Evening star., 1923-09-30
BY HENRY W. BUM.

tn HE following is a brief summary of
the most important news of the
world for the seven days ended Sep
tember 20.
Great Britain.-Lord Morley is dead at the
age of eighty-four. He was one of the most
considerable figures in British politics from 1888,
when he entered parliament, until 1914, when
at the outbreak of the great war, he resigned
office as. lord president of the council in dis
approval of Britain's entry into the war. His
satisfactory explanation for this act one of
the most singular in British history. Nor will
1t be easy to excuse his behavior on the occa-
sion of Gladstone's retirement, in giving his
decisive voice against Sir William Harcourt
tary of state for India he inaugurated that
experiment etn in representatiye government for
ing and crucial. He more important as
an writer liter than ,a as a statesman OF his writings
monographs on Voltaire Rosseau, Diderot and
the encyclopedias Burke and Walpole.
X X x
Germnny.-on September 26 Chancellor
Stresemann issued a proclamation announcing
the end of passive resistance to the Franco
Belgian occupation. The next day he formally
notified the allied ambassadors of this action,
and he published decree resembling all pas
sive resistance orders.
The tone of the proclamation is not alto
gether reassuring. 1t contains a violent indict-
ment of the occupation as against right and
of violence" etc. 1t seems to intimate (but
in language that appears to me of a studied
Vagueness} that real peace and the resump-
tion of negotiations with view to a definite
settlement must depend on the release of the
Germans held prisoners by the occupying au-
thorities, and the return of the exiles "It de-
pends on the powers which have invaded our
territory and on their allies whether (by re-
leasing the prisoners and allowing those ex-
pelled to return) to give peace Germany,
or TO oring about by restoration of this peace
all of the consequences which would ensue
with respect to the relations between peoples"
The common Characterization of the German
surrender as unconditional" seems incorrect
IN view or the above, in which certain critics
discover a veiled threat well as propa-
gandist plea; This manner of speech, however.
posture of affairs DIR. Stresemann may CON
slider. and perhaps rightly, that face saving
than conciliation of Poincare.
And then the fun began On the 26th the
Bavarian council of ministers appointed
Kahr Che who organized the einwohnerwehr
now happily defunct and unquestionably
ardent monarchist) general commissioner for
Bavaria, ie., dictator, with full powers, at the
same time denouncing the Versailles treaty.
Won Kahr modestly began operations by sus-
pending the constitutional guarantees. News
of this business reached Stresemann in the
early hours of the next morning. He woke
up President Ebert and obtained his signature.
to decree proc aiming an emergency situa-
and conferring on Minister of Defense Gessler
dictatorial powers Gessler delegated these
and thus the reichswehr commander in Ba-
vara became boss of the show there, outrank-
ing Won Kahr Not that only Gessler and the
reichswehr COMMUNICATIVE chief Gen. Won
Seeckt, are two very canny persons. Weeks
age foreseeng trouble a in Bavaria they put
ordered the greater part of the Bavarian reich
swehr contingent to Wuerttemburg for maneu-
vers where they still are. and ordered to Ba-
varia to replace them temporarily, about twice
their number of refchswehr troops from Saxony
and Thuringia, men not less anti-monarchist
than the Bavarans monarchist. Getting
wind of this dirty trick" the Bavarian chiefs