Evening star., 1917-12-02
ALLIES DRIFT
!. TO DICTATORSHIP
Hermany's Course Opposite
/, One, Says Foreign Min
I lister Won KuehImann.
DISCUSSES FOES AIMS

~ the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, December 1.-After re-
1srring to the Teuton victory IN Italy
and to tho bitterness caused IN Ger
many by Italy's entrance into the war;
Dr. Won Kuehlmann, foreign minister
aaid In the reichstag:
Nevertheless there be some who IN
mia Hour of utter collapse will not
Nithhold sympathy from the Italian
people"
eesses, the foreign secretary said. was
noticeable also in England and france
TN Germany" the speaker said. the
nreat words spoken by the emperor AT
the outset of the war have during the
war borne fruit and have developed
relations between the people and the
crown which have on the basis OF the
most sincere and mutual confidence
forevermore been rendered Ireer anu
moro active and therefore stronger.
Sees Allied Dictatorship.
<~Tn Germany the government Is car
ring out the program laid down by
The chancellor yesterday. not giving
way under party pressure. put Ialhes
proceeding with clear perception OF
has been actually opposite that OF Eng.
land and France. where freedom OF
thought and freedom of speech nave
been suppressed. partly by violent ano aa
which had been democracies things
are tending more and more toward
absolute dictatorship.
TN France. actuated by the dogged
dosire to continue the war, which finds
81 mainstay in President Poincare,
Clemenceau has been called to power
~ the last card in the game. AT the
narne. time that in Germany the chan
cellor is making the government pro-
cram a matter of detailed discussion
With the various parties. in France the
uewspapers devoted to Premier Glenn
enceau are praising him for having
constituted his cabinet entirely without
consulting parliament. in an absolutely
dictatorial manner and as one of the
Arst functions of the government the
ruthless suppression of pacifist efforts
- ANNOUNCED.
* Situation in England.
I'm England the development which
has now occurred in France took place
oonne time ago. The party for war to
fore. He was invested with powers
under which, disregarding the pro-
Visions so dear to the British constitu-
ton, he was made de facto dictator.
0sorEe probably had not quite come
up. to the expectationS of his friends.
hut that inasmuch as there seemed to
b no one to surpass him In the de-
Termination to carry on the war, un-
lea Lord Northcliffe should be resorted
to. I'VE may probably for some time to
coine see the western democracies un-
DIR the leadership Of their dictators.
Discussing in full harmony questions
regarding the command of the allied
8orces."
Ignorant Of Germany, Is Claim.
sContending that British statesmen
were astoundingly ignorant of Ger
many, DR.. Won Kuehlmann said by way
OF illustration that Lord Robert Cecil
had pinned down the British govern
unent to the story of utilization by the
0nrmans of the bodies Of the dead and
lad declared that the reported plan to
lnBtitute polygamy In Germany was
characteristic of German views and in
stitutions-
The foreign secretary then told his
hearers 1t had been said Germany had
shoTn great reserve on account OF the
fact that she had a fraudulent design
and that once German astuteness had