Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-06
BY HENRY W.. BUM.
-%HE following is a brief sum
mary OF the most important
news Of the world for the seven
days ended February 5:
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(,ermany.-Tt seems to me or quite
REGULAR importance that the Demo
cratic party refused participation IN
rr Marx's new Bourgeois bloc cab
t.. Thouoh one of the smaller
no rites II includes more good pontlcai
Reads than any other party: II 40
therefore dangerous in opposition. inc
.,oyarnment's Reichstag~@ majority Is
S,,t a urecarious one. 1t Is saio 10
10 or,v %. including the n members
- tha. Economic Union, which group,
refrsing to participate In the govern.
rent has only professionally engaged
tn a,,nport It. DIR. Wirth, the former
chancellor and a scarcely less esteem
"a Azure than Marx, has Temporarily
seeded from the Centrist party anu
vigorously opposes the government
The Likelihood is conceded that con,
siderable section of the Centris. group
in the Reichstag will follow MN ilieo
opposition upon any $ reac'ioiiai
move by the government.
The hold of power or the new sos-
eminent is thus seen TO De precaTI'
ere and would seem dependent on
,n.,a,tv Of the Nationalist to the
,s,eares given, by them as the condi-
tim az their admission to participa-
tion therein: as of adhesion to the
ranuhlic. to the League OF Nations
md ia the Locarno pacts; OF repuDl-.
"a nizatior Of the army by breaking
a.. contacts with associations disloyai
- the republic and by provision Tor
sts rpcr,,itnent from loyal elements
on,v. and of effort toward rapprocne.
meY1t with France 'as the means Oh
Kidding the remaining servi.uoes.
Though no doubt the French VIII as
NAV certain aloofness penang SUP
stantial evidence of Nanonanst gooo
Faith If indeed the Nationalist repre-.
sa,,tStives are men. of perfect good
faith their admission to participation
in the government will. one supposes,
in due course be noted as happy
deyeiopment because OF giving the
ouset,,s to proper doubts as TO the
security of the republic.
There's something bewildering, up
s,fie.down. unreal, about the idea In
view of the Nationaists' record, out
some astute observers this long time
mast assured us that the Nationanst
leaders had ceased to be monarchist
at heart, but dissembled their love
for the republic in consideration or
their constituents.
no conclude. a certain suspension
of Judgment would seem to be the
ticket"
Apparently the Germans yielded
almost completely to the allies on the
issue of the manufacture, export ana
import of war material. A compro.
mise agreement has now been reached
on that other vexed issue Of the Ger.
man fortifications dn the vicinities OF
Kuestrin and Koenigsberg in Brandon
burg. of Glogau In Prussian Silesia,
and of Loetzen In East Prussial over
, against the Polish frontiers. AS re-
ported, the German yielding In this
compromise Is also very great. We
are told that Germany has agreed to
maintenance of a 50-kilometer I'M
fortified zone on her frontiers. march
ing with Poland, to destroy all forti-
fications within that zone and all other
Notifications or extensions of pre-
yious1y existing works on her eastern
frontiers constructed since 1920. and,
such destruction effected, solemnly to
declare that no secret Notifications
exist and that no. other Notifications
will be constructed, except as author
tied by the league commission which
Is henceforth. 70 supervise German
armament --.m..--.,-.