| Show TRUCE REFUSAL PIQUES RERUN BERLIN Germans Lay Responsibility For New Troubles Upon France BIRLI BI BERLIN ALIN Jan By 2 2 By The Aso- Aso cI elated ted Press Chancellor Chancellor Cunos Cuno's announcement of the tho rejection b by France of his bis offer of an war anti anti Pact act brought considerable commett Monday from official circles which howe er confined themselves to the question of Germanys Germans moth motives JS In making the offer after The Tho world should now be coo con con convinced vinced harbors they say Bay that Germany har bar bors hors no Ideas of revenge re and that silo shu Is truly a a democracy being content to levee leave the decision of war or ed lied to I a a popular referendum aa as li In the proposed pact considers Whether u ther the government gO consid panas ers rejection of the 1 pan In as final and as disposing of t r irin efforts In this direction cllon could not ue oe adduced from informal inquiries and J were ere sere apparently awaiting alting the tha reaction to Herr Kerr Cunos Cuno's an- an an announcement IARY EART OP OJ CbS ATT The French attitude Is viewed hi 1 r some quarters In Berlin as being prompted sucna sucha by the com conviction that such I a pact would woul l definitely restrict Frances France's freedom of action In con con- con connection with reparations because it could present pre ent her from Imposing physical sanctions or Invading In fresh fresi fres German f territory 1 11 the In proposing uL this flits truce to L franc the Cuno government t was W speaking for tor the German pe ped to e as a a whole said a leading foreign office official The German gO government he added aaa as weary eary of the Incessant aspersions on Its Integrity and desired to gl give e tangible proof of the sentiments ot of the German people and IncidentallY afford an opportunity for reciprocal expression by proposing proposing- a joint pledge ot of good faith to France and the other r po ers Interested In the Rhine Rhino RIDICULES rEARS n RS Alluding to what he called the ab- ab absurd ab surd and preposterous idea that thai the me reactionary element Ip in Germany was arming tor for an Invasion of Prance this official declared that such charges suggested the suspicion that they were inspired to keep alive elsewhere I We W hose have no army and and no navy na lb Ibs said sald ald Does any sane man sup sup- suppose suppose suppose pose we could e even den cn prepare for mod mod- modern modern modern ern warfare with our currency s tem tent system wrecked almost repair our exchequer pretty well ell our credit cr shattered and with alth an in- in In economic and food situation that faces collapse It If any further evidence were need need- needed needed needed ed to dispel euch martial visions a 11 plebiscite would swiftly prove prose thel the I German attitude toward war ar for the next decade I CAREFULLY PLANNED PL ED Supplementing Chancellor Cunos Cuno's Cuno statement of ot Su da it teas Mas declared that the German plan should be un- un understood understood understood as providing prodding pro a truce for J a period of from 45 5 to CO GO years ears and not bythe for the Indefinite time indicated b by the word generation Although no n further official Information was forth fort forthcoming coming coming the th Impression prevails pre that Herr action action- was carefully planned In la advance and nd that he ov ev lQ n apprised the Washington go of his proposed pact It Is also gen gen- generally generally assumed that the United States would have hava been de designated as the custodian of the war non-war pledge in inthe inthe lithe the event of ot its ts ratification |
