New Britain herald., 1918-12-04
Where's Where in German Revolution

(Uncle Dudley in Boston Globe.)
 The German revolution is of ne- cessity a thing of shreds and patches It is no wonder the dispatches paint the map of Germany varying shades of red-from Bolshevk in Hamburg to republican in Bavaria-for the German map Is itself a thing of shreds and patches.
 We of this generation are accus- toned to think of Germany as a na- ton Yet it's 25 states (of 26, count ing Alsace-Lorraine) were not united into an empire until five years be- fore America celebrated it's tooth an niversary of national life. Of old Germany was the most sectionally di- vided section of Europe. No less than 300 states set up their petty sover- eighties.
 German unity was achieved by the success of Prussian arms. By con- quest of her neighbors, German and non- German, and by enlisting her German neighbors in fresh conquests. Prussia consolidated the Empire, and 10 it added the cement of 18th cen tury machine ine-induStria1iSm.
 Yet each of the 25 German states had. and has. it's intensely local tra-
 
 back over the centuries on bridges of dialect, custom, religion, architec- ture, music. literature . A Saxon is a Saxon first and a German after ward A Kentuckan is an American first, and a Kentuckian afterward. The German states are older than the German nation. The American na- ton is older than all rut 3 of the American states.
 The Imperial government falls, rev. olution bursts into flame But as the German nation is now headless, it is not one revolution but a score Each state is obliged to have it's own revolt. The dethronement of the King of Prussia, who happened also to be Emperor of Germany, does not automatically dethrone the Kings of Bavaria and SaEony. That is 8 job for Bavarians and Saxons, and they naturally have their own ways of doing it.
 Geoeraphically. the main split in Germany is between north and south between Prussia and her annexations on the one hand, and Saxony, Bava- ria, Baden and Wurttemberg on the other. Indeed. it was not until 1871 that south Germany definitely cast in it's lot with PruSSla, and then only under military compulsion. Before that it had sided with Germanic Aus tria, had fought with her against Prussia in 1866 and to that former preference it is now showing signs of a disposition to return
 Prior to 1914 many a Saxon could refer to the "Preussliche Schweine as feeHngly as a Belgian after 1914.
 In religion. too, this Mason and Dixon line divides Germany. broadly speaking, into a Protestant North and a Catholic South.
 Thus since the torpedo of defeat has punctured the hull of the Ger man Empire, the floods of revolution cannot fill the hold at one sweep, but must find their way from compart- ment to compartm ent and these they are filling, for the present, unequally.
 IT was different in the French Rev olution Of 17S9 and the Russian Rev. olution of 1917 Each of those au- tocracies was highly centralized. Each of those countries had centuries of national unity behind it. Both were so accustomed to be ruled from capital that a relatively small faction capturing the capital. captured the government, and so the nation.
 Tn Germany. by contrast the mere fact of the Berlin Soviet being Prus-