The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-26
Ludendorff Now Claims
 He Was Not a Dictator
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the empire. The imperial chancellor. von Bethmann-H Hollweg, paid Us visit at Posen in the autumn of 1914, and again in February. 1915, at Lotzen. The other chancellers also came to see us often.
 REICHSTA6 GOT NO SECRETS
 Sometimes ye had visits from mem bers of ReicBtag. 1 always had the impression tat these gentlemen en- joyed being with us. whatever party they belongel to. Towards them and other privat individuals l naturally observed tn necessary discretion in speaking ofthe military situation and of my ideas Pn the subject of peace.
 Representatives of industry, com merce, and he employers and work mems unios came occasionally and sat at our i.ble.
 Neutral Hillary attaches and mili- tary missihs who were visiting the front, Gerrhn and foreign reporters, representatives, of the press, scientists and artist all visited us at various times.
 At the able of the commander -in- chief in tb east representatives from all parts of east and west Prussia were partiularly frequent visitors.
 Many 1inces were our guests at various tines,
 4 visitErom His Majesty the Em- peror wal of course, a special honor. Even thh conversation was unre- strained, md we felt that His Majesty liked to with us.
 was Particularly pleased to have guests a meals, because it gave me an opporinity of bringing up various questionsthat required discussion. In this wayI saved time later for other military uties.
 Exchanges between army and other suerior Commanders also took place dring particularly prolonged periods bf fighting, more especially if thinE were going against us. Such peods imposed terrible ner- vous stain on them. Worn-out corps headquarters were replaced by others. The chnge was awkward, but it's drawbacs were not insuperable. Com plete amy headquarters could not be relievedas this would have caused too much dlocation in every direction, especially in the work of supply. The only reredy was to relieve individuals. The difficulties involved were the lesser evil of he two.
 DID NG WANT TO REMOVE MEN
 Occasionally, at the suggestion of generalheadquarters army command CTS anditheir chiefs of staff were re- lieved, .khen we could be reasonably certain hat neither the command nor the trops would suffer from the change. In a war of this duration certain loss of energy in individual cases wss inevitable. To our great satisfaction, however, such cases were rarity
 It isIalways a most difficult task to dealwith them, and, however con- scientic,s one wishes to be, it is in- possibll to perform it at all without inflictig hardship, and even an in &iusticeat times. As far as possible accepts any counter-suggest put forwar, but if our cause suffered thereby incurred blame of which no one coId relieve me.
 Far-raching plans to absorb the Baltic irovinces for Germany and to Prussaiize Alsace-Lorraine are re- vealed ly Ludendorff tomorrow. He intended to send the German soldiers into thse lands, giving them choice property and making of them a sort of gentry which could be relied upto to ielp in future expansions of the Ho- henzolleh empire.
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