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H N Kaiser Kai Didn't t Han Hang g Will Adolf AdolfI but 1918 giS peas as Lucky kY I SCOTT WATSON rIO bID Union Newspaper bY y Western surrender surrender sur sur- UNCONDITIONAL M I I render is iS the watchword watchword watch watch- of the Allies I word that has been after Axis lead- lead At the t about the world who ibo bo plunged tar ar will be placed upon for the crimes against I ty which they and have committo commit- commit followers promise of Pres Pres- to ch is the and Prime Roosevelt f f I ter Churchill and it is that there will be likely l ly to that program I 1 Joseph Stalin and Gen Gen- Chiang Kai 0 y if the people of Po Po- Hol- Hol Hold Holf France Belgium d I Norway Denmark f and Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia e e lir anything to say about it Mussolini Hirohito tIer r international their heir fellow Hers will not escape pun pun- did Kaiser Wila Wile Wil- Wil Ii nt as quarter o of a century e a g b la 1917 18 hang the kaiser ta Allied the slogan in tj popular after the German Germani d. d y J even i had bad abdicated and found in in Holland That slogan f d continue Prime Minister British in in the eorge power s of November 1918 and that that mise miS in it might be made IT iwas ins i 3 indicated ditl by Article o of Treaty of ot Versailles which wa wad was months later Tin The td td d a few de said a. a The lie Allied and Associated ers publicly arraign Wil- Wil Wilc c m II of or former- former Icerman emperor for suene surae su- su rae Ireme offenses against ie iSil tl l morality and the sanctity If treaties The Allied and sedated Powers will address I request to the government of i Netherlands for the i r to them of the ex emperor order that be he may be put on onn n tl 11 l. l l it was proposed that a nal consisting of five judges each ach from the United States eat t Britain France Italy am an ami and to serve i should be organized a court of justice for the arch arch- sal nal and in January 1920 a am made Hoi Hal m d ii 1 demand was upon for his surrender But imme y the plan struck a snag Fo For hitch bitch government announce announced th the thet It it it ft was not a signatory to t tilles illes treaty therefore nc ncI not d I by its terms and moreover I honor forbade the suiT susI sui sus T I of ot the royal refugee pressing the fear that the kai ka kai kai- night flee from Holland th thI the led I governments repeated the their nd and But Queen Wilhelmina an and announced that thi this was groundless since by roya royal face e the kaiser would be restrict restrict- of Utrecht d 10 i a certain section to leave it Warning il l lutch government that the re re- re ib is now that of ot the Nellil Neth Nelli- l ds the Allies left the matte matter u and so the Prussian war lord id d to his wood-chopping wood a aa at rn a where he lived to see a an ian painter house-painter revive his ol oln oln old eam n of world domination and Gei Ger- f 4 14 Napoleon at St. St Helena ic r i k t tp p t. t v 7 L ii 4 I r vI L Von Yon and Von Yon Ludendorf Ludendorf Their Their names headed the list of German jerman war criminals of 1914 man aggression plunge the world into another holocaust The kaiser however was not the only German leader whom the victorious victorious vic vie Allies had marked for tor pun Another article in the Versailles Versailles Versailles Ver Ver- sailles treaty stipulated that the German government recognizes the right of the Allied powers to bring before military tribunals tribuna s persons accused accused accused ac ac- ac- ac of having committed acts in violation of the laws and customs of war The German government govern govern- government ment shall hand over to the Allied powers all persons accused of ot such offenses A list of names which included in in- eluded almost all of ot the military and political leaders of at Germany during the war was prepared in accordance accordance accordance accord accord- ance with this article The publication publication tion of at this list which was headed by the names of Field Marshal Von Hindenburg and General stirred up a violent protest among the people of Germany and the new rulers of that country pleaded with the Allies not to force them to hand r 5 wry 4 i L a 1 1 VA KAISER WILHELM I II H Hover over these war criminals declaring that it would mean the overthrow of the government and the resultant chaos Farcical Trials In response to this plea the Allied governments cut the list down to 45 persons and permitted the Germans to conduct the trials The result conclusion The was a foregone Germans stalled as long as possible on the matter and it was not until three years after the war ended that thata a court in Leipzig went through the All of motions of ot staging a trial the war criminals were freed treed either cither because their innocence was proved or because their misdeeds were not covered by German law By this time the Allies were no longer allied and public sentiment among their peoples was largely indifferent indifferent in- in indifferent different to the idea of retribution As a climax to the whole farcical fr the outstanding war wr crim prim u elected inal Von Van was president of ot the republic of Germany and the weakness of this hard-bitten hard old warrior as the head of a civil government paved the way for therise the therise therise rise of at Adolf AdoU So the war var criminals section of the Versailles treaty remained as the only dead letter in it until this same made the others dead letter also by tearing up the whole treaty and hurling it in the faces of Germanys Germany's conquerors Will the war var criminals of 1939 get away with willi it the same way that those of 1914 did Will Vill Schick- Schick emulate the kaiser and find sanctuary in some neutral country country country coun coun- try The list of at such possible I havens is small indeed indeed Sweden Sweden Switzerland Portugal Spain and Turkey Turkey and and it is doubtful i if any ol of these would welcome the arch crim inal of all history The present Fas Fas- minded cist-minded government of Argentina Argen Argen- Argentina tina might might might-if if he could get across the Atlantic either cither by U-boat U or air air- remote possibility plane But that is a the Austrian Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- so it looks as though trian painter house has little chance of living to a ripe ripe ripe-if if dishonored old old age in exile Perhaps like Napoleon he would exclaim I prefer death That was what the French dictator said when told that the British government was sending him to the barren rock of ol St. St Helena After Alter his defeat at Wa Wa- I he surrendered to the captain of the British war o Bellero- Bellero phon and threw himself upon the who later later lat lat- mercy of the prince regent er became King George IV Napoleon Napo leon believed that he would be allowed al- al allowed al ai- lowed to settle down in some comfortable com corn little place in England and great was his dismay and indignation indignation indignation tion when he learned that his captors captors captors cap cap- tors had other plans for him A Dictator in Exile I It was then that he declared his preference for death and it is said that Lord Liverpool the British I prime minister was quite willing willingto to accommodate him just as millions mil mu- lions today would be glad to accorn- accorn accommodate he mod ate Adolf if expressed a preference for death to I. I exile or imprisonment However delegates from Great Britain Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia Austria and Prussia who formed the Convention of ot Paris to pass upon Napoleons Napoleon's war guilt overruled over over- overruled ruled the wish of at the British prime minister and the exile to St. St Helena was the result On that cheerless little island in the South Atlantic he spent the next six years as a military military mili mill tary prisoner with the rank of a British British Brit Brit- ish general out of ot employment Under instructions from the British government he was treated as Gen Napoleon Bonaparte not as the emperor emr em em- r of at France One of at the horrors of civil war is the bitterness of feeling between which citizens of the same country frequently transcends tr the bitterness the people of one nation feel toward foreigners with whom they are at war During the Revolution many Patriots had a greater hatred for their former friends and neighbors who were Loyalists or Tories than they had for the British soldiers orthe or orthe orthe the Hessian mercenaries Similarly which began in four years of ot war animosities that 1861 engendered were to linger for generations Southerners hated that If It many ape in the White House there were an equal large number of at Northerners Northerners North North- erners whose favorite favorite favorite fa fa- fa- fa song was a promise to hang Jeff Jef Davis to a sour apple tree jJ to For the North which could admire admire ad ad- adr r f t t 11 mire the military genius of a Lee Leeor Leeor or a Stonewall Jackson apparently apparently apparently Jefferson Davis could not concede that that Jefferson Davis had a single admirable trait So their wrath for all rebels was concen- concen I on the head of ot the president of the Confederacy with After Lees Lee's surrender Davis members of his cabinet fled south and he was captured In Georgia He was imprisoned in Fortress Monroe and subjected to unnecessary indignities indig indigo through the influence of certain certain members of the tain tam revengeful radical wing of the Republican party determined to bring him who were to trial for his war guilt Finally Davis was released after aUer two years with Horace Greeley and other Northerners who had been his bitterest bitterest bitterest bit bit- terest enemies during the war providing providing pro pro- viding his bail ball bond His health and andI broken by his prison experience having the public outcry for revenge effort was died down no further I made to prosecute him I |