The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-03

order to purchase the raw materials we need credit. If our enemies really think Germany capable of paying them as much as they say, they mus believe in the future of Germany as I believe in 1t. and it follows that they must be ready to grant credit In all business matters trust is re- quired and he who trust us will not find his trust betrayed.
 A similar relationship of mutual economic help exists between Ger
 many and the East. When there no 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 domina-
 ton by force as against ourselves
 Deputy Hoch asked me just now if 1t
 was true that the Russian Govern
 nnent had clearly and explicitly stated
 to our government that 1t was ready
 to conclude peace, that 1t had no in
 tention of leading its armies over our
 frontiers, and that It's 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 can but indicate in
 passing, entail upon the Ministry for
 Foreign Affairs many and difficult
 tasks.
 How are these tasks to be con-
 fronted with the powers at our dis
 rnSaJo ly iS oII iaf
 habit with them to withhold confi-
 dence from my Ministry. The com
 pletion of these tasks is not ren-
 dered easier thereby. l know that
 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
 have no inclination to live on the
 criticism of my predecessors. Truly the nourishnent may be abundant
 but 1t would also be indigestible I
 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 to introduce a system
 matter of districts. Each important county will have it's special expert and in this way we shall acquire body of real trained advisers who can
 undertake the entire supervision of a county.
 The Foreign Missions will have es- pecial experts allotted to them, who will study the social institutions of the country, and seek to wp the sympathy of the working classes. Hand in hand with this reform goes the reform of the staff.
 Owing to the disappearance of the dstin ction between a diplomatic and a consular career, the choice of our diplomats for the high posts is made over a wide field of candidature. J. is obviously necessary in order q. express outside our own frontiers tIt' inner political changes which Ger many has undergone, to make alter ations with regard to certain posts in neutral foreign countries.
 I should like to impress upon you
 as enphatilally as 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 building for the Foreign office. Then, too, the staff must be really well paids 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 o0r 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 etates involved in the world-wsSx whether conquerors or conquered are in equal distress. It is true that Germany has fallen low, but the injury to civilization which the war brings in its train affects as well those nations which would fain sun themselves in the rays of mili- tary victory. They have all been forced to make sacrifices of immense | national value. There is scarcely 3 | nation which will not be disappointed | by the peace which is being nego- | tiated in Paris, and this disappoint- l ment contains the seeds Of a great Qanser. 1T the war, Wnlch everywhere ] broke up the old order of things, had l encouraged anarchistic tendencies, so 1 will peace, which bring toll and want | in place of the longed-for prosperity, l encourage still further the forces of l destruction. Here is the common ! enemy, here the common task. Here l avails no recrfmination, no breeding 1 over the past.
 1 We must in union set ourselves to i work, that our children and grand l children may reap the fruits of our 1 labors. A symbol of this resolve is 1 Germans obligation to reconstruct 1 Belgium and Northern France. We l have entered into the obligation in | the full consciousness that we can | only fulfill it in the active co-opera- 1 ton with our enemies, and we de- | plore doubly that their mistrust at 1 te7npts to force fulfllment by re- l vengefu1 ilI-treatment of their Ger | man prisoners. What might be a | york of reconciliation becomes there 1 by motive for fresh hatred.
 l He who strives that the world 1 shall gain from the war a new con-