The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-23
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 amt- able enough. Herr Erzberger, whose Ministry for Armistice Affairs Is rap idly becoming a sinecure, found him self excluded from the Peace Dele
 gation, 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 1 reproach as he himself, and he has | encompassed the Foreign Minister
 with an overwhelming array of finan- cial, commercial, and industrial l talent.
 The Expert Advisers. Personal vendettas between second | Or third rate Ministers are not usual | ly of general interest. But the fruits 1 of the present feud are worth con ' templating. Herr Erzberger has sue ceeded in exhibiting Count Brock l dorn in very mixed company. The l Foreign Ministers five feIlow-DeIe- | gates are an average lot, but the ex- i Perts associated. with him include many of the most notorious Pan- l German armament-Kings and pro- 1 f1teers. The Krupps, Thyssens and | Henckels are absent, but. as a class, l they are amply represented by men i like Arnhold, Beukenberg, Bosch. Ha- l gen, Lubsen, Rathenau, Stausz and 1 Warburg
 l Herr Edward Arnold, an intimate 1 of the ex-Kaiser, sits on the board of 1 8 dozen of the largest financial and l industrial undertakings in Germany. 1 including Q pioneer poison-gas factory l and the most important machine-gur 1 works in the country. Doktor Bosch. 1 of the Badiscbe AniIin and Soda | Werke, Mannheim, has been the | leading poison-gas specialist through | out the war.
 Herr Beukenberg, of the Phoenix 1 Works, has already been prominent. l even among Westphalian reaction aries
 Herr Deutsch is chairman of the
 kortng Aeroplane Works at Han
 over, a director of the Berlin Gen.
 eraI Electric Go. GA. E. G.). and of
 the LindenbeNE gun-steeI works, and dS a l peace expert at the Bukarest Con- | ference
 The Cologne banker, Herr T,ouis
 Hagen, is or has been chairman or
 director of at least a score of inn | portant enterprises in Germany, Brus-
 sels Milan, Bukarest, London and
 Vancouver. His interests range from 1 armaments and aeronautics to mines 1 and submarine cables. His brother, 1 Karl. figures in about 15 concerns. in | 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 i syndicates that also helped to finance
 the heavy industrialists during the war.
 Herr von stausz, of the Deutsche
 Bank, is the great petroleum fnan-
 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
 in Rumanian oil. Herr Warburg
 holds interests in BIohm and. Voss
 the great ship-buiIding firm, and in
 the Suez Canal.
 Herr Walter Rathenau, president of the General Electric Co.,, organ
 izer of German war-industry, and would-be nationalizer of all sources of energy, needs no introduction. His minor activities are legion, both al home and abroad. As far as the So-
 cialists can comprehend him, he ap-
 proximates to their ideals more near. ly than any other modern German captain of industry.
 Half a dozen professors, a few tame trade un1onists, a Bishop, and a fe- = male deputy weigh little in the seal, against these 20 formidable fnancier. and industrialists. Nor is the weigh made up by the inclusion of Herr 5 Eduard Bernstein, who has abjureG 7 independent Socialism just in time tt travel to Versailles.
 I Some merchants say they have beeu I able to stay in business for 30 and 4