Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-29 | Page 41 | Gemans Move toward Ballot on 'War' Guilt

MOVE MOVEr r WA J I WAR GUILT GUill r gr tp Bitter Ca Campaign CampaignS S of f Words Words' Nearing Nearing Near Near- ing En End ERtIN N s Sept pt 28 8 AP Arter V the lbs of or pro pO and Anti propaganda a. d definite at step Il toward a aed plebiscite in Germany on and the he question tt sr Sr guilt guilt's V jj i pUn plan was WU token taken n today when submitted to the Ill was formally Interior by leaders isle or of the th Helmet t organization tie which J 15 1 a a abill bill for tr plebiscite against l the e eI I nt t of qt the tho German people wa was Alfred Hugenberg JD by Industrial magnate and leader and l Franz ranz en genberg erg and md signed l th thu the theas theas as u official representatives hell of the national plebiscite cite el J 1 Helmets Helmet's and German Geaman nationalist y 1 1 Jn In addition J signatures re attached h he bill bUI Is IsAS fa as follows POWERS P 1 i The German government 11 notify all foreign po powers pors rs Im- Im and solemnly that the he weed acknowledgment of or the tite guilt runt In the of Versailles contrary to historical truth hied is hi ed on false premises and nd Is Ss not IngIn lag Ins l In International 1 law a 2 The ho ha German sov government I I use all ende endeavors vors to tOV secure secure annulment of the tile war guilt n nt contained In artl- artl JU and articles and of V treaty of at Versailles It It- shall shan to secure the Imme t te and u evacuation the occupied German territories le Y control com corn ri independently of or orth th the ac- ac t o or r th tim the r rejection of or The Tho trUc convention m t U No f further f rUe financial Jr b bur lens J or or- obligations ba based e l on the guilt acknowledgment shall lI be beum gunned um Inclusive of or those thos arising ram m the rec recommendations of ot the theIs theIs Iris Is reparations ns experts 4 Chancellor and ministers or of oC the reich who tad their signatures to to agreements to the provisions of or para- para V ph phi 3 shall render themselves bit bt to prosecution pros for or high treason i. i 5 S I law w enters n ers Into Inta force at atIlia Ilia moment of ot Its proclamation EMBARRASSING In I government o nt circles the nation nation- illat move Is declared de to to b be highly inopportune and embarrass embarrassing n for taU falls is if lithe the plebiscite bill falls which V regarded U as a foregone conclusion conclusion- permit German Germanys Germany's former foes toes to infer lafer that thai the German ermal people d do donot donot not not wish IA the war ar guilt stain to be bc removed It t is contended that c could be farther from the truth but I it Wi i is sheer folly It Is Ss dewed de derived de- de wed rived in these thu quarters to threaten threat n governments government's accredited representatives with prosecution for high treason won for accepting the Young plan therewith there the liberation of f the as an Important nt step In a forward direction rAg MI M for the practical side of the Ut t tho o fate tate of Ute the nationalist Mil tw l' l hinges on on the improbable improbable- con contingency nency that third one of oC the of 91 members can canti ti bi found to vote for tor ah helvi shelving g the of ot the the- Young plan Ten Kren m then signatures of ot t l clors would be needed n to hold I. I while signa- signa t would be needed if It th the fleece fleece- jr cne cm vote in Sn the Mould be unobtainable liBut Bat when It came to the Me rte Itself no no one ont h here re imagines that Germans one halt el ef the electorate could 1 be induced w register t their ass assent nt to the na na- demand