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Show GERMANS ARE A CONTRADICTION. Arno Dosch, -who was in Belgium as an American correspondent at the outbreak out-break of the war, has arrived in Berlin Ber-lin and Is dally cabling his impressions impres-sions of the situation. In his last message mes-sage he says: I "Conditions of the armistice, the fact that German troops are not permitted to quit France in orderly order-ly fashion and tho general want that afflicts the people have combined com-bined to cause a wavo of resentment resent-ment all over the country, and re-scntiment re-scntiment is expressed by every individual. in-dividual. "Nobody seems to understand that the French are naturally disinclined dis-inclined to make things easy for the army which spent more than .four years as invaders of French soil. The people here resent the plight of tho army with a seriousness serious-ness which, should It grow, will not help the project for a League of Nations. "Opinion seems to be that President Pres-ident Wilson ,to whom Germany made direct appeal, should have spared the army and the country from tho indignities put upon them. German faith In the president presi-dent is almost pathetic. For the moment it has been shaken by his ommission to brush aside the military mili-tary men and assure the army that it might go peacefully home, at its leisure. "Many of the people regard the president as a fairy godfather who can and- will' do everything for them: Whatever move he makes toward raising the food blockade strengthens the common faith in him. Tho quantity of food that may be sent here seems of minor importance, in tho German view, the main thing being that ho tries to send some. "While the food situation is indeed in-deed serious and needs prompt help, the really imperative need, is relief from the strain nnd hysteria hys-teria regarding food. Conditions have become actually panicky, and i the primary remedy should, be psychological." What strange people those Germans are I They inflicted on Franco and Belgium the horrors of the damned, and now they are complaining that they are not accorded courtesies and privileges unheard of. When the American troops were marching east of Treves, in Germany, the people received them sullenly and the children threw stones. What would have happened, if the invading force had been Germans and the stone throwers were Americans? For an answer we can turn to Louvain and Noyon, where the civilians were massacred. mas-sacred. But wo all are pleased to learn that the Americans received the stones thrown by the German children as trivial tri-vial affronts and had no thought whatever what-ever of using the military heel of brutality bru-tality on those deluded people. A contrast is presented, of which Ave are proud. Evidently the Germans are slow in discovering that by their outrages during dur-ing the war, they havo forfeited all right to demand easy terms or any form of leniency on the part of the victorious vic-torious forces |
