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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 13
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pill UJH; ~ - sackcloth his nart for the infamies of the paM \\'e cannot pluml) the deptlis of the futility of the "peace hy discussion" proj>osals without an understanding of the German peace proposals. In Germany, as elsewhere, there are various croups of "would-be peace makers." There are some in Germany who talk of peace without annexation and would give back to all belligerents the territory which they had at the outbreak of the war, provided Germany he left with a consolidated influence or power over Central Kurope and the Near East. There are those who would restore the Pre-War status in territory and let each belligerent and victim bear its own burden of rehabilitation. A large party demands the increase of German sea-power with seaports on the coast of Belgium and France, and the coal mining districts of the latter. Another demands the realization of the dream of "mittel Europa.if Another adds to this the dream of "Berlin to Bagdad." Others insist on the restoration of a colonial empire, not in the scattered fragments which made up the colonies which she has lost, but in a solid block of territory and people from the East to the West coast of Africa, so that in the years to come Germany could arm millions of black men and, from that vantage point, once more reach out for the domination of the world. There are others who would be content with annexations of Russian territory. Be it noted that some, if not all, of these programs include freedom of the seas—FOR GERMANY—meaning that Germany must have coaling stations and a fleet such that no other power would dare attack her. Then Germany must have a controlling influence in South America, and that continent must be open to her colonists to live in and keep up their duty to their home country. To the Pan-Germans who look westward, the enemy has been Great Britain. To those who look eastward, the great enemy was Russia. To both, the great enemy has now become America. The real import of the "peace by understanding and discussion proposition is shown by the statement of Paul Lensch, a German Socialist, made only last October. He declares that such a peace "would be for Great Britain the greatest defeat in its history and the beginning of its ruin." Again, he tells us that Germany has a great and immense advantage "in the fact that Germany will have won the war, if she does not lose it, whereas England will have lost the war if she does not win it" That was written, note you, at the 6
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