Evening star., 1929-11-17
The Story the Week Has Told

touches on the draft of the proposed
new constitution is postponed to next
year. A new plan of action" is limited
at: interpreted by some as importing
drastic departure from the constitu-
tional scheme as so far formulated.
At a dinner of bigwigs of the Patri-
otto Union (the new party formed by
him which bears distant Hispanic re-
Semblance to the Italian Fascist Party)
he unwontedly gives himself loose,
almost In Hercules vein; there Is even
suggestion of the indomitable one. a
Mussolinian bouquet. When the bull
lets begin to sing" observes his excel
lency, vi feel in my element. I am
braced for action. You gentlemen of
the Patriotic Union must take a more
prominent part in the life of the nation,
because peacefulness and cordtality are
being mistaken for weakness and slack
ness However satisfactory the progress
the dictatorship has made toward ma
terial rehabilitation and development,
too little advance has been made to-
ward Cancellation. In view of the de-
velopments, fear that the abdication
Of my functions, which I had happily
contemplated for the near future, must
be indefinitely postponed. Alas! The
fruit is not yet ripe; caciquismo Is not
yet extinct"
THOSE are IlOJ IIlc uICIdUOI cAdCJ
words, but such is the gist of them, as /
interpret from the meager dispatches.
II is rumored that the Patriotic
Union and the Somatent tan old form
of provincial militia revived on ma
tional basis and constituting a body
bearing some resemblance to the Fascist
militia) are to be reorganized OH stricter
lines; or. If you please, along Fascist
lines
GERMANY. Y.-Referendu of the Glib
erty BILL" which proposes rejection of
the Young plan, will be held Decem-
ber %,
/ stated last week that Helmuth Al
brecht had been appointed minister Of
economics in succession to DR.. Julius
Curtius, transferred to the foreign min
istry. The report on which the state
ment was founded was incorrect. The
new minister of economics is DR.. Paul
Molldenhauer, professor of insurance at
Cologne University and leader in the
Peoples Party, holding views close to
those of the lamented Stresemann. He
is a member of the executive board OF
the German dye trust.
The following Is little belated:
Prince Bernhardt Won Buelow. one
time chancellor of the German Empire,
is dead at 80.
He had been for the most part prac-
tically in retirement for 20 years. He
was an imperialist but not a Swash-
buckler; though a loyal subject on a
famous occasion as chancellor he dared
to rebuke the emperor. 1t is significant
that shortly after doing so he found it
expedient to retire to private life. In
his Imperial Germany" he freely
criticized his countrymen, but his asser-
ton that they are Mot politically
minded" was more striking than true.
He had manners and charm, was
citizen of the world. His admirers are
apt to say that, had he been at the
helm in 1914, the hideous catastrophe
of that year would not have occurred
1t is perhaps more correct to say that
the fact that men of his type were
relegated to the background was sig
nificant of the inevitability of the
catastrophe.
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CHINA.-An allegedly oficial dis
patch of the 9th instant. from Tai
yuan. Yen's capital In Shansi, declared