The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-11
BERNS7ORFF SLATED
Former Ambassador to United
States May Take Post Of
Foreign Minister
HOLLWEGG'S LOSSES
SUPPORT, OF LEADERS
Peace Party Growing in Strength
As Economic Pressure In.
,creases

Creases
Copenhagen, July ii (Delayed.)-A
dispatch from Berlin to the Cologne
Gazette says the retirement of Minis.
ters Helferich and Zimmerman will
be gazetted Tuesday. According to
the Tageblatt the crown council is
reported to have developed an almost
irreconciliable difference OF opinion
between DR.. Won .Bethmann Hollwegg
and a majority of Prussian ministers
on questions of internal political re-
form. .,. .y .. r..
Hernstorff Mentioned. " p
Count Won Bernstorff, former Ger.
man ambassador at Washington, is
mentioned in the lobby Of the reich
stag as candidate to succeed Zim.
mermann in case of his retirement.
The name of DR.. w. S. Zolf, colonial
secretary is also mentioned: .t,
The debate in the reichstag main
|eommittee vest W eeeordtng to 10
ports received here, was opened by
DR.. G. Stresemann, national liberal,
with sharp attack on Chancellor
von Bethmann Hollwegg's policy, par
ticularly that of foreign affairs, which
he characterized as being based on no
definite consistent program; The
chancellor replied by saying he was
forced to look to all sides for support
because the reichstag offers no stable
majority. Give him this and he would
be able to develop consistent pro-
gram. ~. r.
The Vossische Zeitung adds that the
chancellor expressed readiness and
willingness to carry through neces-
sary internal reforms. -, A,
Dualism Must Cease.
Herr David, socialist, painted pic.
ture of the difficult internal situation
in Germany He declared that the
existing dualism between the govern
ment and the people must cease.
Afternoon papers yesterday gener-
ally assumed that an agreement Of all
parties, except conservatives and OK.
treme socialists, had been reached by
joint declaration to- the ,reichstage on
peace terms and !, internal O., reforms.
This It u.s., said, would contain . re-
iteration of the chancell0r's announce
ment of August, 1914, that Germapy's
purpose in the war was. not conquest
but defense, and independence of ter.
ritorial integrity, expressing readi.
ness to conclude peace on that basis
with a provision readjusting all de-
signs aiming at economic boycott and
of international hostility
after the war.
The declaration, according to re-
ports, would also cover the formation
of a coalition ministry with all parties
and immediate reform of the Prussiap
franc hise.
The national liberals. however, Ut
q meeting in the evening, rejected the
peaca pact of the resolution. Tho
whole matter, therefore, is IN doubt
again.
Washington, July 11.-Germany's
latest political difficulties are regard
ed by officials here as due largely to
problems and probably Of q
transitory nature only.
The dismissal of Foreign Secretary
Minister Of Finance He'll
ferich or even Chancellor Won Beth
mann Hollwegg would be considered
largely surface movement, for not
until the great army general star it.
l., Sc h0li0vA6 will thA
real crust of German militarism be
broken.
The German foreign Office, 1t was
pointed out today, has served during
the war merely as means to get the
leaders out Of trouble
American officials agree with allied
diplomats here that many Of the Ger
man officials who picture so largely
IN the news are in fact puppets being
pulled across the stage as blind to
he German people.
Their rise or fall, they say, has lit.
le significance on Germany's military
md foreign policies Nevertheless,
he German peace party is very active
md general opposition to the unrep,
esentative form of government has
.entered attention to the extreme
,ower of the junker and Pan-Amert
ans who are being held increasingly
for the ills of the coun-
ry.
Austria's influence is becoming ,
more and more insistent for a liberal il
,eace. Austria is said to be treated
most contemptuously by German ON
ials.