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Show BEGIN TO REALIZE SCOPE OF BLUNDER j j Politically Interested People In Ger-! many Denounce Mexican Plotting in Harsh Terms. BERLIN. March 10. Political and other interested circles are just beginning begin-ning to get the full flavor of the Mexican Mexi-can alliance disclosures and perhaps a dawning realization of the enormity of the blunder committed, to put it mildly. From all kinds and conditions of Germane Ger-mane there are the strongest German adjectives, such as are translatable by "damned, stupid, idiotic," applied to this political bomb, but in most caecs of scratching beneath the surface the harsh, even damning, criticism is directed, di-rected, not at the thing itself, but at the "getting caught with the goods," getting get-ting found out at pulling diplomatic wires to Mexico and Japan so naively as to give the whole business away. The German people will want to know how such a thing was possible, and so will the reiehstag. It is significant that no official denial of any reported feature fea-ture of the overseas alliance has been forthcoming, and that no additional explanatory ex-planatory or mitigating official statement state-ment is available. Dr. Zimmermann's eloquent pen has left nothing more to bp said, added or explained away. Many level-beaded Germans regard j the proposed alliance against America as a master stroke of political-military strategy and censure only the fact of : its leading out. It is accordingly stoutly defended and justified by a large section of the German press, particularly those organs which had always championed unlimited submarine warfare regardless of the consequences, including conflict with America. On the other hand, one finds a more sober and moderate view very reticently expressed in Socialist-Democratic quarters. quar-ters. Even to some Germans the proposition propo-sition seems so naive on the surface that they are forced to wonder whether there may not be an antecedent inside history to it, and whether the imperial government had any tangiblo reasons for believing the alliance offer would be favorably fa-vorably received; in other words, whether wheth-er it really represents only the first discreet dis-creet diplomatic feeler. |