NEW GERMAN CABINET.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1918, Page 7

NEW GERMAN CABINET.

llfHO ARE THBYt A «wro*poiMieEt •»!» boa been cloaely liie .curiu of events in UerJ3.tbj( iiU suit w tlie Kvening tost tlic contributed article on the personnel of tiie ucw (iermaa Cabinet:—

Xiie head of tie Cabinet is Herr En6ertr"(aV present). He is described in t» j cattes as a master tailor, of Berlin. Wittcrle'i illuminating work on the members of the Reichstag knows him not Or. Sarolea now refers to him in iai review of tie members of the various "gronps" of the. Reichstag, and though Witterle was a member of the Reichstag for 16 \ ears,, representing Alsace until tie outbreak of war, he does not consider him worth mentioning. Perhaps ike policy which introduced BethmannHoK ? a nonentitj is at the back of *fcis appointment.

Herr Hsaae, who has been allowed Ailing the - war to make bombastic speeches in the Reichstag against the Hofcenxolferns, and who has had those speeches telegraphed roShd the world by the Qohenzvlleru, is without doubt and unquestionably a Fan-German, and has not been locked up like Dittman or Ließknecht, and because his speeches were used to give to the world the right oi free speech in the German Parliament He has been made Minister of Foreign Affairs. This is clearly farcical Herr SchiedemflTii, the next in order, k, according to i j Avannti of Rome, the Kaiser's lackey. He is the "arbiter of fashion' of the Reichstag, and noted iv.' ilia curled beard, his 'brilliant waistcoats, and oil sumptuous ties. He calls himself a Socialist, but is described by Wittertt as the ineffable Schtidemann Be was used by the Military Party during the war. on many occasions, and is pliable and responsive to the Pan-Ger-mans, and has a taste for rank and infinential relations. _ rr Herr Dittman is, I believe, a genuike Socialist, and be is probably the man who. was imprisoned for his plain speak-tn-i tftd recently released. It must be remembered, however, that he was au:3n; the 111 Socialists who voted the war credit in 19M and did not repudiate the violation of Belgian neutrality. Herr Landberg, who been made Mini'ter of Publicity and the Fine Arts, is a nonentity. Wcrr T?»rth. who has been made ister of Social Policy, whatever that niM!i«. is a Marxian Socialist who has repudiated revolutionary method*. Tn the Second Edition of Saturday's Evening Post we read with amazement aid mcredulitv the n?ws that Herr ErzNrsrer :••") TTcrr will also enter th« Cabinet if this is true—and «m? mu«t always preface one's remarks w-"ft an "iP wben ttat news come 3 from Germany—then it would seem that the Cabinet is "camouflage." '

Tfcere ar» no two men in Oermany to- £*■■ v'ho more folly represent the reactionary JnnWs and the Kav=er than «jd ' Dembpr'?. Thev are t;.pi-.aHy. tfmnian. in th»ij ideas, ami meu w\;o bare proved themselves Germpa to the finger-tips. Befrrre the war Weber. Siwhn, and JTertlin?. the i>rti=ans of the rally of the •>~tre to Pan-Oerraani'm made war for KrrSerrrer. It was Erzbenrer who. in 1!>17. la ..tb« B» s cb«tu9. «aid: "In 1005 we t,i--«ed a unique opportunity of finU'in- xv'th France, then completed dis-a-xed." Knhoreer is a convinced and d«*erm'red of Tmnerialtam, ard v»j described bv T>r. LiebJcnecht as a nui without convictions but with nVntr of appetite.

MsttVas Erebenrer was a teacher of WnrteTW?. who was first known in the ar.t : -dii<*3l movement. He soon saw tk«t the Centre afforded better opoortunitties than the nomocracy. "A daVs notice," «V 3 Witterle, ,- he tnrned his coat." ' A prciigions worker, with an extraordinary memory, be noon made himself felt. He brons'it about the dislohrtkm of the Keichstag in 1906, and conquered Dernberg. vfio was Secretary of State, through his dominant personnKtir and force of character. He aspires to'he head- of the German Colonial Administration— whatever that to-dar. F? had made a huge fortune in sp*"eul?.t;on. Hi» opponents *ay he will end by cnmproTv'ip? himself, and SVitt<"T'e »a<! that in the Vrreinsbank smash *tA the smash >rf th« l?,-al E*tnte Agent .T-hn he <.v C .,t -■] h- t'-« -Wn of his teeth. He has no noV'l" of fcel'ng: he is I""*. rnHe 3»!.l >'n ■'—»rinjr. During rt» present war h- ' '■•■ been to Italy as an ■— id Ta= - * u success.

. MnTW-Fnlda i« t'ip only man who has Wn s'l? to i"e !•'•« and no one knows ho*v he '?* i tM* no'ver. T can on'v em* ""fl short sketch by «STiT>": r. '?n*=a or .1 fv-hei'le-TH-iM tT"'w» fn <K<l with Erzber"rr. Dr. TVtiV'T". t'"» other cabled addit'ATi to W>p (jowalViT Cab■Tii'f «-!io «Sr>rnt9rv nf Sfnfe of rVe V.vnr»:n» ,- s a r , h»l™>r of th? Ho»r*nTAl,rn nn 4 ahvvs ht>« 'von. W ; th tfcn-n fr»v .intoa ,V|i mHV lx» hotter iMe ti> S»*W? vWVnr ~r r.r,'- H„. pr,y Clbin«* is a genuine of a new order.