Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-14
| Won BUEL0W RETURNS
Speaks in Reichstag on German
Foreign Policy.
HAS ENTIRELY RECOVERED
Says Relations With the United States
Are Friendly.
COMPLIMENTS FOR FRANCE
Great Crowd Of Distinguished Visitors
Had Assembled to Hear His Talk
First Since Illness.
COMPLIMENTS FOR FRANCE

BERLIN, November 14.-Chancellor Vor
Buelow, from the place in the reichstae
| where he fell unconscious seven months
| ago. spoke for forty-fve minutes today or
Germanys foreign relations, the highly in.
terested audience, including Baron Vor
| Aehrenthal, the Austro- Hungarian foreign
minister; Ambassador and Mrs. Charlie.
magne Tower, several other ambassadors
and quite fifty members of the diplomatic
corps, who occupied seats in the diplomatic
| Enclosure. Princess Won Buelow sat IN the
| front row Of the chairs in the court box
| Every foreign mission had exhausted Its
allotment of cards in providing places for
| distinguished strangers.
Immediately after Prince Won Buelow had
entered the house and bowed his acknowl-
edgments of the applause the president OF
the house rang his bell, calling the reich
stag to order
Herr Bassermann, national-liberal, fol-
lowing up his question of yesterday. asking
for Information regarding the country's for.
eign relations, said that since Prince Bis
marck left Germany respected and loved by
her neighbors the country's foreign policy
had entered on period of journeys,
speeches, kilograms and courtesies-a period
of unsteadfness which caused disquiet not
only at home but abroad. One must ac-
knowledge, he added, that the position of q
directing statesman was more difficult to-
day than formerly, because of the many
uncomfortable influences that disturbed the
management of the business
Backstair Diplomacy.
Herr Bassermann then alluded to the re-
ports that group of spiritualists have in
fiuence at court. saying that from what
one had read during the last few days ''the
| suggested spiritualistic romances and back
stairs history reminded one of the Byzan-
tine period, with its fiatterers or the cabi-
net government of William III, or the cabal
| under Emperor Frederick Wilhelm w.
This statement was greeted with cries
of Quite right from various parts of the
chamber.
Herr Bassermann then described Ger
many's position among her neighbors as
isolated, saving she had no firm friends,
not even Italy or Austria.
Chancellor Won Buelow's reply was
| marked by his old time clearness of elocu-
ton and harmonious succession of SEN
fences, but there was less vivacity and
lightness Of style than formerly His grav-
ity was possibly due to the delicacy of his
position, for it was to this speech that all
cellors complete recovery of his health,
and they We're satisfied, especially with the
second half of his speech, with Its frequent
touches of humor.
Buelow's Reply.
After thanking the members of the house
for their expressions Of sympathy during
his illness, the chancellor went at once into
the subject. Referring first to the relations
between Germany and France the chan
cellor related a conversation which he had
with the late Leon Gambetta in which the
French statesman said:
France has sunk to her knees
Won Buelow's reply was:
up and forWard."-
The emotions of France, the chancellor
added, were like a thermometer-with the
pressure of the hand the quicksilver rose or
fell.
Il may remark here" he continued, that
this vivacity of French patriotism is very
strong, is the ambition of the French
people, and also the traditional brilliant
qualities of our neighbors, which require us
! to be alert and armed, SO that we may pro-
tect the estate we lost on the VoSges and
won back again with streams of German
blood"
American Reference.
During the course of his speech Chan.
| cellor Won Buelow said:
Our relations with the United States
continue on most friendly basis, resting
| as they do upon historical and natural
| reasons. The frontiers of the two coun.
! tries do not touch. nor do our politica,
| interests collide anywhere. In order tc
| necessary to arrange a mutually beneficial
| agreement in an obliging spirit. AS boil
| sides have this spirit it seems impossible
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