The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19
HOLWEG MADE 4
 GRAVE MISTAKE In Not Choosing Kaiser to
 Go to Italy BRAND ACTION FELT Article Written by Former French Minister of Foreign Affairs Is Be-
 ing Eagerly Discussed
 by Politicians
BRAND ACTION FELT

 the great festivities at Rome in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Italian unity. he thought he had solved a very happy problem. which would please everybody and hurt nobody's feelings, but the ueo- pie of three countries are now busy in- forming him that just the opposite is the case
 In Germany itself the liberal and radi- cal press plainly asserts that the chancel- Tor could not possibly have committed a greater stupidity if he wanted to lose the respect of all parties than by an- nouncing the official visit of the German crown prince and crown princess 10 Rome to congratulate the king and queen of Italy. The chancellor's decision is half hearted compromise. the act of a political coward, the papers say, who dares do things only by halves. Surely enough the "Germania" and other Catholic papers in Germany are delight ed that the kaiser will not lend splendor to a festival that celebrates the down. fall of the pope's worldly power, but the kaiser who had wanted to go, Is angry. The easily excited people of Italy, who see in the chancelor's act an insult to their nation, are also furious. and the Ill feeling against the sly 'tedescoes' may not be without effect on the Triple Alliance, especially as the Italians are much more attracted towards France, and the very festival they are about to celebrate will bring back to memory in the most vivid way the important part taken by the people of France In setting ItalV free. and tba in xxbia ab Italy has shown her gratitude, being now actually allied with her own arch enemy, Austria, and Germany, which crushed France only a little more than a decade after the time when Italians and French fought shoulder to shoulder.
 In Vienna too. the chancellors de- cision has aroused astonishment, and certain feeling of uneasiness. It is feared in Austria that the relations be. tween Italy on the one side and Ger many on the other will undergo a fur ther slackening. During the detberation of the Austro-Hungarian delegations at Buda-Pesth. reference was repeatedly made to the mistrust that would be awakened In Italy by the enormous mili- tary and naval armaments now in prep aration, and several of the delegates ex- pressed this opinion very plainly. It was also indicated that the government has ASeaNN tp OPPOSC tit utlcfdHCtS Hlduo by the Vienna clericals with sufficient force and more especially the speech made by Vice-Burgomaster Doctor Por- ger, who addressed a political meeting in favor of a renewal of the ecclesiastical state.
 The decision of the German chancellor just at this conjuncture increases the anxiety of those who look upon Italv's presence in the Triple Alliance as ne ,l1.x the pregnant words Italy must either be Austria's ally or her enemy'' origi- mates. At the present moment these diff faculties. which have not yet found ac tual expression, are increased by the question, now become of immediate inn portance, of whether the Austrian court will abstain from visiting Italy this year. and, out of respect for the pope, refrain from sending any member of the im- perial family to Rome The Archduke Franz Ferdinand is reported to have de- clared, that although he will not go to Rome, he intends to travel to the Turin exhibition, and to proceed from there 70 visit the king and queen of Italy at Racconigi. No confirmation of this statement has yet been received Should 1t be contradicted. it is certain that It will increase the ill-humor already exist ing among the Italian people toward Austria.
 A portion of the press gives loud ut terance to it's misgivings with regard to Germany's and Austria's intention to ig- nore the Italian festivities The Zeit writes in leader that the Triple Ali ance has again sustained a breach that will not be easily mended. The Montags- zeitung, whose important political posi- tion is well known, says it is much 10 be regretted that Kaiser Wilhelm should retreat before the pope, and prophecies serious consequences.
 believe, however that these need not be considered for the present. but com plications between Italy and her friends of the Triple Alliance have commenced and 1t is not difficult to predict to what result they will lead one day
 The effects of the fall of the Briand cabinet in France three weeks ago are are still being felt in practically all the important continental capitals. The Ger man people. who always had a certain amount of affection for the French gov ernment, which broke off relations with the Catholic church, feel that the acco- sation brought against M Brand of be- ing too lenient in carrying out the sepa- ration of church and state was abso- lutely unjust. Just now they would have rejoiced in a chancellor with Briand's determination and frmness. The opinion is also finding more and more believers here that Briands fall was not caused by his ecclesiastical policy, but far more by the general disapprobation felt in all political circles throughout France for some time past in regard to impor- tant questions connected with foreign policy. Some of the Vienna papers ex- press this opinion. and designate the op- position in parliament to M Briand's
 
 which turks the the deep dissatisfaction felt in France since the Potsdam inter- view. Therefore. argue several papers. the Briand cabinet Is the victim of the Potsdam interview, which caused the de- flection of Russia from her allies.
 Nobody pretends to know what the new French cabinets foreign policy will be, but if it is to carry out the inmost wishes of the people of France, it's policy no matter how skilfully managed must contain certain elements of grave danger for European peace.
 The article by the former French min ister of foreign affairs, M. Gabriel Hano- teaux, in the current issue of La Revue Habdomadaire," entitled "Il faut choi- sir" is being eagerly discussed in politi- cal circles as well here as in Vienna and St. Petersburg.
 M. Hanotaux insists that it is time the public was informed what the Triple En- tente really means. Tn 1870 the Second Empire reckoncd up till the last moment on the alliance of Austria and Italy, but the proposed treaties had not been signed nor had the military eventualities been considered.
 Once again France has come to the parting of the ways. The meaning of the Franco Russian alliance was &C., knowiedged and known to everyone, but