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Show 'GERMAN PERIL' JEERED BY DELBRUCK Historian Answers 'Tiger,' Saying Charges Are Ridiculous BY MILTON BROXXER. I Service Staff Correspondent-LONDON, Correspondent-LONDON, Dec 9. "If one could believe Franco really would glvo up! j her military preparations on condi- J tlon and England guaranteed her .rK safety, I, rs a vtk)V German, would j sV ra urge tho Unite, 1 HmL States to enter-into ' gffitiiESy -u. h an agreemfnt 3f 'wp tEClM "X can assure j. Tfc3 America it would' TffiHw ' ' r-n tho sllght- .Jiyiffi risk of being sl4?J. ' s" sSIrtUngl l wjUfojjMD 1 irks come VC irtan. In an, M today Delbruck DELBRUCK seeking to set at naught the anti-German statements broadcasted in American by Georges) Clemenceau. declared that an attack by war-weakened Germany on pow-I pow-I erful France Is ridiculous. That Ludendorff. far from being I a skilled strategist, is a bungler. "French fiftauces aro weak. true."i I Delbruck said, "but France besides maintaining an army almost as great! I as beforo the war. building a vast 1 ', lleet of submarines and casting quan-1 1 titles ot cannon that could shoot; I across tho channel to London, also Is paying part of the bills of the, Polish and Czech armies which men-ace men-ace Germany. "The distress in which Germans! live today can bo appreciated when one realizes one dollar today buys 7000 marks Instead of a little mora than four marks, as In normal times.' "To get out of its Industrial misery. mis-ery. Germany mus1 have international credit. French policy makes credit ImpoBSiblQ And the huge cost of tho French army of occupation de-1 stroys the remaining cnpital with which Germany miphf aid Itself. "Hence all Germans blame Franco for our present misery and hatred of France Is ever growing. "But a war of revenge Is impossible. impos-sible. Germany has no weapons, no war material factories, no money. Most Germans want only to llvo In pence. "It's true General Ludendorff has a party that talks of a war of revenge. re-venge. But Ludendorff. Instead 'of I being a great .strategist, waB the' principal cause, through his Inability ' of Germany's losing the war." |