New-York tribune., 1921-06-30
irtll and Foes
Mobilizingg for
Bitter Conflict
Chancellor's Supporters As
sert Germany's Future
Depends on Outcome of
Political Fight in Fall
Enemies Against Allies
Denounce Conciliatory Pol
icy, Demand Treaty of
Versailles Be Revised
specia, Cable to The Tribune

BERLIN, June 29.--The forces be-
hind the Wirth government. as well as
those of the opposition, are mobilizing
for an inevitable political conflict. On
the outcome of the clash, according to
an obviously inspired article in the
Chancellor's party newspaper, Ger
mania, will depend Germany's future.
The leaders in the Forthcoming fight
will be Dr. Wirth on one side and Carl
Helfferich and DR.. Gustav Stresemann
on the other. The latter two are stag
ing preliminary skirm1shes before the
Foreign Affairs Committee of the
Reichstag in its discussions of inter
pellations which the conservatives will
make regarding Upper Silesia and the
lifting of the Allied sanctions on the
Rhine. Chancellor Wirth is expected
to appear before the committee and
answer the fire of his two leading
adversaries.
The Deutsche Tageszeitung, the ex-
treme Nationalist organ, and Germania
express the two points of view in
volved in the battle. The controversy
81 far is being waged in committee
rooms and in party caucuses, but it is
bound to be brought out into the open
soon, where the people may possibly be
called upon to give final decision.
The Tageszeitung throws down the
conservative gauntlet to DIR. Wirth,
openly demanding the revision Of the
Treaty of Versailles and the abandon
ment of the Chancellor's policy of con-
ciliation. The newspaper says:
Germany can never rise until, in
stead of continually yielding to pres
sure of our enemies, she begins to op-
pose the foes violations of right, and
regardless of the consequences, speaks
an emphatic NOT The policy of con-
stant surrender will some day lead to
terrible explosion, which will spring
from the depths Of the German peo-
pie. The politicians who are behind
the policy of constant yielding will
achieve results quite different from
those at which they are aiming. Our
slogan must be the complete revision
of the Treaty of Versailles. We must
not rest until this aim has been
reached"
Germania, undoubtedly speaking the
Chancellor's mind, charges that the
opposition is mobilizing for an as
sault, the object of which is to over
throw the Wirth government, tear up
Germany's acceptance of the recent
Allied ultimatum and throw Germany
into what the newspaper refers to as
"a new catastrophe" .
The paper asserts that the nation
alists are playing demagogue game,
preparing to fight the Chancellor on
the taxation question, (which is closely
terms of the Allied ultimatum. 1t says
that the conservatives Are seeking to
utilize every objection that can be
found to arouse sentiment against the
present governments heavier tax plan,
in order to throw the country into a
general election in which the conserva-
tives would hope to regain control of
the government. Germania warns, how
ever, that the Chancellor means to
fight, saying:
"The government must oppose this
command and we believe that the
Chancellor possesses the qualifications
necessary for this task
Asserting that Dr.. Wirth's policy
has already been demonstrated to be
right by the Improvement in Germany's
international and internal situation,
,Germania continues:
"This peaceful development for the
good is threatened not only by the
Communists but is opposed also by
Helfferich and his conferees, who are
seeking to destroy the Centrist party
with demagogic propaganda because
the party declines to follow reaction
airy policy. Any German government
in the present situation would be com
PEELED to put heavy financial burdens
on the shoulders of the people, nc
matter by what name these burdens
are called. He who seeks to deny this
deserves the name of deceiver. Why
then, these new threats? Why this
new catastrophe policy?
The last ten years have proved tha,
such policy can bring nothing but
misfortune. We must continue to trave
| the road of toll and sacrifice which al
| ready has brought US considerable
| success. We must reject the dema
goguery of the Right and Left, which
will never bring us salvation
The season of party conventions il
now in full swing. The Peoples party
state meeting has demonstrated its de
termination to fight Chancellor Wirth
The Democrat caucus brought out tha
with few exceptions the members O.
that party will continue to suppor
| him.
A great congress of all German
Catholics has been called to meet soon
probably to consider the political at
titude of the Catholics, who are tn,
backbone of the Centrist group. TIL,
Forthcoming conventions of the indie
pendent Socialist and Social Demo
cratic parties, it is hoped, will AGAR
unite these two factions.
September and October will see. will
the reconvening of the Reichstag afte,
the summer recess, the unveiling o-
| the political and social battle that i.
| developing now behind the scenes. Or
one side will be the German People.
Party, the Nationalists, with she'll
heavy industrial interests, and tn,
Agrarian junkers, who persistently re
fuse to believe that they lost the wal
and who blame Germany's defeat OF
| the revolution. On the other will b,
Germany's Catholics, the Centrist part,
and the Catholic unions, the Socialists
the German Trade Union Federation
and the bourgeois Democrats.
The Indications are that the battle viii
be to decide whether Germany shal
continue her efforts toward peaceful
rehabilitation or be thrown into civi
war. The struggle promises to be ever,
bit as important as Bismarck's fight fo,,
a united and strong Germany.
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