Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-28
HUN COUNCIL ASKED
TO ACT IN CRISIS
Radical Elements May Put
Ledeb0ur and Liebknecht
in Control at Berlin.
BELIEVED DOOMED
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Friday, December 81
While the government continues to
deny the existence of a crisis, devel-
opments appear to be rapidly ap-
preaching the point where the Ebert
Haase cabig aviu no longer be able
to assert i'll itlkaa,thority.--~;:-- ss,.--
= The Beelin newspapers reflect the
apprehension pervading all circles.
The vossische Zeitung. for instance,
says that the six men who sign for
the government are no longer the
government. and it Calls upon the
newly created central council of SOL
diers and workers to assume the re-
sponsibility.
Crux of Situation.
The Tageblatt declares it would be
fatal to pin hopes to the national as
Sembly as a constituent body or as
one which could repair the damage
now threatening. The Lokal Anzeiger
believes that the crux of the situation
is to be found in the struggle between
the Independent socialists and the
Spartacus group for control in order
to prevent the meeting of the ma
tional assembly. 1t points to the prob
ability of a repetition of the events
of November 9 with the result that
the radicals might constitute a new
government dominated by Georg Lede-
bour nd Dr.. Karl Liebknecht.
The Frieheit, the organ Of the in
dependent socialists. declares that the
position of the cabinet is critical and
present makeup. The Taeglische
Rundschau says it is highly uncer-
tain If Ebert and Scheidemann will
be able to save the situation for
themselves.
Of Friday night the workmen'S and
soldiers central council has been
summoned to meet with a view to
reconstructing the government in
Berlin. This report was contained in
a Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen
Berlingske Tidende.
"only Aim Is to Rebuild"
PARIS, December 81 (Havas).-
Herr Landsberg, one of the former
majority socialist members in the
German reichsteg, today made a
declaration to the correspondent of
the Temps at Bern that no thought of
revenge would ever come to the ma
jority socialists, whose only aim was
to establish order in the country and
rebuild Germany.
The members of the German gov
ernment, Herr Landsberg added. be-
lieved it would be criminal to go
against the will of the people of
Alsace-Lorraine. who had been en-
tirely estranged by the execrable
politics of the former regime in Ger
many. He said these provinces were
lost forever for Germany, and al
though it panied him very much to
say it, he must admit the fact.
Concerning the present situation in
Germany, Herr Landsberg declared
that the danger of anarchy depended
in great measure on the great ques-
ton of revictualing. He added that
bolshevism would never take root in
Germany and that military reaction
would not spread to any great extent.
Propose Federal Republic.
GENEVA. December 81 (Havas).-
cate that the present government
there is to constitute a federal re-
public on virtually the same plan as
the United States. There would be a
congress, composed of two chambers,
volkshaus, or popular chamber,
which would be the chamber of repre-
sentativeS, and a stadtenhaus, or
chamber of states. which would take
the part of a senate. The president
would be elected by the people and
would not be responsible before con-
gress. The border states would be
completely modified, the privileges of
the nobility abolished, and Germany
would annex German Austria.