Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
SECOND BISMARCK,
Won BUEL0W, DIES
Former German Chancellor,
80, Once "Broke Pride
of Wilhelm"
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press
ROME, october 28-Prince Bernhard
Won Buelow, former chancellor of the
German empire, once called Germany's
second Bismarck" died at $50 am.
today at the villa left him by his wife,
the former Italian Princess Maria Bee
cadella di Bologna, with whom he
eloped in 1886 He was 80 years old.
The prince had been i'll for several
tracted a heavy cold last week that his
condition was regarded as serious. He
had been weakened with grief at his
wife's death last January.
Prince Won Buelow was former AM
bassador to Italy and held other dip
lomatic posts in Europe. In 1900 he
was made chancellor, and subsequently
was put often to appearances before the
Reichstag In defense of the Emperor.
He was said, after an interview by
the Emperor with the London Daily
Telegraph, in October, 1908, to have
broken Wilhelms pride, demanding and
receiving from him promise to cur
tail the royal tongue. He retired from
the CHARACTERISTIC in 1909.
War Appeal Recalled.
When the war started, in 1914, Won
Buelow issued an appeal to all Ger
mans to defend" the fatherland.
few days later his brother was killed
in the fighting before Liege, Belgium.
In December of that year Won Buelow
went to Rome as German Ambassador,
a post he had filled years before. With
in a month he was reported to have
spent 100000 in a pro-German pub
licity campaign to keep Italy out OF
the war and was charged with attempt
ing to overthrow the Salandra ministry.
Upon Italys declaration of war on
Austria in May, 1915, Won Buelow left
Rome with his staff and returned to
Berlin. For the next two years or more
his name was mentioned in connection
with various peace overtureS by the
central powers Just before the col
lapse of Germany Won Buelow was adj
vocated for a return to the chancellor
ship by the Conservatives and Centrists,
but was stoutly opposed by the Social
lists. In November, 1918, the former
Emperor having fed to Holland, Won
Buelow issued an appeal to the people
to recall the fugitive. The revolution
which followed made the once famous
premier a refugee himself.
Won Buelow's residence In SwitZer-
land was beclouded in 1919 at the trial
in Zurich of % alleged pro-German
royalist revolutioniSts and dynamite
plotters when he was accused in court
of being the brains" of the conspiracy
to restore the Hohenzollern monarchy.
One of the alleged archplotters was
Won Buelow's private secretary. When
the former chancellor was accused by
DR.. Enderli, Swiss Socialist deputy, OF
completely in the conspiracy the prince
sued him for libel and the SWISS grano
council returned a finding in favor OF
the man who made the charges. Short
Iv afterward it was announced that
Won Beulow would be appointed per-
manent Ambassador to Italy by the
German government. Plans had been
made for his arrival in Rome when 1t
was published there that his presence
was undesirable, whereupon he re-
manned in Switzerland.
Antagonized War Chancellor.
Prince Won Buelow was bitter critic
Of DR. Won Bethmann- Hollweg, the war
chancellor. He denied that the decla-
ration of war was inevitable In
sketching his own career as chancellor
he told how he was able TO avoid war
and said that Won Bethmann- HollWeg
lacked political art" A..
During the grave weeks before the
conflict" he wrote, serious psycnoiogl-
cal, diplomatic and political mistakes
were made by Germanys political lead
ers. which were unjustly attributed 10
the people" In the early stages OF the
war Won BueloW made several enorS
to bring about peace when 1t was seen
the central powers could not win.
When he was sent to Rome IN 1914
by the former Emperor he succeeded IN
delaying for months Italy's declaration
of war on Austria Called to SWitZer-
land. ostensibly by the illness of his
wife, he paid frequent visits to a mon
astery in. the Canton of Grigioni,
where a number of Jesuits OF German
origin were stationed. It was later. re-
vealed that the object of Won Buelows
trips were to instruct the monks TO act
in concert in petitioning the Pope 10
take steps to bring about peace. Won
Buelow visited other monasteries lor
this purpose.
II was while he was first Ambassador
to Rome in 1897 that the former En-
peror ordered his appointment as sec
retary of state for foreign affairs. In
this post he became chiefly responsible
for the policy of German colonial ex-
pansion. In 1899, upon telephonlng 10
Berlin his success in concluding
treaty with Spain whereby Germany
acquired the Caroline Islands, Won Bue-
low received over the wire the reply
that the Emperor had made him
count. On the resignation Of Prince
Hohenlohe, in 1900, Won Buelow sue
ceeded him as chancellor In 1905, when
he had caused the downfall OF the French
foreign minister, Theophile Delcasse,
by checking France from further en-
croachments in Morocco. the then En-
peror rewarded him with the title of
prince las token of my gratitude for
your services to my dynasty and en-
pire." One of the best remembered in
cidents of Prince Won Buelows power
behind the throne, previously referrd to,
was his triumph in 1903 in curbing the
impulsiye utterances of William II. 1t
was precipitated when the London
Telegraph published an interview in
which the former Emperor was credited,
among other indiscreet things, with
having said that majority of the Ger,
man nennle were hostile to Great