Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-23
By MACMILLAN HARDEN
Germany's Foremost Pubiicist
Special Cable to The Great Falls Tribune

| Berlin, July o2-The German re-
public faces a midsummer crisis. The
government is afraid to dissolve the
Reichstag and appeal TO the people for
! fear that more natiOnalists would be
returned. Every citizen considering
the governments tlmidity feels unsafe.
The Hamburg banker. Max Warburg.
whose brother is a partner in the
American banking firm of Kuhn. Loeb
| & Co. n supcrlativcly patriotic Ger
man who as n member of the first Ger
man peace delegation started move
ment for the rejection of the treaty.
have been so threatened that the
police have ordered him not to leave
his house
Will Give Up Home
Another banker we'll known in the
United States. Herr Denborg. former
colonial minister, has decided after re-
peated menaces to sell his house in
the Grunewald section. which has re-
ceived sinister reputation through the
murder of Rathenau 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 protec-
ton.
SITPSseInHHH. iHP IltllhItHtNi led'itt
who favored unrestricted submarine
war and annexation of Belgium,
urgently requested police protection
because he saw persons outside his
window. Still more dumbfounding
Hugh SHINES himself. who was the!
warmest nationalist throughout the
war. and even recently demonstrated
his unchanged opinions by baptiZing
ships Tirpitz. Hindenburg and Lunden-
dorff. this fearless and nervy man has
been persuaded by insistent warnings
to leave his home at Mulheimander
Ruhr. and with his entire family. move
to an isolated private house in Ber-
lin Perhaps the fact that he has
French blood has opposed any rapid
restoration of the monarchy. favOrs
an economic understanding with France
wants international peace for business
reasons and wo't supply money for a
revolution and war of re-
venge is the reason he is threatened.
But il is useless to seek motives Mil
lions of Germans are persuaded that
every republican and jew is a pacifist |
and traitor.
Large Secret Order
Thirty or forty thousand young men. |
former officers. students and high |
school boys have pledged themselves |
nto secret organization throughout |
he country biindly to carry out what !
sver they are ordered to do. They are |
pledged not to allow themselves to fall /
live into police hands. as witness the |
suicide of the two men suspected of !
Staying Rathcnu
Carrying on the campaign Of assas-
'ination they are told they are not
but are in reality execution
'rs of the secret. peoples courts"
In such an atmosphere preparations
oust be made for n general election.
While the monarchiSts are marking
very democratic leader for death, the
government is only paper laws that
annot be enforced without coercing
}avaria with a coal blockade which it
5 afraid to put into force.
To-day is Germanys crisis which
must be understood by the world. 1t
$ crisis for all humanity if the in
ectuous military monarchists are to
'e fought with other weapons that
llgh flown speeches and paper threats.
Says His Attackers Brbed
The two youths ordered to sIay me
Irst squandercd 300. 900 marks on
rink and women. then received their
riders and acted when this money was
one. Yet thousands of people through
ut Germany are inclined to excuse
hem because they supposedly acted for
lbat they thought patriotic motives.
heir arrangements were. as a matter
f fact. entirely business like.