The sun., 1918-07-11
Dr.. Won Kuehlm aims Resi- gna ion

The resignation Of the German For
eign Minister, DIR. RICHARD Won KtHL-
MANN, and Its acceptance by the Kali
ser, which Berlin now officially an
nounces. Is more than n mere success
for the military party and the Junk
ers. 1t Is an evidence Of the ease
with which mllitarism controls the
German Government, its ability to
lift into power man who may serve
it and remove one who may oppose
its interests.
DIR. Won KtHLMANN had moved
rather serenely in the tangle Of Ger
man politics until his speech in the
Reichstng on June "a. In this ad-
dress he said:
in view of the magnitude of this war
and the number Of Powers. including
those from overseas. that are engaged.
It's end can hardly be expected through
purely military decisions alone and with
out recourse to diplomatic negotiations
The temerity of young man to
assume that the German armies might
not win the war or that recourse must
eventually be had to diplomacy was
an objectionable offence to the Ger
man General Staff, the Prussian
Junkers and all the degrees Of Pan.
Germanism. At the time Of the
Franco-Prussian war BISMARCK spoke
in much the same spirit as KtHL-
MANN did. He made lifelong enc
mics of VoN MoLTKE, VoS RooN and
other German Generals. The army
made the peace, and while 1t could
not Gust BISMARCK 1t OVERRIDE his
diplomacy and left his final over
throw to the militaristic young EN-.
peror WILLIAM.
His Reichstag speech was not the
only grievance OF milltnrism against
Dr. KuHLMANN. He Is charged with
Interfering with the negotiations of
General HoFMANN ut the Brest-Li-
tovsk peace conference. But for this
interference, it is held, the army
would have the whole of western Rus
sia and all the Baltic provinces so
bound to Germany that there could be
no question regarding their complete
absorption by Germany after the war.
Besides, DIR. KtHLMANN was inclined
to expressions Of leniency regarding
annexation and indemrities. When
he took the post of Foreign Minister
he was fresh from Constantiuople,
where his mission had been to win
the Turks to the war and to keep
them In It, 1t was here, perhaps,
that he had absorbed sufficient Of
that Oriental sophistry to make those
talks of his appear as peace overtures
while in reality they were merely in
genious subterfuges TO conceal Ger
many's intentions. The allied ma
tons saw through his trickery; II he
fooled any one 1t was the German
people. To believe that his retention
in Office would have opened the way
to an earlier peace is unquestionably
n mistake. His peace offensives were
Mt the best only intrigues Of the Gov
eminent to afford paclfists and peace
at any price advocates grounds for
demanding the statement Of peace
terms from the Allies.
Two men have been suggested as
Won KtHLMANN's successor, ALBERT
BALM and Admiral Won HINTzE.
Herr BALLIN Is one of Germany 3
successful financiers who before the
war was much interested in the ex-
tension Of Germany's foreign trade.
His most recent utterance was a
speech at Hamburg advocating the
breaking of Berlin's control over the
German trade and the taking Of i'm
mediate steps to restore the country's
industries Admiral Won HINTzE Is u
strong defender Of Admiral TIRpITz
and is apparently the openly avowed
choice of Pan-Germanism He has
figured during his diplomatic service
so prominently in intrigues against
this country in Mexico and IN in
trigues against the Allies In China tina
even Pan-Germanlsm may doubt the
ACCESSIBILITY Of his selection. 1t may
consider Herr BALM. even though
he may be somewhat mild advocate