Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-03 | Page 4 | Will the Germans be Made Slaves?

mum uu WILL THE GERMANS BE MADE SLAVES? Word comes from Berlin thai the government has declared the Paris decisions on the reparations as impossible im-possible of acceptance even as a basis of negotiations. Karl von Wlegand, the correspond ent who is on the scene, makes this observation Despite their many bitter experiences exper-iences and disappointment s. and their almost hopeless Inferiority LbbbbI IH ! Ja 1 L in political skill and very keen , tactics whenever matched within conference with the allied statesmen, states-men, German parties still have an almost childlike faith in the mag- mwM rSJlitff ic of the word ' negotiation A.I-though A.I-though allied ears have remained deaf to German arguments and the official allied mind has been Lm unimpressed by the German an- swers and counter proposals in the past, even the enormous de mands of the allies in their latest note have not disturbed the belief kM ' in the phlegmatic official German mind thai Tails and London v Rl I be amenable to German reason The German statesmen are at a dls-advantage. dls-advantage. If the allies are resolved on exacting the 32fi.000.000.000 gold marks of reparaion. no protesting by the cabinet of President Ebert will change the situation. Allied troops are on the Rhine and mm are in position to make a further pmr- t ration of Germany from the different bridgeheads which afe twenty mile" or more beyond the river Th- soldiers of England, France and Italy . as they move forward, will bring to the Qr mans In the very heart of Germany, a realization that they are endangering not a part of their sovereignty but all their liberties and are, in fact, uniting a slavery that does not now exist and is not threatened in the reparations The proper answer lo the allies, and one which will be listened to. Is un Iralstakablf proof that Germany canno1 pay the debt iuflicted by the judgimn: nf the council of the allies, without destroying the future of the ;enuan people, civilization cannot afford to weigh', the Germans down to the ex tfnt of lowering their social and in dustrlal status in world activities.