Republican farmer., 1919-04-25
Hun Peace Delegation Is
 Composed Mainly Of Big Leaders Of Armament Interest

The Big Six are very small fry in-
 deed compared with almost any half
 dozen among the attendant experts.
 The reason for this disparity is ami
 able enough. Herr Erzberger, wbesA
 Ministry for Arrnistice Affairs IS rsp- Idly becoming sinecure, fouEss- s774a- self excluded from the Peace Dele
 gaton, chiefly because he refused to | subordinate himself to his colleague
 for Foreign Affairs and because at
 Treves he had made economic con
 sessions without taking expert ad-
 vice.
 But if Herr Erzberger is prevented
 from going to Versailles, he has
 taken care that Count .Brockdorff
 shall not be exposed to the same reproach as he himself, and he has
 encompassed the Foreign Minister
 with an overwhelming array of fnan- cial, commercial, and industrial
 talent.
 The Expert Advisers.
 Personal vendettas between seccrd
 Or third rate Ministers are not rs,1aI-
 " of general interest. But the fruits
 or the present feud are worth con- templating. Herr Erzberger has s,1c-
 ceeded in exhibiting Count Brock dorn in very mixed company. The F Foreign Ministers five feIlow-ne1A-
 Bates are an average lot. but the ex- Pefts associated with him include many of the most notorious Pan- | German armament-Kings and oro- hteers. The Krupps, Thyssens. and Henckels are absent, but, as a class. they are amply represented by men
 like Arnhold, Beukenberg. Bosch, Ha- gen Lubsen, Rathenau, Stausz and Warburg.
 Herr Edward Arnold, an intimate Of the ex-Kaiser. sits on the hoard o9
 a dozen of the largest dnanciaI and industrial undertakings in Germany. including 8 pioneer poison-gas factory
 and the most important n1achine-gur l works in the country. Doktor Bosch. 1 Of the Badische Anilin and Soda i Werke, Mannheim, has been the | leading poison-gas specialist through | out the war.
 Herr Beukenberg, of the Phoenix | works, has already been prominent, | even among WestphaIian reaction | aries
 1 Herr Deutsch is chairman of the
 korting AeropIane Works at Han 1 over, a director of the Berlin Gen. l eraI Electric Co. GA. E. O., and of i the Lindenberg gun-steeI works, and | he has had previous experience as a i peace expert at the Bukarest Con- i ference.
 The Cologne banker, Herr Louis l Hagen, is CT has been chairman or ] director of at least a score of inn l portant enterprises in Germany, Brus- ] sels, Milan, Bukarest, London and 1 Vancouver. His interests range from 1 armaments and aeronautics to mines l and submarine cables. His brother. i Karl figures in about 15 concerns. in 1 cluding the Gelsenkirchen Mining Co, | the Orient Bank, the National Bank 1 for Germany, and a, number of spec
 ialized war industries. Herr Haardt, of Lennep. is on the | board of the great Barmen bank ] syndicates that also helped to finance 1 the heavy industriausts during the
 war.
 Herr von stausz. of the Deutsche | Bank, is the great petroleum finan- 1 cier, with large interests before the war in London and other Allied cen
 tres He acted as petroleum delegate ] for Germany at Bukarest. | Herr Heineken, of the North Ger
 man Lloyd is also actively interested l in Rumanian oil Herr warburg i holds interests in BIohm and Voss | the great ship-buiIding firm, and in 1 the Suez Canal.
 1 Herr Walter Rathenau. president 1 of the General Electric Co.,. organ l izer of German war-industry, and | wouId-be nationaIizer of all sources i of energy, needs no introduction. His 1 minor activities are legion, both at l home and abroad. As far as the So- ] ciaIists can comprehend him. he ap- l proximates to their ideals more near l ly than any other modern German l captain of industry.
 | Half a dozen professors, a, few tame trade unionists, a Bishop and fe- 1 male deputy weigh little in the scale | against these 20 formidable financiers and industrialists. Nor is the weight made up by the inclusion of Her l Eduard Bernstein, who has abjured | independent Socialism just in time to 1 travel 10 Versailles.