Evening star., 1917-05-03
POUR BR0ADS|DES
UPON CHANCELLOR
Dissatisfaction With Won Beth
mann HoIIWeg Grows in
All Directions.
VACILLATION is CHARGED


Such German newspapers as are now
permitted to reach here, although evil
IDENTIFY carefully selected for the alb
sence of military news or any inforrla-
ton in regard to the strike movement,
indicate that the campaign against
Chancellor Won Bethmann Hollweg again
is in full swing. The conservatives. al
though insisting as usual that the other
parties observe political truce in the
interests of the fatherland, have adopted
and are publishing a set of resolutions
sharply attacking the chancellor ana
and vacillation the peace question
and in dealing with the strike agita-
ton.
See Danger to Nation.
The resolutions express grief and con-
cern at the steadily growing influence
| of the socialists, whose peace-making
efforts are declared to- be leading Ger
| many to the brink of ruin. Apparently
| this attack was timed to coincide with
| the opening of the reichstag. and it is
| significant that the resolutions are In
dorsed by the free conservative wing
| under Baron Won SeydlitZ. Baron Won
Seydlitz has hitherto been far less an
| extremist than Count Westarp and Herr
Won HeydeDrand, leaders OIL tne TeS uidt
or junker conservatives.
| Among the papers which are directing
| their fire against the chancellor are the
| conservative organs, the kreuz Zeitung
and the Deutsche Tages Zeitung. They
| accuse the premier of endangering the
monarchy and sailing course prescribed
| by the socialists. The Berlin correspond
| ent of the Hamburg F'remdenbiatt, IN
| long survey of the situation, declares
| that the political life of Germany is now
| n through
| fcr ences of opinion on external ard in
ternal questions which daily grow more
lively and of broader dimensions.
| Dissatisfaction Grows.
| The correspondent says that dissatisfac-
ton with the governments policy is grow
] ing in all directions, and that its reticence
on peace terms is being used to sharpen
mutual suspicious and the antagonism of
the parties. The social leaders. he con-
tinues, do not hesitate to explain and jus
| tify the latest strike movement on the
grounds of the delay in reforming the
| prussian franchise. On the other HAND,
the pan-German reactionists stop al moth
ing to prevent the formation of ma
jo-ity party capable of realizing the
needed reforms in the body politic.
| The writer declares that the national
liberals are coquetting with the con-
lservatives. and that the opportunist
clerical center is intent only on pres
lervation of its own influence. His pic
.ture of the situation at the opening OF
1.-THE reichstag is, in other words, one OF
general strife, in which each mans
| hand is against every other, a condition
promising an Illuminating parliamen-
tary discussion on all the questions in
dispute. This condition of affairs prob
| ably explains the decision of the so
ciaIists. whom their opponents accuse
| of having captured the chancellor, to
postpone the proposed Interpolation on
peace and perhaps put the brakes on a
discussion of the problems of political
| reform.
Workers Asked to Go Easy.
| The Berlin Vorwaerts. in an editorial
| signed by Herr Landsberg. socialist
deputy. attempts to convince the work.
men of the necessity of going easy with
reforms until peace is secured.
| The no-indemnity plank of the social
ist peace platform has been selected by
his opponents for their heaviest attack
| against Philip Scheidemann. The
workmen are told that ruin for the en-
pire and penury for themselves are GER
| tain unless heavy indemnity is exact
ed. Otherwise, they are informed, the
war will end with a German debt of at
least 120, 900. 900, 900 marks, requiring an
annual taxation of half a billion marks
! for interest and redemption. in addition
to three billion for normal expendi-
ture.