The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-19
LUDENDORFF
"REAL RULER"
To Govern Germany Under
an Iron Dictator
ship
MICHAELIS A
MERE AUTOMATON
Likely to Request Delay on
Reform and Peace in
Address To-day

London, July l9.--According 90 news
brought to Amsterdam by arrivals from
Berlin belief in liberal circles there il
that Chancellor Michaelis is merely q
stop-gap who will prepare the way for
something in the way of dictatorship
with General Ludendorf in supreme con-
troll. A despatch to the Exchange Tele'
graph company from Berlin, via Amster-
dam, announces that the chancellor has
asked the president of the Reiehstag to
summon Thursday afternoons session
for communication from the govern
ment."
The chancellor, as a Danish editor re.
marked, is preserving the silence of a
sphinx on the German peace program
and the questions OF internal reform, but
the liberal press and politicians in Ger
many manifest an increasing apprehen-
sion that when the sphinx finally breaks
silence he will speak with decided pro.
German accent.
Herr Michaelis' putting forward of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg and Gen
eral Ludendorfr to discuss German peace
conditions with members of the Reich
stag, his failure to consult parliamentary
leaders on prospective new appointments
to the cabinet his antecedents, previous
environment, and openly avowed salts
faction of the conservative national lib
eral party men with the change of chan
eellors, contribute, as Tuesdays German
newspapers show, to the marked uneasy
feeling in liberal and Socialist circles on
what the ehancellor's maiden speech on
Thursday will show.
The speech is not expected to go ex
haustively into questions of reform or
peace, as the time is too short for Chan
cellor Michaelis to elaborate definite
program. The Socialist agency reports
that in all probability he will ask six
weeks grace to inform himself and work
out a detailed policy. The agency, I'M
doubtedly speaking for Herr Scheide
mann, the Socialist leader, demands,
however, that Herr Michaels immediate
ly and unequiyocally make clear his at
titude on the Prussian franchise reform |
and the peace formula.
The Lokal Anzeiger also reckons with |
a deferred presentation of the chancel |
lor's program and instances the question
of parliamentizing the government as
one of the problems Herr Michaelis will
avoid because it cannot be approached |
until after exhaustive discussion by the /
federated governments. 1t appears I'M
necessary for Chancellor Michaelis to
burn his fingers with this question at
all, because the Catholic Center party
already has changed sides. In inspired
articles the clerical papers explain that
the party Interpretation of parliamentar
ism is merely the bringing of the govern
ment and Parliament into intimate touch
mot the introduction of a parliament
rs always opposed. The Center merely
wishes to change the system that at
present binders member of Parliament
rom entering the government. The Ma
tional Liberals have also adopted
closer touch" theory.
The papers manifest some uncertainty
regarding the fate of the Reichstag's
,eacc resolution. The clerical and radi-
al organs insist it will have big ma
GRITTY, although they evidently are count
ng on some decidedly uncertain votes
they fear, however, Chancellor Michaelis
will refuse to accept it as basis of his
policy. Vorwaerts, the Socialist news
PAPER, in leading article warns Herr I
1ichaelis of the danger of temporizing |