BANNED IN BERLIN

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13937, 16 July 1919, Page 2

BANNED IN BERLIN

Marble bugts, ■ ipaJihitingis, litho-gn.-ia.plis, and chromes, calculated to i keep green the meanOTies of the dei throned Hohemzollems, ore to b© removed from public - adananiisitiiaibio.n > toualdlings, "(schools,amd cither ■■; iprettnases in 'Berlin, as ai result oftiLe ; resolution. a'doipted; by tihe ' ihutodciipal ! council. " ' !' '■' '"■■■■•'■' ''"'"'■'' '' ' ' | The debate- on,' the'mKjtionj; introduced by bath. ■'SbdlaliLsitio-': factions, evoked a sharp /protest <• fiwwni botir- : geois parties aigakust. tlhe -pToposefl icoraociLasm, ; especaally as Qvef Mfiigl- '■ i«tra>te Werirmifch, comta-airy to e»peotaitionisi, aounioivun/ced Ms ■w'illing'nctsis to • accede to the Radical's wishes, «le- ' ciairiTigi tihiarti tb© walls oi' publio buildings eihoaild omly be adorned' with > symibols d the provaiilinp aiutlioiriity of k. tihe .Stlaite instead of those by-gone • rulers. He begged-the.couxicil to re- • ipose sufficiient coaifideiice 'in> his ability to perfoirm an eTnibain-assing dully with; needed delicacy and tacit. Tii^ D©nno<;tt'<aitao deputiieisi atitemipted '* rto ishiamie the Radicals by tellim,;' ■ them 1 that eivefn- the Fremoh refused to stoop so low a,si to reoniov© tha likeneissies of the Bourboms and thaib Napoleom's tomib was stiill a revei*e»l shrine. ! Justi tto What eoctiont the 1 retsolultii'oni affects the lomg - rows of marbled Hohenzolieirnig which flank both sides «f the Avetniuie of Viabory, in, the Tiengiairteni, is >a miaittef ;of oomjecitlui'e.. i —..—*——_