Republican farmer., 1919-06-06
Renner Asks Allies Not To Charge
 War indemnities Against Republic
 Willing To Take Part Pre- War Debt

they must be ready to grant credit In all business matters trust is re Quired and he who trust IS will not find his trust betrayed
 A similar relationship or mutual economic help exists between Ger many and the East. When there nc longer exist any grounds for the fear that Russian industry may be en- slaved by German capital, the Ger man and the Russian peoples should consider what they have to offer to each other. It is true that before this can take place the new Russia must renounce every form of dornina- tion by force as against ourselves DeprV Hoch asked me just now if i; was U that the Russian Govern ment had clearly and explicitly stated to our government that it was ready to conclude peace. that it had no in tenion of leading it's armies over our frontiers. and that its only request was that our armies should remain within our frontiers. Such a declara- ton has not been received from the Russian Government by the German Government.
 These pressing problems of the present and the immediate future, problems which I can but indicate in passing, entail upon the Ministry for Foreign Affairs many and difficult tasks.
 How are these tasks to>,be con tronted with the powers at our dis posal? I know that it is an old chief habit with them to withhold conf- dence from my Ministry. The com pletion of these tasks is not rem -ia it is said that in the Ministry of For eign Affairs things go on always in the same old drowsy way.
 Whoever says this takes no note of the changes which have already been made or which are approaching. I have no inclination to live on the criticism of my predecessors. Truly the nourishmGrt may be abundant but it would also be indigestible. am firmly resolved to make changes.
 The first important matter is to reform of the public services. Instead of the method of division hitherto adopted, on the basis of subject mat ter I propose 10 introduce a system matter of districts. Each important county will have it's special expert and in this way we shall acquire a body of real trained advisers who car undertake the entire supervision of d county.
 The Foreign Missions will have es- pecial experts allotted to them, who will study the social institutions of the country, and seek to win the sympathy of the working classes
 Hand in hand with this reform goes the reform of the staff.
 Owing to the disappearance of the distinction between a diplomatic and a consular career, the choice of our diplomats for the high posts is made over a wide field of candi dature. It is obviously necessary in order to express outside our own frontiers the inner political changes which Ger mary has undergone, to make alter ations with regard to certain posts In neutral foreign countries.
 I should like to impress upon you as emphatically possible that the Government must be prepared to place in isolated posts of importance in foreign countries men who through their public work have won confidence at home, but that the chief necessity is always to provide experts with especial and valuable qualifica- tionS.
 The greatest obstacle to reform is. strange though it sounds. lack Of accommodation. We need new buIluiIlS TOT iIle r OTtlSn OlLlCe- n. too, the staff must be really well paid; this must be managed in spite of all economies.
 But with the best public organiza- -tions and staffing in the world no satisfactory foreign policy is possible if the springs from which we draw our powers for the Foreign Service are poisoned or dried up, if the na- ton for which we are to work de- | yours it's substance in civil strife. In spite of all, I believe in the future of Germany. All states involved in the | world-war, whether conquerors or l conquered are in equal distress. It Is | true that Germany has fallen low 1 but the injury to civilization which l the war brings in it's train affects as well those nations which would fain | sun themselves in the rays of mili- l tary victory. They have all been 1 forced to make sacrifices of immense 1 national value. There is scarcely | nation which will not be disa ppointed 1 by the peace which is being nego- | tiated in Paris, and this disappoint- l ment contains the seeds of a great | danger. If the war, which everywhere | broke up the old order of things, had i encouraged anarchistic tendencies, so | will peace, which bring toll and want l in place of the longed-for prosperity, encourage still further the forces of | destruction. Here is the common enemy, here the common task. Here i avails no recrinination, no breeding over the past.
 We must in union set ourselves to work, that our children and grand | children may reap the fruits of our labors. A symbol of this resolve Is Germans obligation to reconstruct Relgiun and Northern France We have entered into the obligation in the full consciousness that we can only fulfill it in the active co-opera- ton with our enemies, and we de- plore doubly that their mistrust at tempts to force fulfllment by re- vengeful ill-treatment of their Ger man prisoners. What might be a work of reconciliation becomes there by a motive for fresh hatred.
 He who strives that the world shall gain from the war a new con- conception of the family of nations. must seek to banish all motives of revenge and cOmpenSatiOn