous. But their hold on the national mind had not ioosened, because to Germans they spoke of a Greater Germany. Both tanchaEs and students believed