Evening star., 1924-04-06

for a monarchlcal form OIL
~ Il government constitutional
though it. may be.
In the eyes of the most influential
elements of Germany the republic
has faiIed-has barely muddled
through difficult situations and, by
| international agreements and muss-
| ing internal questions, retarding a
! restored, progressive Germany.
| The. center party, headed by DR..
| Gustav Stresemann and Hugo Stin-
nes, with the national peoples and
German peoples parties, have shown
their teeth to the present democratic
| rule. A return to lone People, One
Land, One kaiser,-'' is the watchword
of the moment. Instead of being
| fouted 1t has flabbergasted the So
cialists and democrats and in every
| quarter of Germany the adherents of
! the nationalists and centerists are
/ gaining firm support The socialists,
dominating element of the republic,
| profess to discount the rapid strides
| now being made by the nationalist
| elements who would go as far as TO
return the former Greman Crown
Prince Frederick William to the
| throne, but with constitutional limi
! tations. But advices from Germany
indicate that notwithstanding this
| apparent Indifference to the renew
| ed and vigorous activity of the ma
| tionalists and industrialists, who in
reality hold the economic fate of Ger
many in the hollow of their hands, is
| feigned- Already there is -Nisioned
such progress for the right that in
| the forthcoming reiehstag elections
there will be seated enough support
ers of the nationalist creed to DOM
mate in every respect. This would be
| but the first step in throwing the
country into the hands of a ma
tionalistic dictatorship from which
would come a restoration of the old
monarchial order.
| Much Is at stake.
| lnasmuch as all future agreements
| with allied powers depend upon a
| sympathetic German government, it
| may be said truthfully that the fate
of Europe for the next twenty years
| depends upon decisions wrought in
| the German elections in May. For it
| is well known that the very founda-
| ton stone of nationalistic creed is
resistance to the treaty of Versailles
| and the blocking of agreements with
| the allies which in anywise inflict
upon Germany burdens which, the
| nationalists declare, Germany in her
present state cannot bear. =.
The nationalist movement has lain
dormant ever since the kaiser, in
ignominy, fed to Holland when the
German armies broke down on the
| western front and began their trek
from France to points east of the
Rhine. The natonalists, knowing
that they could achieve nothing by
| maintaining control of the govern
ment,. offered no great resistance to
the formation of a republic through
the medium of the socialists and left
parties Neither did they try to
block adoption of the Weimar con-
, stitution. For, they argued, would
not a republican rule make it-appeaz
to allied nations that Germany had
| had a change of heart and that pre-
-
| be supplanted by an era of democracy
and compliance to allied dictates?
Furthermore, there was much bitter
ness in Germany following the war
against the regime and leaders that
had brought Germany to her catas-
tophic position.
Ready for New Order.
German people were ready for a new
order. Had that new order made greater
progress in adjusting the problems of
the nation, had that new order set Ger
many On her feet or had fought for the
better protection of German interests in
International counseis, then the people
might have been content But. as a
matter, of fact, the natonalists point out,
and they are not far wrong, Germany
has fioundered without definite policy.
without decision in vital questions of in
ternal adjustment as well as in foreign
affairs. AS a result of the apparent
lack of all-wise leadership, economic,
social and financial conditions in Ger
many today are far from what they
once were. Justly or unjustly, people of
Germany compare the era of advance
previous to the war with present un-