Evening star., 1923-12-16
GERMANY NOW LOOKS
FOR A NEW BISMARCK
Nationalism Is Increasing-War of Seces-
sion Is Discounted-New Leader
Must Be Democratic.

Separation must not be confused. as I
lear Marcel Ray has done, with Ger
man nationaltsm. The enormoHs ma
nifty years behind Bisinarck's life task
or welding the various German states
INTO one great union-state-the Ger
many OF pre-war remembrance has
been powerfully fortified by the eco
nomlc expansion of the empire, even
into promising colonial dominion dur
ing Bismarck's chancellorship. The
well known policy Of Cardinal Richelieu
and Louis XIV, of the Emperor Napo-
leon CEho erected Bavaria into king
dom. as counterW weight against Prus-
sial and of Napoleon Ill. to divide the
north from the southern German states,
will find no hacker in present day Ger
many. The interests Of dynasties, pow
erful as they still are, in the mind OF
such a conservative people as the Teu-
tons, nor the interests of caste, or the
interests of the mighty industrialists,
and of material wealth, will no longer
prevail against the growing nationalism
of Germany.
No German SecessfOn-War.
One does not need to be a prophet
to foresee that the internal travail
under hich Germany now labors,
seeking TO bring forth German Lin
coln,-a modernized Bismarck, per-
haps-must ultimately go toward
the strengthening of the historic evo-
luton in that direction of the po-
litical development Of the German
history since Frederick the Great.
After the German revolution of 1S4S,
and from that time to 1914, the re-
adjustment of the map Of central
Europe went towards d free, more
democratic, unified Germany. This
process had already been started,
when Bismarck, practically "a dark
horse" at that time, began to take a
part in the politics Of his native state.
Prussia. Karl Marx GS1S-S3) Ger
man Jew of remarkable scholarly at
tainments, began to PROFOUND his
first MARKHAM generaliZations, and
otherwise the dominant liberal ideas
of the nineteenth century found their
way through the German lands, as
through all the lands OF Europe. 4
system of revolutionary outbreaks
round about 1S4S had overthrown the
Orleans monarchy and established
what was called, IA second republic in
France (1S4S52). The north of Italy
was in nationalistic turmoil, out of
which the great statesman, Cavour
would presently rise, TO begin the
work of "Risorgiments" and unifica-
tion of modern Italy. Hungary, after
the Italian states stood up against
Austria, and the Poles in Posen
against the Prussians. Even Pope
Plus IN was in flight from the repub-
licans in the city of Rome. 1t was
then that Bismarck appeared in
Prussia.
Look for MOdernized Bismarck.
From his retirement in Schonhau-
sen, where after his marriage he had
settled down as a country squire, Bis
wave of revolution which in the
year 1S4S moved in series of con-
centric circles over the face of Eu-
rope. This great disturbance it was
that made Louis Napoleon president
of the French Republic, Cavour and
Bismarck, respectively. the great
statesmen of their countries. Sew
eral names have already been put
forard as possible "BismarckS" OF
the present timeS-albeit that the
German situation is very much more
precarious than in 1S4S, or even after
the German conquest by Napoleon ].
DR.. Stressemann alleged recently
that: Nobody will deny that the de-
velopment of internal German con-
ditions is driving toward radical ten
denotes. Communism in Germany de-
riveS its strongest support from the
misery breaking in on us. and the
radicalism of the extreme right
builds its support under the national
opposition we are now experiencing
from Fra attitude"
If we remember, what the Berlin gov
ernment stands for, the despair sounding
in the StreSsemann statement, seems TO
be genuine enough. AS a we'll known
author had il, speaking of the German
revolution OF 1S4S: Profound doubts
of the system of government and OF the
liberties of many forms of property in
the economic system spread through
out the social body" So it is again to-
day.
New and Old Ideas.
After the greatest and most disor-
ganzing war in history, it still will be
impossible to estimate the power and
range of the accumulated new ideas of
these seventy-five years since the last
German revolution. Bismarck, SO says
his biographer. could regard the whole
democratic movement in the German
lands as SO much midsummer madness,
and throughout remained faithful to
monarchical authority as the one thing
needful for the Prussian state The
moderniZed new Bismarck will have to
be democrat, even if a monarchiSt
"Prussians we are and Prussians we
will remain as was Bismarck's motto
is quite impossible today: it will have
to be: Germans We are. Something
modern, as was the alderman parla-
ment Of 1S4S, the diet of Frankfort
combined with German house of rep
resentatives. And particularly should
the spirit Of blood and iron forever
be absent in the new German leader
The spirit of Cincinnatus should prevail.