EMERGENCY DEFENCE AS A RIGHT WHEN we laid down our arms in November, 1918, a policy was entered upon which in all human probability was bound to lead to utter ruin.
It became comprehensible how a period of time which was sufficient, between 1806 and 1813, to fill Prussia, utterly defeated though she was, with new energy and fighting spirit, was allowed to go by without being made use of, and, in fact, led to ever further weakening of our State. The reason for it was that after the shameful Armistice was signed, no one had either energy or courage to oppose measures of oppres¬ sion which the enemy was repeatedly bringing about. He was too clever to demand too much at any one time.
Orders for disarmament, making us politically helpless, and economic plunderings followed one after another, with the idea of producing the spirit which would regard General Dawes’ mediation as a piece of luck.
By the winter of 1922-23 it was realized by all that, even after the conclusion of Peace, France was working with iron determination to achieve her original war aims. For no one will believe that in the course of the four years of the most decisive struggle in her history France shed the not too rich blood of her people simply in order later on to receive compensation through Reparations for the losses she would sustain. AlsaceForraine, by itself, would not explain the energy of the French war leaders, if it was not already part of France’s great political programme of the future. That programme was as follows : Disintegration of Germany into a collection of small States. That was what Chauvinist France fought for, and in doing so, she was selling her nation to be vassals in truth of the inter¬ national world Jew.