Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-07-21
RADICALS CLAIM
new CHANCELLOR
The Majority "BloC" Plans to
Continue Fight.
ROW OVER FOREIGN OFFICE
Relohtag Majority to Demand That
MiohaeIls Accept Thelr Statement Of
Peace Terms.

Pcacc Terms.
The new chancellor, DR.. Miohaelis,
Is described In special dispatches from
Bellin as working night and day on his
program speech and tho selection OF
new material for the Prussian imperi.
al administration.
The Lokal Anzelger says the chang.
es have been completed and the Chan.
cellor will appear In tho reichstag ac
oompanied by ali his new colleagues.
The Tageblatt says Herr Micbaelis
ts reticent on his policy.
The reichstag is expected to adjourn
on Friday until September, first voting
the war credits almost unanimously.
dispatches said DR.. Miohaelis
would make his maiden speech on
Thursday
A depatch from Berlin says the ma.
1ority "bloc" plans to present peace
terms in a resolution to the reichstag
Michaelis statement that he accept
1t In principle, otherwise cooperation
Is impossible. Meanwhile the execu
ton OF this plan depends upon the
extent to which the "bloc" holds to-
Eether.
A late edition Of the Lokal Anzeiger
asserts that the new chancellor Ia for
the foreign policy and peace terms ex.
pounded by Tield Marshal Won linden.
burg and the pan-German camp. It
quotes conservative and national lib
ernl members Of the reichstag who at
tended o conference with Won linden
burg, General Won Ludendorff, first
Quartermaster General. and DR.. MI
chaelis as being most favorably i'm
! pressed with the results.
The Lokal Anzeiger asserts Of It's
own knowledge that DR.. MichaGis al
ready has este ed relations OF ab.
eQlute unantrS u i I'd 0o:Operatinn with
these lnilitary-political chieftains. The
newspaper strongly recommends to DR..
4 Michaelis and parliament the postpone.
d ment until tho end OF the war of the
settlement of all contentious interna
& questions, including, naturally, Prus.
sian suffrage reform, thereby properly
rehuking what 1t terms impertinent in.
terferonce from enemy countries In the
internal German affairs and demon.
strating the harmonious unity Of the
country.
The selection of a successor to the
foreign secretary, DR.. Alfred thinner.
mann, is still unsettled. Pressure ia
being brought from two directions to
block the proposed nomination OF
3 Count Brockdorff- Rantzau, the German
minister at Copenhagen, and to substi.
tute Admiral Won Hintze, minister to
Norway, or Count Won Bernstorff, for
. a. hoc - 1T %
& The present minister to Christiana Is
greatly desired by pan-Germans and
advocates OF super-vigorous policy
not only on account of his high diplo.
matte qualifications, but chiefly on &C.
count Of his antecedents.
Apparently 1t Is felt that former
naval officer. particularly one who
played such a prominent role at Ma.
i Mia In the events Of 1898, will offer
the necessary guarantee that the Ger.
& man forign policy in regard to peace
negotiations will be afterwards con.
\ Quoted along desired energetic lines.
Il The emperor Is said to favor Won
Hintze.
The Tageblatt. the Mittags Zeitung
and the Socialist organ Vorwaerts
unite in declaring that the candidacy
q of Admiral Won Hintze for foreign min.
1 lister Is a move of the super-annexa.
& tionists.
N The Tageblatt and Vorwaerts warn
& DR.. Michaelis that he cannot accept
! Won Htntze without compromising the
administration with pan-German
faint. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung
(Reyentlow' paper supports Won
Hintze's candidacy.