GERMANY'S "OLD FOX"
NEW CHANCELLOR'S 'POLICY. London, Nov. 1. Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam say-i that the Berliner Tageblatt, in a character-sketch of Dr. Hertling, the new German Chancellor, recalls his sobriquet, "Old Fox." He always pretended, like Zeus, to be above pnrty, but his five and a half years of Premiership in Bavaria have brought a great increase of power to the Centre Party. He has nlwaya been opposed to parliamentarism, Slid was not affected by the new ideas of democracy.
Nevertheless, (lie Tageblatt states, Dr Hertling has long recognised that the war must end otherwise than by annexations and indemnities.
The prospect of Chancellorship, being given to the aged Bavarian was received unfavorably by the German "ress. The proposal is regarded as an ciicvl by the Kaiser to win over the powerful Centre Party in the coming struggle with the Reichstag over the famous peace resolution, the adoption of which by Dr. Michaelis was responsible for the latter's downfall. The Socialists r.:v! Modcrate Liberals attack Hertling as a reactionary. Krupps' Rhenish organ The Rhcnisehe '\Vestfali6che Zeitung, is disploased at the appointment not being given to a Prussian.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1917, Page 5
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