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Show WILL SWALLOW POTION. Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, need have no misgivings on the score of the outcome of the peace treaty now being prepared in Paris. The count is reported re-ported as indulging in the fear that the somewhat drastic terms laid down, by the powers as a condition for supplying Germany with foodstuffs will have an adverse effect on public opinion in his country which may force the Hun envoys en-voys to refuse to sign the treaty. The former ambassador hints that, having refused to assent to the treaty, the Hun delegates will adopt a "policy of passive resistance to the allies." On ihe heels of this statement come demands de-mands from several German newspapers that the treaty by rejected as "impossible" "impossi-ble" and "outrageous." All this is interesting, but not necessarily neces-sarily alarming. Germany is a defrjated country and it will accept the conditions laid down by the nations which wrested victory from her on the battlefields. Announcement from semiofficial sources in Paris is that when the German plenipotentiaries pleni-potentiaries reach Paris to learn the precise conditions for the termination of the war, they will not be permitted to discuss the terms. The treaty will be put before them and they must either accept the terms and sign or a state of war will continue. Haggling for better terms will not be permitted. The heathen may rage and the German Ger-man people imagine a vain thing, but the treaty will be signed. In view of the internal conditions in Germany, the risk of exposing that nation to a still graver risk and more drastic measures will suffice to determine action to the liking of the allies. The probabilities are that the Teutons will do all their clamorous objecting before the commissioners commis-sioners of Germany set out for Paris to swallow the medicine being mixed by the political apothecaries of the allied al-lied powers. The dose may be nanseous, but it will be gulped down. I |