Professor Quidde, German pacifist, wrote a letter to Hans von Seecht, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr. He deplored the fact that young Germans were being given military training. He pointed out that the Versailles Treaty was thereby being flagrantly and dangerously defied. He explained that the French were angered. He prophesied that enemies of the Fatherland would one day make "these military preparations" an excuse for invasion.
Replied the hard, harsh, bellicose von Seecht: "The ideas of peace are in themselves difficult of comprehension for a people so maltreated as the German nation, but...
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