GERMAN GUILT

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 143, 14 March 1938, Page 5

GERMAN GUILT

Conviction By Brutality To Austria AUGUST, 1914, RECALLED (Received March 14, 12.30 a.m.) New York, March 12. The New York “Herald Tribune” in a leader under the headline “Germany Pleads Guilty” writes: — “It is to the frightening days of August, 1914, when the Kaiser’s steel hosts first invaded Belgium, that memory reverts to-day. Military technique has altered, but the fundamentals are unchanged. It is not overmuch to say that what Germany has just done toward Austria seems to the outward world a confession of guilt in 1914. In manner, as in effect, the parallels are appallingly complete. Hence 1 the sinking of heart which will overwhelm every friend of Germany in the present hour. True, the entire people cannot be held responsible for the deeds of the dictator, yet, plainly ’ enough, Hitler has marched to his present triumph by and with the consent of the great mass of German people. The brutality of this latest gesture toward a peaceful nation is but the inevitable sequel of a long chain of acquiscence in earlier savageries.” The “New Ycirk Times” in a leader says the blunt fact of the matter is that after long years of concern in Italy about the potential menace of the German army to Brennar, the German army is at Brennar to-day. This is an enorrqous fact for all Europe.