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Show Si REPLIES 10 BE1MLLWE6 Calls Chancellor 'Tine Old Fellov," but Says He Misconstrues Mis-construes Article. HAMILTON, Mont., Sept. 1. James VV. Gerard, former American ambassador ambassa-dor to Germany, who is visiting at the Daly ranch, near here, took issue today to-day with Dr. von Buthmann-Hollweg, the former German imperial chancellor. chancel-lor. .Mr. Gerard issued a statement in which lie contradicted the declaration of the former chancellor that Gerard i had 'drawn on his imagination in the publication of his memoirs. "Dr. von Bet hmann-H ol Iwcg, ' 1 said : M r. Gerard, 1 apparently has not had : the exact copy of my articles, for if he 1 had read them he would have seen clearly that. 1 said the peace terms described de-scribed were the German peace terms 1 and not the opinions of the chancellor. wish to say that Dr. Hollweg said he himself was always subject to the rule of the military party of Germany and could not follow his own desires. "In the second place, Dr. von Beth-mairn-ITollwpg admits that the German government intended to exact guarantees guaran-tees from Belgium and makes the admission ad-mission himself i n trie interview in which he so sharply criticized me. "Thirdly, 1 wish to say if those terms as cited are not the German peace terms, then what are the German Ger-man peace terms? "Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg gives nothing different from these, and so it -might be assumed they are the German Ger-man terms after all. I consider it a matter of great regret that the German Ger-man government put Dr. von Hollweg out of office, and 1 feel that personally personal-ly he is bitterly opposed to the ruthless ruth-less submarine warfare of the German government and that he only refrained from resigning his office out of deference defer-ence to the wishes of Emperor William. Wil-liam. "I presume he "was put out because his ideals are too liberal for the German Ger-man authorities to endure. This liberality liber-ality is shown in the interview. , I am sorry to take issue with Dr. Hollweg on this subject, because I have a great admiration for him and I think he is a fine old fellow. "As to the ethics of my articles, all T wish to say to that is that old-time diplomacy which Dr. Hollweg advocates advo-cates has succeeded in plunging almost the whole -world into the bloodiest war ! of history. When the people of a na-; na-; tion know what is going on in the 'seats of government such wars cannot f happen. . "1 do not believe in back-stair di-! di-! plomacy any more than Dr. Hollweg believes be-lieves apparently in what he is pleased to call shirt-sleeve diplomacy. I believe be-lieve the people of a nation are entitled to know what is going on. This German Ger-man diplomacy may be all right in a monarchy of the most absolute type, but it will not go at all in a modern democracy. ' ' |