Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-28 | Page 18 | Newspaper Writer Scores Ludendorff

NEWSPAPER WRITER SCORES LUDENDORFF Says Former Chief of the German General Staff Was More Urgent Than Xerxes. BERLIN, Dec. 27. (By the Associated Press.) Theodore Wolff, writing in the Tageblatt, compares General Ludendorff, formerly chief of the German general staff, with Xerxes, "who, after the destruction de-struction of his fleet, ordered the sea to be whipped." "It does not indicate much strength of soul," he continues, "when Ludendorff repeatedly seeks to make the people responsible re-sponsible for the revolution, which was occasioned only by military failures. 'He is considerably more unjust than Xerxes. "The Americans, whom he ridiculed, came, and the tanks that he had made fun of arrived also. On June 6 the announcement an-nouncement was made to the German people that the 'proud maneuver army of the entente as such exists no longer,' and five days later came the 'dissolution and complete destruction of the Foch maneuver army.' "Yet, all of a sudden, as four years before, be-fore, the German army had ventured too far, the maneuver army was there. The German troops had to give, and in the deception which followed so many lying claims, in the bitterness at the murderous murder-ous mistakes, and in the recognition that with the ridiculed entry of America, Germany's Ger-many's fate was sealed, a four-year-old courage collapsed."