Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18
GERMAN LEADERS
GET ALL j. S. NEWS
Comments of American
Statesmen Forwarded to
Them Promptly.
By the Associated Press.

oS thG AscOtldtSQ
BERLIN. January 1S.-Every time
that President Coolidge. Dawes, Ksl-
logg, Mellon or Borah issue a public
announcement, there is unusual &C
tivity in the press division of the Ger.
man foreign Office on Wilhelmstrasse.
1t is because there is a standing or
der in the department that press re-
ports of the utterances by these Amer
lean statemen should Immediately be
brought to the attention of President
Won Hindenburg and the other men,
bers of the government.
The manner in which these pro-
nouncements as well as other news
paper facts are communicated to the
German leaders is as different in each
case as 1t is interesting. Take the
Marx cabinet as an instance.
Hindenburg Likes Comics. ~
President Won Hindenburg reads few
newspapers aside from a daily from
his home town. Hanover. The al.
gest of the worlds news is communi-
Gated to him orally each day at IL
am. by the chief OF the governments
press bureau, DIR. Zechlin.
Zechlin goes at his job from a Jour.
nalistic point of view-that is. he mar
rates the news in the order of its i'm.
portance. Following the news come.
the leading cartoons of the day and
newspaper jokes on persons in the
public hmelight. The soldier-presiden
enjoys this feature of the daily report
immensely, and it is reported that
Zechlin has become a favorite of the
president by his judicious selection of
humorous material.
The president also receives a daily
press report on military matters. Sol
der that he is, he watches the min
istry Of defense with keener interest
than any other government depart.
ment.
Marx Read Germania.
Chancellor Marx confined his read.
ing of newspapers chiefly to the Gar.
mania, the Berlin daily organ OF the
Center party. and the Koelnische.
Volkszeitung, Cologne organ OF the
Center party for the Rhineland The
chancellor is a native of Cologne.
DR.. Marx also received a daily digest
or news from the press division. In
MS case, however, interest conferred
particularly in the provincial press.
AS the political head of the country,
ne was anxious to know what the folk
out in the country thought.
Foreign Minister Stresemann was
tAiC AiOSL dIuHIL newspaper Fea0er IN =
the cabinet. He personally perused
about dozen newspapers daily and
then rang up the government press
division to make sure he had not over
looked anything. He particularly de-
sired to know what leading foreign
journals had to say. Several transla-
tors We're accordingly kept busy, put
ting together comments and items
from the world press.
Gessler Immune to Comment,
In contrast to DIR. Stresemann, the
minister OF defense, DIR. Otto Gessler.
would tell everybody who cared to
hear 1t that he never read any news
paper. If he did, he claimed, he would
soon jar his nerves at reading all the
attacks TO which his department was
constantly subjected. When one
watched Gessler in the Reichstag.
however, as he answered the attacks
OF the opposition. one was inclined to
think that Somehow he found out.
after all, what the press said about
him.
The minister of the interior. DR..
wilhelm Kuelz, personally went
through the leading Berlin dailies
each day and marked for closer read.
ing whatever items especially inter
ested him. These were then cut ont
by his secretaries and given him fol.
perusal whenever he had a few mo-
ments' time.