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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919.
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DETESTATION OF GERMAN IS
VOICED BY CARDINAL MERCIER
"One of Your Officers Ordered Bayonet Charge on "Women," Baron von
der Lancken Is Told; Spies Follow Belgian Primate.
Cardinal Mercler'i atory. Including bis
c-vrresDontlence with the German authori
ties in Belgium durlnc the war, 1014 to
IK 18, edited by Professor Fernand Mayence
Uuvain university and translated by the
Kenedictine Monks of St. Augustine's.
Kiimssate, England.
Explanatory Comni'iit by Professor
iernand Slayence.
Two German officials Von Woeller and
Von Sandt. commandant at Mallnes were
witnesses of the lonB and candid Inter
view between the Cardinal and Von der
j.ur.oken. The latter, whose full title was
Tiaron von der Lancken-Wakenitz, was
Admirably equipped for his post at the
nead of the political department of the
government of occupation.
Ha was an adroit and experienced Oiplo
7iat and had served for ten years as
counselor of the German embassy in Paris.
His French was impeccable and he was a
inaster of suveral other languages, al
though he did not like to speak English.
Personally .ho was a much more ingra
tiating man than Von Hissing, and he took
n ni-tlstin delleht in subtleties of argu
ment, for which the governor-general had
little taste.
The keen, blue-eyed, well-groomed, hand
some Von dor Lancken was, of course,
thoroughly impregnated with Prussian
standards of government and conduct- His
rigidity of principles was unmodified by
any sentimentality, but his acute mind
was constantly prodding him to demon
strate what he regarded as the logic of
the German contentions.
This penchant drew him into protracted
discussions with the Cardinal, which some
times widely departed from the immediate
questions at issue. At one time the priest
and the diplomat explored the pros and
cons of Kantian philosophy.
Mercier was on familiar ground here.
As a professor in Louvain university he
had given much intellectual attention to
Kant and long before the war he squarely
opposed the teachings of the German
philosophers which reached their mad
maximum in Nietszche's preposterous dic
tum "Be hard!"
In fairness to Von der Lancken, it should
b said that he fully realized that his an
tagonist was a master of dialects and pos
nussor of ono of the most brilliant minds
In Europe. In the presence of the Baron
the Cardinal always stood erect and with
folded arms and Von der Lancken, by the
xules of courtesy, was thus prevented from
Bitting- down.
At their last session, just before the
armistice, the diplomat came not as an
argumentative commander, but as a hum
ble suppliant. He urged the Cardinal to
use his Influence to soften the treatment
of the German stragglers by the Belgians.
The primato promised help. Von der
J.ancken's sense of dramatic values rose to
the situation. The Cardinal extended a
hand withheld from his clever foe for more
than four years. The Baron knelt and
kissed tho episcopal ring.
"Now I know." h reported at head
quarters shortly afterward, "that Merciet
9s a great man."
A
KD if I were a sedition mon
ger, Baron, what a splendid
game I might have played!
!What a lovely subject for a sensa
tional pamphlet to appear at Paris
or London! In it I might have nar
rated the antics at Malines and your
DreDosteroua repression of the epis
copal blessing and the mild gesture j
of my private secretary. But I re
frained: and just as you found me
unbending in carrying out my pasto
ral duties, so did I desire to pass over
merely personal incidents. I deemed
it prudent to retire for some days to
l'Hermite in order to withdraw from
any likely manifestations of public
sympathy. "With your preconceived
ideas regarding me, you imagined my
retreat could have no other motive
than revolutionary projects."
"Oh! revolutionary, no."
"The Belgian people are calm and
patient, abiding their time. There
were no f rancs-tireurs when your
armies invaded our territory. Only
lately I had occasion to address all the
clergy of my diocese assembled at Ma
lines for the clergy retreat and I
urged them to say to the people: 'The
defense of our country must be left to
our army; it is not your task to make
irregular assaults on the enemy. Do
not by your rashness justify the re
proach that slanderous tongues
brought against you at the outbreak
of hostilities."
"Why, Baron, as to the heart of the
Belgian people, know that you have
not captured it, nor will you ever do
so.- Let me say with all freedom and
be not ruffled by the apparent rude
ness of my words, the Belgians do
you no evil and never will; but in
their hearts they hold your rule in
detestation. That is the truth, and
after a whole year's experience,
strange to say, you do not seem to
grasp it.
"But We Are Patient."
"you imagine that your method of
ruling, successful as it may be in Ger
many, must needs succeed here. You
grossly deceive yourselves. I have
upent my life in teaching. In so do
ing I have learned that in a young
man's education you must first learn
to know him before applying formu
las. To make laws and to apply them
are two different matters. You seem
to be ignorant of these primary
truths, hence your mistake. We keep
our hearts unsubdued, but we are pa
tient. And what I said in the month
of January to those who came to com
plain in the governor-general's name
of my first pastoral I repeat to you
today. It is by giving our people the
assurance that Belgium is and will
remain a free country that we are
able to preach patience and to see
that it is practiced in spite of you.
"I believe I have thus met the first
complaint drawn up against me by
the governor-general andI have at
the same time implicitly furnished an
answer to tho second.
"2. The governor finds there is a
lack of agreement between the lan
guage of my pastorals and the kind
ly disposition of which I gave him
an assurance when he promised on
his part to do all in his power to heal
all our wounds.
Country First Thought.
"Of course, I desire to spare my
country fresh Bufferings; and when
the governor-general declares to me
that it is his ambition to heal our
wounds rather than to embitter them,
of course I am ready to second him.
"But the governor - general's mis
take, and yours, too, begins the mo
ment you imagine that you can treat
us as submissive children. This you
cannot do: Belgium is not a conquered
country which you have the right to
treat as your own: it is a belligerent
nation which has preserved and hopes
still to preserve her independence and
her king.
"I know, baron, that in an interview
with my secretary, Canon Loncin, you
were good enough to acknowledge
that not one of the priests shot by
your armies at the time of Invasion
had been proved guilty. I am pleased
with this overdue recognition of our
innocence. But what has been proved
I in the case of our priests will be
! proved tomorrow, if yoi allow it, in
the case of our massacred and Im
prisoned civilians. It is Just this in
vestigation we demand; and so -long
as our rights and the sincerity of our
attitude have not had due recogni
tion, between you and us no under
standing is possible.
."Allegiance Goes Eliewhen."
"You would ,be quite wrong to
doubt of the governor-general's kind
ly Intentions. I, who am always near
him and know him, I can assure you
that he has the sincerest desire to do
all he can for the Belgians.
"I do not doubt he governor-general's
eincerity. When I had the
honor of seeing him, he spoke with
an accent of sincerity which I be
lieved then and believe still. But be
tween him and trs there is a funda
mental misunderstanding. He, would
wish to see us submissive, and we
claim the right to remain interiorlly,
in heart and soul, unconquered. We
respect your external regulations in
so far as they are requisite for the
maintenance of public order; but our
allegiance goes elsewhere.
"This is how we understand your
position: You are a mighty power
confronted with a very small country.
You have trampled our soli under
foot without any invitation from us;
and your own heads have acted as
spokesmen in declaring that you were
sorry to have to invade our territory
against your will, from necessity, and
that you were desirous to repair as
soon as possible the wrong done us.
"Remembering the conditions under
wnicn you- have taken possession of
tne greater part of our soil, vou
I ought logically to have said to your
selves: 'We will make Belgium suffer
as iittie as we can; we will show her
an sucn consid ration as is consist
ent with the needs entailed bv our oc.
cupation of the country; for when we
come to think of it, she was not our
enemy, and after all it is we who
have brought upon her the necessity
of opposing our passage across her
territory.
Young Men Eager.
"Why then bar the road so roughly
against a few young men who are
burning with a desire to fulfill their
in.rioiic duty at their comrades'
side?"
"But they would all go!"
Ana it tney did all go. where is
the great evil? You boast of hav
ing o.uuu.uuo soldiers! What can
icvv nunareas, or let us say a few
thousands, more or less, do against
uui mat; oeneve me, we are
xiu. airaia or them.
vejy wen then, we are agreed.
ucea not De afraid of them. In
that case let them pass. They will
be practicing a virtus
Germans prize above all others, name-
y, "mnarjr patriotism. it will, there
fore, be a good thing. Then you will
rm .Belgium Of VOUthM rikrnintUH
..unitleu ttiiu. WICnOUt Work", whn at
luuuieiu x iook at it from your
i""" oi view may become tur
bulent and dangerous to public or
v.iii;u you wish and oue-ht r
preserve. Look, for examr,i
those young men from our universi-
' w" are champing the bit in
forced inaction. Would it not be a
thousand times better for them to be
-li jr at least, if you
u iet mem go, if you think
you ought to aDDlr vour
j emulations in their case, let it h
u. arrest ail you -may succeed in
catching; prevent them from berln.
i.B ineir pranks again, but I ha-
v,- ...... iu ii cat mem as criminals.
Names Are Withheld. .
And if a brave Driest crivoa
dear young fellows, of whnm
ii, Belgium is legitimately proud.
some xrienaiy advice, or puts them
on ineir road, or in erenerai 9ffnrH
them help, is this sufficient reason to
imprison him, consign him to a dun
geon, or deport htm?
X could be more Drecise In whnr
x am aDout to say by mentioning
names, out discretion will not allnn
me to reveal them to you. I rofer
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to a personage, and no one less than
a member of your own entourage. To
a priest who expressed himself sur
prised at the frequency of arrests
among priests and religious, this
politician answered: 'They are re
venging themselves on the priests
for the attitude taken up by the
Cardinal.' Is that good will? Is that
justice?"
"Dear me; who can have said that?"
"You may ignore my confidence if
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3. You were saying, Baron, that
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habitual attitude with my frequent
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your feelings."
"Not at all; say what you think."
(To Be Continued.
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