Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-07-21
RADICALS CLAIM
new CHANCELLOR
The Majority "BlOC" Plans to
Continue Flight,
row OVER FOREIGN OFFICE
Rolchtag Majority to Demand That
Mlchaells Accept Their Statement OF
Peace Terms.

Peace Terms.
The new chancellor, DR.. Miohaelis,
as described In special dispatches from
Benin rs working night and day Oh his
program speech and the selection OF
new material for the Prussian imperi.
al administration.
The LolSal An"elger says the chang.
es have been co:n .'leted and the Chan.
cellor will appear IN tho reichstag &C.
oompanied by all his new colleagues.
The Tageblatt says Herr Michaelis
10 reticent on his policy.
The reichstag Is expected to adjourn
on Friday until September, first voting
the war credits almost unanimously.
Oespatches said DR.. Miohaelis
would make his maiden speech on
Thursday
A depatch from Berlin says the ma.
5ority "bloc" plans to present peace
terms in q resolution to tho reichstae
on Thursday and to demand from DR..
Michaelis q statement that he accept
1t In principle, otherwise cooperation
Is impossible. Meanwhile the execu.
ton Of this plan depends upon the
ONe0hS w "llSll VIC DUO HOlUS 10
gether.
A late edition Of the Lokal Anzeiger
asserts that the new chancellor is for
the foreign policy and peace terms ex.
pounded by Field Marshal Won linden.
burg and the pan-German camp. II
quotes conservative and national lib.
ernl members OF the relchstag who at.
tended n conference with Won Hinden.
burg, General Won Ludendorff, f1rst
Quartermaster General, and DR.. MI.
chaelis rs being most favorably i'm.
pressed with the results.
The Lokal Anzeigor asserts OF It's
own knowledge that DR.. Michaelis al.
ready has estah' 'ed relations Of alb.
splute Mnan'r I'd co.operatiou with
these military-political chieftains. The
newspaper strongly recommends to DR..
Michaelis and parliament the postpone.
mont until tho end of the war OF the
settlement Of all contentious Internal
questions. including, naturally, Prus.
sian suffrage reform, thereby properly
rehuking what 1t terms impairment in.
reference from enemy countries in the
internal German affairs and demon.
strating the harmonious unity Of the
country.
The selection of successor to the
foreign secretary, DR.. Alfred thinner.
mann, Is stbll unsettled. Pressure ia
being brought from two directions to
block the proposed nomination OF
Count Brockdorff-R antzau, the German
minister at Copenhagen, and to substi'
tute Admiral Won Hintze, minister to
Norway, or Count Won Bernstorff, for
mer ambassador to Washington.
The present minister to Christiana ia
greatly desired by pan.Germans and
advocates Of super-vigorous policy
not only on account Of his high diplo.
matte qualifications, hut chiefly on &C.
count OF his antecedents.
Apparently 1t Is felt that a former
naval officer, particularly one who
played such a prominent role at Ma.
nlaa In the events OF 1898, will offer
the necessary guarantee that the Ger.
man forlgn policy In regard to peace
negotiations will be afterwards con.
Quoted along desired energetic lines.
The emperor is said to favor Won
Hintze.
The Tageblatt. the Mittags Zeitung
and the Socialist organ Vorwaerts
unite In declaring that the candidacy
Of Admiral Won Hintze for foreign min
lister Is move Of the super-annexa
tionists.
The Tageblatt and Vorwaerts warn
DR.. Michaelis that he cannot accept
Won HintZe without compromising tho
administration with pan-German
faint. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung
(Reventlow' 8 paper) supports Won
Hintze's candidacy. /