Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-07-17
FRENCH PRESS IS
SCEPTICAL OVER
Ne VI CHANCELLOR

iubilant, while other editors treat the
event soberly. All are agreed that it
indicates a crisis in Germany of I'M
precedented Importance
The phrase "scrap of paper" fire.
ouently crops out in comment ana
some of the journals trace the chan
cellorship's downfall back to that
early-fn-the-war utterance. The Petit
Parisien is not optimistic, for 1t
says:
Though the chancellorship changes,
the German masters remain the same.
1t is they and not the retiring func-
tionary who desired the war, to salts
fv their appetite for universal domin-
alton. In what measure may they have
changed their minds, and are they ca
paleb of speaking now for peace?
Just such measure as they realize
that defeat is approaching in such
measure as the intolerable sufferings
of their hungry peoples are growing.
Why lie Was DISMISSED.
FSBethmann-Hollweg is being dis
missed because of his declarations and
mistakes at the beginning OF the war
but his successor will be no less bound
by his acts and words than was this
docile functionary who never dare dto
take the initiative. He who gets his
portfolio will inherit his burden and
the same insurmountable difficulties. :"
LIE Journal says:
"The chancellor was so accustomed
to let things be that he seems to be
surprised to find himself at the bot
tom fthe abyss. His famous excla-
nation, scrap of paper echoes like
cry of distress. 1t seems he had
foreseen the catastrophe"
|. In view of L'Homme Enchaine, the
chancellor's retirement marks the be-
ginning of a tragic era for Germany.
1t pictures an immense gulf yawning
beneath the feet of the great militar-
lied nation, and terms the chancellor
man of straw
The Action Franchise says that the
chancellor's departure indicates the
depth to which the Germans have de-
seconded in their spirit of violence and
ambition.
Finished By "Serap of Paper"
Libre PADDLE says: 1.-The scrap of
paper has finished by strangling
Bethmann- Hollweg Liberated long
ago by the war party, the chancellor
made a supreme effort to hook up
with the peace party. The latter has
rejected him because it considered him
compromising.
The Gaulois concludes its rather bio
graphical article with the words:
And there is the war machine, long
oiled and FURNISHED, no longer run
ming as it had been expected it would;
and there in the reichstag itself are
tactless men demanding that the prom
ises of the government be not treated
by him Bethmann-Hollweg) like
scraps of paper There was terrible
fatefulness in these words, and fin
ally the day approaches when this
simple little scrap of paper tossed on
the one side of the scale is beginning
to weigh all by itself more than the
entire credit of Germany"
Nearly all these newspapers COM
ment on the singlar coincidence that
DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollweg's career
as chancellor ended on an anniversary
Of the day it began--uly Ia.
The Temps in an editorial on the
retirement of Won Bethmann-H ollweg
and the appointment Of Or. Michaelis
as imperial German chancellor says
"A functionary replaces function
airy. A place cut out for a leader re-
mains entrusted to the performer of
another's will"
Michaelis Superior to HOllweg.
The Temps thinks Dr. Michaelis SUI
perior to his predecessor on two
points-he has been successful and has
character. His success has been shown
in his position as food commissioner;
his character is shown by his speech
last March in the Prussian chamber,
from which The Temps quotes the fol-
lowing:
"No one shall make me swerve.
would not accept an Office which would
be but an edgelss sword
Won -Hollweg's fall, &C
cording to The Temps, was under
unanimous depreciation due to con-
Trajectory motives.
1.-THE greater part of Germany,
wishing neace" continues the paDer