New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
DIR. Adolph Muller Will
Clean Out k1ohenzollern
Nest of Intrigue
Envoy TO Switzerland
ConciIiafory Policy Toward
Southern States Indicated
by Honor to Bavarian
BY Elias Tobenkin
New York Tribune
Special Cqble Serctce

tconxrixl, 1919, New York Tribune Incl
BERLIN. Jan. 80. via LONDON, Feb.
APPOINTMENT of DIR. Adolph Muller,
leader Of the Bavarian Socialist party
and chief editor of the Munich Post"
As ambassador to Switzerland is taken
here 10 signify the intention OF the
Ebert government to clear out root and
branch the old Hohenzollern diplomacy
Of duplicitv and intrigue at once. Null
Ter for thirty years has been the bit
terest foe of this diplomacy, and
Switzerland throughout the war was the
chief centre OF the Ludendorff mill
tarist propaganda.
The old regime was credited with
shaving maintained 500 agents in Berne,
cooking up intrigues. DR.. Muller, it is
stated, accepted the mbassadorship
+ only when assured that he was at lib
erty TO clean out the German Embassy
at Berne.
Bavaria Getting Recognition
Aside from the bearing it has upon
. the future of German diplomacy. the
appointment of Dr. Muller, a South
German. is interpreted to mean that
Germany will have broadly federal
ized government, in which the interests
Of Bavaria and other South German
states Will be placed upon a footing of
equality with Prussia. On the other
hand, the acceptance of the post BY DR..
Muller is taken as a disclaimer of any
tendency on the part of Bavaria to
separate from the German Empire
In an interview with The Tribune cor
. respondent DR.. Muller said to-day:
my diplomacy will be thoroughly un-
! diplomatic. 1t will be based upon abso-
lutte clearness and honesty. My very
appointment is testimony that the for
mer German diplomacy is dead. That
former diplomacy was used to bolster
up the militarist faction, while | have
been lifelong opponent of militar-
ISM
DR.. Muller urged greater degree
of willingness on the part of the Allies
TO take Germany's efforts in the direc-
ton Of democratic self government
more earnestly. He said:
For thirty years the Social Demo-
cratic party OF Germany has been
democracy. Militarists could neved
have brought on the war without
raising the issue of czarism and the
threat OF 3 par-Slavic invasion. The
seeds O. democracy sown by the So
cial Democratic generation are now
bearing fruit. Plans the government
nov has under way will change the
social, economic and educational
framework Of Germany in such man
az will 1l-pp the try at Tho
head Of democratic culture and make
t pillar Of the new society of ma
tons.
But Of course German democracy
IT the moment IS hampered by want Of
food and unemployment, both caused
by the keeping up of the blockade
Made in Germany Panic Needless
The new ambassador also declared
that the fear that Germany would
food In world with chear goods after
peace is declared was entirely un-
founded.
For years to come" he said Ger
many viii need a vast amount Of pro
ductive power simply to restore the
country to normal. Our housing prob
lem is grave. There has been no new
construction in FIVE years. Existing
houses had metal hinges and locks,
copper roofs, etc, all of which were
removed for war purposes. 1t will be
necessary 10 restore these. and home
consumption Of all raw materials will
he enormous for some time,
CAS- 10 articles manufactured, es-
neciallr for export, the government
viii see that employers are not al
owed 10 make the standard of wages
q low that German manufacturers
wIl be able to nndersel the Allied
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