Show BERNHARDI'S NEW BOOK PREDICTS PREDICTS' IG WAR I Human Nature to Cause Other Conflicts German Resurrection Seen By KARL H. H VON WIEGAND Universal Service Staff Correspondent BERLIN Oct 9 9 Germany will rise Again It still has a a. great future Seventy Seventy Seventy Sev Sev- enty million people cannot be permanently permanently permanently perma perma- ground down down cannot cannot be at d into slaves Policies change All too soon noon may come the moment when e we will be needed on o one e or the other side bide and then will come circumstances and conditions favorable to With this General Freiderich Freider- Freider Ich von Bernhardi the famous military writer closed his bis latest book entitled About War of the Future Bernhardi is now 72 73 3 and shaky from the he stroke of apoplexy received In in the fall taU of 1918 when the realization came of ot Germanys Germany's defeat and coll collapse and he started to lead his army corps homeward home home- homeward ward on whom fell the kaisers kaiser's displeasure his writings writings writ writ- ings was attributed much of ot the hatred against Germany was not given an Im Important command in the world war he had so accurately forecast until IS 1518 18 when he commanded a corps in the offensive HUMAN NATURE TURE MAKES WAR Irr In- his new book ridicules the idea that the world has seen its last wars and maintains that as long as human nature is what It is there wIlllie willbe will willbe be lie wars ivars The feature of future wars he declares de declares declares de- de clares will be the he employment of vast masses and the astounding development development develop- develop j I ment and use of technical and mechanical cal means lie He said It will be wars of na nations and not of mere armies annles Bernhardi Bernhardt scores scores the political shortsightedness shortsightedness short short- sightedness of those who directed Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's course and emphasizes the relation between the political poll polI pol pol- I l Icy in time of or war and military leader leader- I ship Not only in foreign affairs but also in our internal politics we Ve miscal miscal- d. Necessary progress was unheeded unheeded un un- un- un he heeded ded a pow power r of or resistance ce was Im- Im the German people which they did not have the revolutionary elements elements elements ele ele- ele- ele ments we underestimated to the last moment We tumbled into the tho war without the political al tion Bismarck would turn in in his grave if he could see the lack of foresight Our policies revealed a a. poverty of f ideas without parallel Economically wo we were equally as thoughtless With not a a. single sin single sin sin- gle thought did we make preparations In that direction for the coming war Not even did we notify In time our ships abroad not to mention that nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing was done to collect s supplies P lies or arrange arrange arrange ar ar- ar- ar range our agriculture accordingly DIDN'T THINK OF AMERICA Further illustrating us the shortsightedness shortsighted shortsighted- ness of the German statesmen Bernhardi Bernhardi Bern Bern- hardi says At the beginning we did not nol even think of America The famous military writer warns against the assumption that politics or policies are within themselves an Independent independent independent inde Inde- pendent power In reality they can at attain attain at- at tain lain nothing if they have no power behind behind be be- hind them which the opposing state has reason to fear Bernhardi Bernhardt takes issue with BI Bismarck marck that preventive war never can be justified Bismarck wrote this in old I age As a matter of fact his actions were a contradiction of that doctrine he says The close of or the w world war says Be Bernhard Bernhardi again h has s proven that mankind in the average is according u i u to his nature Imbued with the Id Idea a of or I his own advantages and does not even think of giving up anything simply be because because be- be I be-I cause It is right and just that he should I do so or that another should enjoy that advantage I The German general disagrees with Pr President Wilsons Wilson's open covenant a I openly arrived at at He says It is an absurd demand that statecraft shall always al always al- al ways play with open cards One might II as well demand that the directing military military mili mili- I tary strategist should always inform I the enemy what operations he is plan pia- ning Bernhardi contends that open diplomacy has its drawbacks because one never can be certain that the op opponent opponent op- op is as honorably open as one OP-I. OP self selI |