Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-25
CRISIS IS FACING
GERMAN REPUBLIC,
ELECTIONS WEAR
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN
Germany's Foremost Publicist
fLeased Wire Service to The Journal.)
copyright, 1929

lCOpyrlSHI' AoAH'J
BERLIN, July 22.-The German
republic faces a midsummer crisis.
The government is afraid to dissolve
the Reichstag and appeal to the peo-
pie for the fear that more national
lists would be returned. Every citi-
zen, considering the governments
tiuaiaity, feels unsafe. The Ham
burg banker, Max Warburg. whose
brother is a partner in the Ameri-
can banking firm Of Kuhn, Loeb x
Co., a superlative patriotic Ger
man, who as member OF the 1lrst
German peace delegations started
movement for the rejection or the
treaty.. has been so threatened that
the police have ordered him not TO
leave his house.
Another banker well known In the
United States, Herr Dernburg, form
ar colonial minister, has decided
after repeated menaces to sell MS
house in the Grunewald section
which has received a sinister repu'
tation through the murder of Rath-
nau and the attack upon myself
Two editors whose names figured on
the murder list found by the police
have fled from Berlin with false
passports, under police protection
Strezemann, the monarchist lead
or who favored unrestricted SUBJ
marine warfare and annexation OF
! Belgium, I gently requested ponce
-,nrotection because he saw suspicious
persons outside Of his window. Sui
more dumbfounding, SHINES him.
self, who was the warmest natlon'
alist throughout the war and even
recently demonstrated his unchanged
opinions by baptizing ships T1rpltz'
Hindenberg and Ludendorff. TINS
fearless and nerveless man, has been
persuaGed by insistent warnings 70
leave his home at Mulheimander,
.Ruhr, and, with his entire f-mliy'
move to an isolated private house
in Berlin. Perhaps the fact that
he has French blood, has opposed
any rapid restoration of the mon
archy: favors an economic .ltente
with ce; wants international
peace for business reasons and won't
supply money for a counter-reVolu-
ntion and a war Of revenge is the
reaso nhe is threatened. But 1t is
useless to seek motive. Millions of
Germans are persuaded that every
republican is a pacifist and every
jew a traitor.
Secret Organization.
Thirty or forty thousand young
men, former officers, students and
high school boys have pledged them
selves in a secret organization
throughout the country blindly to
carry out whatever they are ordered
to do. They are pledged not to al
low themselves to fall alive into po-
lice hands as witness the suicide OF
the two men suspected of the STAY
ing Of Rathenau.
In carrying on the campaign OF
assassination they are told they are
not murderers but are, in reality,
executioners of judgments OF the Sc
cret peoples court" In such an
atmosphere preparations must be
made for a general election. While
the monarchists are marking every
democratic leader for death the
government issue only paper men
aces of laws that cannot be enforced
without coercing Bavaria with
coal blockade which it is afraid to
put into force.
That today is Germany's crisis
which must be understood by the
world. 1t is crisis for all human
ity if the infectious military mon.
archism is to be fought with other
weapons than high flown speeches
and paper threats.
The two youths ordered to slay me
first squandered $4,000 marks on
drinking and women, then received
other funds, and only acted when
this money was gone. Yet thousands
of people throughout Germany are
inclined to excuse them because
they supposedly acted for what
they thought patriotic motives.
Their arrangements were, as mat
ter of fact, entirely business like.
The intermediary who received the
order from Munich telegraphed
them:
Financially Low
"If everything is in order you can
have more at your disposal. Other
wise not as we are financially en-
barrassed. Get through with it and
we can breathe again. l consider
the present time-three days after
Rathenau's assassination-particu.
larly favorable. Good luck"
The principal criminal. Anker-
man, was corps student lieuten-
int who had received the iron cross,
first class, married. The police
supposed he had hidden among
certain class in Berlin but neverthe-
less Immediately after the deed he
went to the headquarters Of the
German national party and asked
for one Dryander, son of the i'm
perial court chaplain. Finding him
out he crudely told Count York, II
have just killed Harden and must
get away quickly. I have come for
he necessary money" York him
self informed the police of this.
Among the other consp1rators are
ilsemann and Mueldner, blood 'rela.
ions of two gentlemen high in favor
of the two Wilhelms of Doom and
SNiorinoor