New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-11
Herr Heckscher, Reichstag
Leader, Sees u. S. Allied
with Britain
Says Japan Will Find
Way to Join Germany
Predicts German-Russo-Jap
anese Coalition to Oppose
Anglo-Americans

Berlin, March 10 (by wireless 10
Tuckerton, n. J).-In forecast Of tho
worlds political situation after the
war, DR.. Siegfried Heckscher, men,
ber of the Foreign Relations Commit
tee of the Reichstag. predicted to-day
that President Wilson's war policies
would result in the formation Of two
new groups Of world powers. He said:
IL even go so far as to assert that,
unnfuenced by fate and the calcula-
tion of statesmen, President Wilson's
war policies ultimately will result, for
decades to come, in two new groups OF
world powers"
How would the future political map
Of the world look if the United States
entered the war;" DR.. Heckscher was
asked.
at is my unshaken conviction" he re-
piled, "that a new constellation of ma
tions would automatically result in
that eventuality. Personal sympathies
and antipathies would count for moth
ing 1t is wholly immaterial whether
we lean toward Japan or Japan toward
US. Jspan's life interests demand, in
spite Of all the solemn declarations OF
her statesmen, that she draw nearer
TO Germany, for with permanent en-
nifty toward Germany she cannot coun-
| teract the menace of an Anglo -Ameri-
can coalition.
Sees Japan as German Ally
I'VE Germans can calmly look on.
Japan must find a path that leads TO US,
and whatever is left in Germany of
l common interest in the white race will
/ disappear like chaf before the wind
with American Intervention in the wal
against u.s."
DR.. Heckscher then asserted that
( President Wilson's war policies would
automatically result in realignment
of the world powers.
"On the one hand" he declared, "wC
shall have an Anglo American group
/ Opposing it will be a German-Russo-
Japanese coalition, which, by the way
will not be nimical to the life interests
; of our Central and Eastern European
allies. especially emphasize that
Russia's dream Of conquered Con-
stantinople, without conquest, will
have been realized with the Darda'
nelles proclaimed free waterway.
Looking still further forward. il
would seem TO be plainly indicated that
with the Dardsnelles open the irrecon-
cilable contrast between Russian and
English interests will stand out more
boldly than ever before, because OF
England's mastery cunning in convert
ing the Mediterranean into an inland
sea. in order that in the future, instead
Of facing the problem of the Darda-
nelles. Russia will find herself con-
fronted with the question of Gibraltar
THE seed sown by President wilson
in this war will not ripen to-day, nor
tomorrow. 1t will spring into matu,
rity when the historical exposition OF
the American and japanese Monroe
doctrines will occur on the high seas
and the battlefelds."
Mexico Alliance a Precaution
"Anv discussion Of developments in
I Washington just now is severely nahdl-
canned because of our dependency upon
/ the Reuter- and Havas dispatches said
4 Dr Heckscher. when the correspondent
asked him for the impression IN Relcn-
TAG circles concerning President VIII
/ dispatches" continued DR.. Heckscher
"not only frequently are two or three
days late. but, as we have regretfuliy
! learned. frequently are very cunningly
/ distorted for obvious purposes.
"The excitement in your country over
/ Foreign Secretary zimmerman IN
structions to the German Minister In
! Mexico is quite incomprehensible to US
Accuses the President
"Did not Mr.. Wilson, at time when
the two governments still were formal
/ lv on a friendly footing, boldly set ou,
| 10 marshal the whole neutral world
against US? Then witness the action
/ of tho Entente in China. ! desire ia
emphasize, as typically German, the
/ fact that Secretary Zimmerman, IN
his strictly secret instructions TO tnt
German Minister in Mexico. explicitly
stated; You must not undertake any
steps until the United States has de-
cIarod war on US Are there not among
your citizens men Of standing who nave
retained calm and sober Judgment, as
did Senator Underwood, who literally
voiced the sentiments expressed by
factions in the Reichstag, in pointing
out the period or eventuality when the
possible German Mexican alliance was
TO be consummsted?
Note.-Dr. Siegfried Heckscher, au-
! thor of the remarkable homily above
is a personal and political intimate OF
Foreign Secretary zimmerman, with
whom, very probably, he collaborated
in evolving this forecast Of the post
bellum state of the world. Like Zim-
mermann, he represents the economic
| idea in politics, or what in this coun-
/ Is called "big business" He is, or
was. a director Of the Hamburg-Amer-
/ lean Line.
He now is chiefly engaged in state.
| craft and is one of the leading au-
! thorities of the Reichstag on foreign
relations. He holds. with Secretary
: Zimmerman, the fixed idea that wal
! between the United States and Japan is
inevitable. and propagates i. industri
ously. He dislikes President Wilson
/ violently.
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