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Show IBS SGDRES BEE council ii mm .0T of German Consti-,tion Consti-,tion Says Austrian Reputation Rep-utation Is Harmless. ;cn Would Be of Great Jenefit During the Post-ar Post-ar Period, He Asserts. I V is, T!!-.:r.!ay. S't. M.vUy ,Ah. llu' lu'w l'"'r'. j a ro.'ont'y iCTmulili'.! t :f.. ;1 ji.iti'nu'iit toa.iy It Tl f;i'il T!vs sovori-ly arr.iiinovl ; ...,...,1 r..;uio !'.v tho i':uo i-onnr-I, .vr ii,'rin:ir.y must Hnn'iul tin' ' ,0 irovi'Ut Austrian f v...;3ioa in German par'.iaiuont.iry en-.S'-"' f'f't'" '''' saui' , : no; a qui'Tion i.f law. ;, j. i oiear ami m: (!. The V.,'n ot'.r i.piH'iu'r.is bro.:ht up ci-.!.r hv.s tiiat thoy aro loliuw-r-r,'. il.iurent inirpos than the ; .... it' .ioiibttul ai inostions. b":;::':.!'- 1" 01 ''ie I10"' ''''iau K-Jrua is !ac olauso: "The tn j eA'-v l,t roaoe ?ii;r.il a: Ycr- j sAi i r 't be aiHH'Uvi by this oon-?AA oon-?AA Thi tX-.-iuJt any j-raotu-al . i.r. bi't.nen the ioa't terms and . t;.:::u:i.'a. fer if there should be i:v . :-ier.s ei the ooi:s::t:;t:oa in v :i..ut ot the peaee terms, the w:;i i be valid legally, without - h::..e t.r the eoi:sti:ution to tae irn c ever the treaty. ; itier Inviolate. jti.'O 1. raraph providing ie i :::::?ii a ct Austrian n-embera e r-chstU;;) dees not stand as a il :::..:rauK tion of the pe-aee terms, r. b:i:: revo:iized by the si. the terxs by the allied and aa-ed aa-ed joverurueuts. In the t,iern'.R.n i.- rr'essis to the original peace ;:e .l-rii..r.n government ex-si, ex-si, iz iiisous:n this point, that i:.l no; desire to violate the i Ui frontier, but that if Austria j ;. brin about a state of unity I Grr.anv. xhe latter rould rot ob-h-rivif to oppose the wishes of r'.:r..a brothers in Aust-ia. ' fori v-u the richt of self-determina or ;eo: Irs would count against , ir.v. The allied and assoeiated ii.fr.:5 r.re'y reeotrni'ed in their r that Gern;acy did not want I" to violate t"he Austrian fron-Th:s fron-Th:s :he r-'.'e treaty was sied. e 11 ires not foreioly violate the ar. trortier. L'th-r. if the entente raised seri-b;" seri-b;" :tions to harmless parararh c: article 61, there were plenty :rt::r.:fes to raeh a quiet under-jTfrz under-jTfrz ivith Germany. Instead ol itl r.:':nte chose a most sudden aa-aer to war .1 us and of-r, of-r, ;':-s for which there was no -V! "a-:;-v e purpose beinr; to comiel (leriuany to niter her eoustitu. tion as to immaterial points. I'olii-y Harmful. ''1 lo not bt'lieve in the opinion widely current nuioni; llornmns, that tin' statesmen of the entente and America are filled with aujjer and liale and have allowed themselves to be drawn into a planless and purposcle.s policy. This policy, however, can lime but one thought and plan -to make it impossible t consolidate a democratic republic in Germany. The forvible pretention ot a union of Austria and tlerinanv is a blow in the face for all the solemnly proclaimed principles of the entente. ' ' Materially, tho union of Austria to Germany would mean a seere burden on Germany. Tremendous sacrifices would be necessary ami therefore then-are then-are inanv people in Germany who viewed the plan with hesitation. It would, however, be of reat value and would be of w oiir.ei I ul importance to the yoi.no; Gorman democrat . as it would brine; about a unity which llis-ir.arck's llis-ir.arck's statecraft anil Prussian weapons weap-ons fai!e! to accomplish. "The policy of the entente, therefore, there-fore, can have no conceivable aim other than forcibly to prevent this moral strenijthciuni; of the republic of Germany Ger-many and to add to the strength of its opponents, since it would make it much easier for them to j:ain supporters for their claim that German national unity cannot be brought about in Germany Ger-many except by a military reaction. Blow to Democracy. 'This policy negatives the obvious interests of the allied and associated powers which demand the strengthening and the democratic development of Germany. It was attempted at first to represent the German democratic republic repub-lic as a barefaced deception in order that actions such as were adopted to defeat kaiserism micht be jrs;..iod. It is harder to maintain this fiction the louder the democratic regime lasts. This regime now has concluded a constitution, constitu-tion, the bases of which are pure de n-.oeracy and uniiv. I'mier most tremendous tre-mendous difficulties it has protected the western world as a liatn against bolshevism. It was obvious to cvtv statesman that the Gc-nian republic eannof be forever misrepresented bv a disguised kaiserism. .-o new blows must be delivered. ''J-uch treatment increases the protagonists pro-tagonists of the old syst-ms ;,nd adds to the spirit of revenue in the German p..op!e. .eir.,! t,use for mishandling mishan-dling Germany tnav be i-en in f.iture. The eoal must be Uie destrueti0n 0f German democracy or of Germany itself. it-self. "President Wilson once said that the peace that ended the world war must approximate that made at the congress of Vienna. The Vienna congress believed be-lieved it could by measures of fore" make firmer the so-rMicd legitimacy of the monarchial principle. That was a ' bad mistake, but how licht as a feather j it weighs against the madness of the Versailles peace, on v.hb h, thru h i i : -1 those means, d- iu lera.-v ;u;. inle-iia. tion;iI law wore to be ;i t ' 'i i n...! 1 ''From the niaiiness of :eM,;i A:. erica er-ica has at bast kept its, -if free, but in Vcr-nilles! ' ' |