Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-16
Policies of Dr. MichaeIiS Not
Disclosed and Newspapers
Profess to Be UnadviSed Re-
garding Future.
EMPEROR COMPELLED
TO YIELD OPINIONS
Former Representative of Kai-
ser Accused of Lack of In
itiative and Blamed With
Weak Resolution.


"Copenhagen, July 15.-Germanys
FIRST commoner chancellor, DR..
George Michaelis, a hureaucrat with
cut even 4 noble won" before his
name has as yet given no indication
OF his policy regarding reform and
peace. Neither the conservatives nor
the liberals have ventured to call him
their own.
The chancellor's first step which
| might be interpreted as an indication
OF an open mind, was to receive rep
iesentatives of the two divergent
groups in the reichstag and permit
them to explain their respective
standpoints, the chancellor playing
the role OF listener to the converse
| tlons conducted by the vice chancel-
lor, DR.. Karl Hefferich, and the
reichstag representatives.
Policy Not Disclosed.
The German papers unite in char
iacterizations of his energy and fair
Imindedness, but are most reserved in
| their predictions of his probable pol
| icy. The papers aligned for the So
called German peace are perhaps "a
shade more enthusiastic about the DO
litical possibilities under the new
regime than the radical and socialist
| OF gans. The Cologne Volks Zeitung.
the Catholic organ of Pan-German
| sympahizers, says Dir. Michaelis un-
doubtedly stands nearer the right
Ipf ri, ho
comment, evidently emanating from
Wilhelmstrasse, is that the new chan
cellor regards as his mission the res
toration of internal harmony of the
ration, whatever policy may be
adopted. No matter what else may
result, the change will undoubtedly
mean the disappearance of the Won
Bethmann peace program.
Bcthmann's Policy Personal.
DR.. Won Bethmann- Hollwegs poll
cy regarding the ultimate aims OF the
war had from the beginning been a
personal one, in which the chancel-
lor above the parties" had formed
program above parliamentary parties,
the military authorities and the en-
peror alike, and endeavored by gem
tie, steady pressure and suggestions
to impose it upon a changeful sover-
e'gn oscillating between vistas of bril-
liant ambition and realizations of cold |
facts; upon the puissant military |
caste represented by Field Marshal |
Won Hindenburg and General Luden- |
dorff, and a blundering unbrilliant /!
parliament.
The appointment of DR.. MichaeIs !
means a new deal of the
cards.
Berlin papers which were publish
ed before the appointment of DR..
Michaelis was known, throw further
light on the circumstances of Won
-Hollweg's retirement. They
show that the emperor was confront
ed by the necessity Of dropping the
imperial chancellor or virtually the
entire Prussian cabinet, the members
of which, including the war minister,
General Won Stein, a soldier, not q
politician, submitted their resigna-
tons, declaring they could not remain
If Won Bethmann-Elollweg were re-
tanned.
Bavaria Positive.
The BaVarian premier, Count Won
Hertling, who favored moderate peace
proposals but refused flatly to accept
the idea of parliamentary ministry,
which would diminish Bavaria's special
influence on the government, seems
to have thrown himself into the
against Won Bethmann at the
last minute. The Bavarian centrist
of the reichstag started an
anti -Bethmann revolt within the party
and the crown prince made valid his
long standing objections to the i'm
perial chancellor.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg and
General Ludendorff were again sum
moned to Berlin, not to interfere, ac-
2ordng to the unanimous accounts in
he Berlin papers, in the political side
Z the situation, but to sdetrack the
proposed resolution by giving en-
,ourging reports of the military sit
Iation and to inspire the members of \,
he reichstag with a belief in the pos
siblities of obtaining that German
)eace worthy OF the sacrifices made"
o which Won Hindenburg over and
over again had committed himself in
lis published replies to the memorials
If pan-German organizations
Sweeping Changes Ahead.
Before the selection of DR.. Mich !
,els became known, the papers gen G
rally agreed that Won Bethmann-
1ollwegs retirement would be accom- $
panied by sweeping changes in the i'm I
,erial and Prussian administrations. t
rhe feeling was general that most of {
he secretaries of state and ministers n
Who had been in office since and be- n
ore the war and had exhausted their $