The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
VON KUEHLMANN IN. RE|CHSTAG SPEECH. PRA|SESP POPE'S NOTE.
German Foreign Minister Claims There Is No Di- vision of Policy in
 Empire

Berlin, September 29.-(Via London.)-- British Admiralty per Wireless Press.) The German secretary of foreign affairs, pr. Richard Won Kuehimann, speaking before the main committee of the Reich stag, said he could not venture to say the papal steps toward peace.
 ''This courageous initiative of the pope" said the secretary, twill mark an epoch in the history of this tremendous battle of nations and will appear as an unfading page in the annals of Vatican diplomacy. The pope threw the word peace into the turmoil of battle at q time when events threatened to trans stained ruins.
 WANT HONORABLE PEACE
 "The German people and the German government, whose consciousness of their strength and internal security always made it easy for them to emphasize their willingness to conclude an honor- able peace, have reason to welcome grate- luAy tIic llttldtlNo Ol LI0 SuIldy made 1t possible for them to set forth again their national policy In a clear, un- ambiguous manner. I say Intentionally national policy as I hope and believe the reply of the German government, both as regards it's form and contents, embodies the desires of an overwhelming majority of the Germans.
 For our purely German development, the note is also landmark. It is the first result of the collaboration between all the factors of the government and the representatives of the German Par liament. That has been attempted here for the first time and with a cordiality that has no precedent, so far as can see, even in purely parliamentary states"
 CONFIDENCE IN POPE
 This collaboration, added the secretary, both with regard to Its principle and re- suits, is of a kind which a statesman having the German foreign policy. at heart might regard with perfect confi- dence. He denied that there is in Ger many today one policy of the govern ment and another policy of the people, and declared that this legend could be destroyed if the Reichstag stood behind the policy represented in the reply to the pope.
 DENIES DIVISION
 pr. Won Kuehlmann also denied that there existed in the government various views or that there were divergence of opinion and aim among the leading men or between the imperial administration and the field marshais. All were work ing in the closest and most complete har- mony, and he gained the best impressions for the future by the harmonious collab- oration which revealed itself between the Parliament and the government on the question of the papal note.
 TEUTONIC REPLY
 "The principles of the reply to the papal note as presented by the government, continued the secretary. appear accep- table to the representatives of all the parties. Consequently believe I can say with full right that all attempts of the enemy to drive a wedge between the German people and the German govern ment on the question of the basis of our foreign policy and by the propagation of the fiction that the German people does not stand by the Kaiser and the imperial chancellor will be repulsed in the most crushing manner by the support given to this document"