Evening star., 1922-07-23
BY MACMILLAN HARDEN.
Germany's Foremost Publicist.

By Special Cable Dispatch to The Star. Copy
| right, 1922.
| BERLIN. July 22.-The German re-
public faces q midsummer crisis.
The government is afraid to dissolve
the reichstag and appeal to the people
be returned. Every citizen. consider
uasafe.
The Hamburg banker, Max War
| burg, whose brother Is partner IN
the American banking firm Of Kuhn.
Loeb & Co.. a superlatively patriotic
German, who as member Of the nrst
German peace delegation started
movement for the rejection OF tne
treaty. has been so threatened that
the police have ordered him not 70
leave his house and to forego an m
tention OF reading q financial essay
before an expert group; Anotnes
banker we'll known in the Unlteo
States, Herr Dernburg. former COLO
nial minister. has decided. after re-
the Grunewald section. which has re-
ceived a sinister reputation through
the murder Of Rathenau and the at
tack upon myself. Two editors whose
names figured on the murder nse
found by the police have ned from
Berlin with false passports uhoer w
lice protection.
| Urges Police Protection.
| Stresemann. the monarchist leader,
Iwho favored unrestricted submarine
warfare and annexation of Belgium
urgently requested police protectlon
because he saw suspicious persons
outside of his windows. Sun more
ldumfounding. SHINES himseiI. Wno
Twas the warmest nationalist through
out the war. and even recently dem
onstrated his unchanged opinions by
baptizing the ships Tirpitz, Hinden-
burg and Ludendorf-thisfe fearless and
lnerveless man has been persuaded oy
linsistent warnings to leave his home
at Mulheimander Ruhr and with MS
entire family move to an isolated prl-
3vate house in Berlin. Perhaps tne
Ifact that he has French blood. mas
Iopposed any rapid restoration OF the
monarchy, favors an economic entente
with France, wants international
peace for business reasons and won
isupply money for a counter-revolu-
It;on and a war of revenge Is the rea-
son he is threatened. But 1t is use
less to seek motives. Millions OF Ger
tmans are persuaded that every repup-
Ilican is a pacifst and every Jew
traitor.
Thirty or forty thousand young men
jfcrmer officers. students and high
lschool boys have pledged themselves
in a secret organization throughot'
1.-The country blindly to carry out what
ever they are ordered to do. They
are pledged not to allow themselves
Ito fall alive into police hands. as wit
lness the suicide of the two men sus-
lpected of the staying Of Rathenau.
In carrying on the campaign OF as,
lsassination they are told they are not
lmurderers. but are in reality execu.
TONERS Of judgments OF the secret
l"people's court" In such an atmos-
iphere preparations must be made for
a general election. While the mon
archists are marking every demo-
cratic leader for death. the govern :
ment issues only paper menaces OF
laws that cannot be enforced without
coercing Bavaria with a coal block
ade. which it is afraid to put into
force.
| That today is Germany's crisis,
which must be understood by the
world. 1t is a crisis for all humanity
liz the infectious military monarchism
Is to be fought with other weapons
than highfiown 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