Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-28
GRIP Of M|CHAEL|S
NOT A SECURE ONE
Possible Change in Imperial
ChanceIIors Openly Discuss
ed by Berlin Press.
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COPENHAGEN, August 2S.-The pos
sibility of another change in imperial
chancellors in Germany is discussed by
Georg Bernhard in the Nossische Zei-
tung. He says that it is plainly evident
already that the appointment of a
minor official like DR.. Michaelis, with
out general political experience. was a
great mistake and that the results de-
sired are not apt to be reached quickly
under the leadership of the new ad-
ministration. Parliament. he argues.
must take the matter of internal re-
forms and peace into its own hands.
Herr Bernhard still hopes that Chan
cellor Michaelis will see the error of
his ways and avoid the necessity for
another change in the chancellorship.
Theodor Wolff of the Tageblatt dis
misses the new NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
committee as "a nostrum designed to
soothe the cry of the German people
for popular control of the government"
Real Reform Not Wanted.
Herr Wolff attacks DR.. Michaelis'
reasons for sidetracking parliamentary
reform until after the war and says
that the truth is that parliamentarism
is not desired just now because 1t would
impose real control upon the govern
ment and end the domination of secret
influences.
Pope Benedicts peace note will be the
principal subject of discussion at a
meeting in Berlin this afternoon. in
which Chancellor Michaelis. members
of the German parliament and repre-
sentatives of Prussia Bavaria. Saxony
and Wurttemburg will participate. Re-
ports from the German capital add that
DIR. Michaelis will leave for Belgium
Immediately after the meeting. where
he will have a conference with the gov
ernor general. Baron Won Falkenhausen
Members of Council Named.
BERLIN. August 81. via London. Au-
gust 2S.-Seyen members of the federal
council who will confer with the reichs-
tag deputies in the first meeting of the
newly created free commission tomor-
row have been appointed. The king
doms OF Bavaria. Saxony and Wurttem-
berg will have representatives as per-
manent members of this council, while
in selecting the remaining representa-
tives of the bundesrat the chancellor
has provided system of alternates.
states to participate in the delibera-
tions of the council. The members from
Mecklenburg. Hesse and the Thurin-
gian states and the Hanseatic towns
will alternate with those from Baden,
Oldenburg. Brunswick. Anhalt and AL
sace-Lorraine
The deliberations will be presided
over by the imperial chancellor. who
sentative of Prussia. The accredited
representatives of the federal states
will not participate as representatives
Of their governments. but as individ-
uals. the benefit of whose experience is
being sought in the joint discussion of
the empires foreign affairs
Strips Bundesrat of Voice.
This virtually dispenses with the
bundesrat committee on foreign rela-
tions. which was created at the wish of
Bavaria. the second largest state in the
federation. Bavaria desired to have a
voice in the conduct of the govern
ment's foreign policies. This committee
is largely in the nature of a small Sc
cret convention, which will not even he
obliged to report TO the bundesrat
The new free commission which will
meet tomorrow to consider the reply
to the Pope's peace note, gives the
bundesrat a wider scope in the discus
sion or the governmental policy and in
measure places the jurisdiction of
that body on a parity with that of the
reichstag. At the conclusion of the
Tuesday session the chancellor will
leave for brief trip to Belgium
The reichstag main committee today
resumed its executive sessions with a
discussion of the administration of the
occupied territories.
Won Stumm May Retire.
DR.. Won Stumm. undersecretary for
foreign affairs, has been granted leave
of absence owing to i'll health 1t is
not at present known whether he will
return to the foreign Office or be as
signed to some other post. Baron Won
dem Bussche -Hadd enhausen Will be act