Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1919 — Germany Lives for Revenge and Will Seek It at First Opportunity [ARTICLE]

Germany Lives for Revenge and Will Seek It at First Opportunity

By LIEUT. COL. B. M. CHIPERFIELD

Judge Advocate 33rd Division

I do not think I overstate the case when I say that the German people are not conquered. They have in their hearts a great hate for England and France, and while they will sign the peace treaty and make the best of it, yet they will do it, in my judgment, with the reservation that the time will come when they can have their revenge. The German people along the Rhine paid the American soldiers great respect and implicit obedience. But they have a holy hate for the British and French. They also have a bitter feeling for the American nation, because they now believe that they would have won the war if the United States had not come in. The constant surprise along the Rhine and in Germany for the American today is the great number of children in all the towns. I never saw so many children, and the military idea is bom in them. Scores of these youngsters everywhere were playing at war with sticks for rifles. These children will not grow up with a horror of war m their hearts, because Germany has not been hurt at home with horrors, as have France and Belgium. I am certain they will feel that somehow, sometime they will yet realize their slogan —“Der Tag.” Germany lives for revenge and will seek it at the first opportunity.