New Britain herald., 1927-01-13
GERMANY KEEPS
 TABS ON SPEECHES
Cabinet FoloVs American
 Comments Closely

Berlin, Jan. 13.-(R1Every time that President Coolidge, Dawes. Kel- logg. Mellon. or Borah issue a pub lie pronouncement, there is unusual activity in the press division of the German Foreign office on Wilhelm strasse.
 It is because there Is a standing order in the department that press reports of the utterances by these American statesmen should immedi- ately be brought to the attention Of President von Hindenburg and the ether members of the government
 The manner in which these pro- nouncements as we'll as other news paper facts are communicated to the German leaders Is as different in each case as it is interesting. Take the Marx cabinet as an instance.
 Hindenburg Likes Comics
 President von Hindenburg reads but few newspapers aside from . daily from his home town. Hanover. The digest of the worlds news is communicated to him orally each day at ii a. m. by the chief of the governments press bureau, Dr.. zechlin.
 Zechlin goes at his job from a journalistic point of view. that Is, he narrates the news in the order of its importance. Following the news come the leading cartoons of the day and newspaper jokes on persons in the public li.nelight. The soldier president enjoys this feature of the daily report immensely. and 1t is re- ported that Zechlin has become a favorite of the president by his iudicious selection of humorous ma terial.
 The president also receives daily press report on military matters. Soldier that he Is, he watches the ministry of defense with keener in- terest than any other governmental department.
 Marx Read Germania
 Chancellor Marx confined his reading of newspapers chiefly to the Germania, the Berlin daily organ of the Center party. and the Koelnische yolkszeitung. Cologne organ of the Center party for the 'Rhineland. The chancellor is a native of Cologne. Dr. Marx also received daily di- gest of news from the press division. In his case, however, interest center ed particularly in the provincial press. As the political head of the country. he was anxious to know what the folk out in the country thought.
 Foreign Minister Stresemann was the most ardent newspaper reader tn the cabinet. He personally perused about . dozen newspapers daily and then rang up the government press division to make sure he had not overlooked anything. He particularly desired to know what leading for eign journals had to say. Several tronslators were accordingly kept busy, putting together comments and items from the world press.
 Gessler Immune to Comment
 In contrast to Dr. Stresemann, the minister Of defense, Dr. Otto Cess Ter. would tell everybody who cared to hear 1t that he never read any newspaper. If he did. he claimed, he would soon jar his nerves at reading all the attacks to which his depart ment 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 preas said about him.
 The minister of the interior, Dr. Wilhelm Kuelz, personally went through the leading Berlin dailies each day and marked for closer reading whatever items espe- cially interested him. These were then cut out by his secretaries and given him for perusal whenever he had . few moments time.