Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1925, Page 22

. GERMANY TOO COWED IN SPIRIT TO DREAM OF REINEWAL OF WAR People Passive to Present Order and Only Striking Events Can Stir Up A nything New—DLoss of Ebert Great for Future of Nation. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. Ry Cable to The Star. BERLIN, March 5.—What final" im- pression have you of Germany? This question has been asked so many times at the close of a little less | than a month in Berlin. My final tained in training and odd guns con- can have no bearing; not merely incapable also of op- ealed, the: that German ting France, but posing & Polish or Czech Invasion Offensives Are Unlikely. THE -EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1925. 1y compromised fn recent scandals and needed the housecleaning and the honest and efficient leadership which Ebert would have furnished. Now there 18 no promise of any such, for Breltscheit and Lobe, its most “con- splouous leaders, have mefther of them the requisite qualities. As a consequence the Soclalists may suffer at the -next elaction. Thelr loss would certainly benefit the Nationallsts. It would be a mistake, however, to re- gard the death of Ebert as opening any more immediate or perhaps | eventual prospect of the restoration | of the monarchy. To attempt such restoration now would be to precipi- tate bloodshed and the attempt might easily fail. Moreover, ‘Chanoellor Luther, who is acting President, is generally recognized as a steady, level-headed executive, loyally com- mitted to the maintenance of the re- question also cuts some figure in Ger- man politics. Nevertheless Marx i quite'as convinced a Republican as is Luther, and his choice would do much to quiet’ foreign' apprehensions of a royalist _restoration, apprehensions which on the, whole have little im- mediate foundation. It is undenlable that in recent ‘Wweeks there been .something™ of & shift toward the Nationallst in Germany, explicable largely, perh by the faflure of the allies to leave ihe Cologne zone as was expected, as the treaty of Versallles provided. The long delay in the publication of the report of the military commission which contains the statement of the German violation of the disarma- ment propositions of the treaty of Versailles, violations which consti- tute a basis for delay in evacuation, has had a bad domestlc effect; and if easily the outstanding figure; place leaves a great gap: The work. of cgusolidating the re. public will be ‘e diMcult withoat him, but theére {8 as I have said, no indication {hat’ it will mot o ‘Moreover,.the man who next to Ebert had the publfc confidence—namely, Luther—Is chancellor of the Reich ‘and for the moment acting President. (Copyright, 1925, by the McClure Newrpaper "~ Byndicate.) Sent to Texas. Lieut. Col. Fred H. Bloomhard:, Army Medical €orps, who bas just completed a tour of duty in‘the Philippines, has been assigned to duty with _the 315th Medical Regiment. 90th Diyision, Organized Reserves, at San Antonio, Tex. his GHURCH SYNOD HELD | “UNLAWFULLY CALLED Judge Denies Right of Group, De- clared Backed by Soviet, to Take ' Title to Colorado Edifice. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., March 5.—The Greek Catholic Church of the Trans- figuration of Christ was found to have “neither the title to nor the right to possess” the Russian Ortho- dox Greek Catholic Church in Globe- ville, a suburb, by District Judge C. C. Butler here Tuésday, in dectding in favor of the Rev. W. A. Bogul- slavasky, in a sult brought against him for ppssession of the church property. Judge Butler held that the conven- tion of the Greek Catholic Church of the Transfiguration of Christ, held in 1923, was not lawfully convoked or held; that the synod that purported to appoint John 8. Kedrovsky as arch- bishop of the diocese of North Ameri- ca w not the lawful synod of the Russlan Orthodox Church, He held that the deed to the local propert: given by Kedrovsky to the plaintiff’ church was vold and con- veyed no title. Attorncys said that decisfon meant that the local church property will not be under control of a church which is sald to be controlled by the Soviet government in Russia. ECONOMIC WAR IS ENDED. PARIS, March —The economic war between France and Portugal, which lasted two years, with serlous consequences to both countries, ended yesterday, when Premier Herriot and Minister of Commerce Raynaldy and Dr. Antonio Fonseca, Portuguese minister to France, signed a commer- cfal modus vivendi, which will be op- erative until the end of the present yea France concedes to Portugal faeil- itles for the {mportation of Portu- guese wines into France, and in re- turn obtains a special privilege for the Importation of automobiles into Portugal Tn the matter of moral disarmament, |the German is much harder to fathom, but frankly there is nothing to sug- gest that even if moral disarmament is not complete or even approximately |complete, that fact can have any pres- 1em importance. In my judgment,|new evidence, for when his body was when the matter of the Rhine evacu- | brought at midnight from the hospital is settled, as it probably will| where he died to the President's counter | he in the next few months, and the |palace, the streets for more than a lution coming from Monarchists |evacuation of the Ruhr and Cologne |mile were lined with thousands of ing to restore a King. On the [zone takes place, the German is far|young Republicans, wearing the re- side bolshevism have been scoteh- [ more Ikely to relapse into his own [publican colors, carrving torches, seiz- W in the domestic area. The utter |domestic problems and troubles than |ing the occasion to demonstrate the de- ‘“ollapse of the Soviet experiment in [to concentrate upon foreign, politl-|votion which they had for the German cow has left the German prole- | cal offensives republic. tariat with few Hilusions. In sum, my impression of German| A more impressive, astonishing psychology is that of a beaten people, | spectacle than this procession of the % Base Hope on Loans. consclous of heir own present weak-|body borne on a hearse still decorated | A8 I have said, the loss of Ebert restore the monarch ness, of the fact that this weakness | with the royal crown passing through |1S to be measured in terms of what unmistakably, new f wil continue indefinitely, suspicious of | the Brandenburger gate on between | Ne might have been able to contribute Ltion, fresh occupation of Ger- | their neighbors' purposes, fearful that | lines of torches flaring In the dark. |!o the later establishment of the re- Lerritory, indefinite postpone- |they are to be destroved, nervous. not | ness, it would be hard to conceive. public on a firm, enduring basis, and he clearing of the Rhine- |a little shellshocked. They do mot in| Of Ebert's service to Germany all |his enemles and the enemies of the lan I Ruhr: it would mean &n |any measure suggest the German of |but the extreme Nationalist news: |republic do not in all cases even try '3 of all prospects of foreign loans, | war-time conception in allled coun- | papers speak in glowing terms. It i |t0 conceal thelr rejoicing. For the wnd the Germans are basing most of | tries. They do not seem likely to be|realized that he saved the country |lasf weeks of his life he had been their of recovery economically | formidable for any time which is cal- | trom bolshevism in the critical revo- | harried by a kind of legal persecu- upon clement. Thus the influ- |culable. Nor have I any impresslon | lutionary days: that, sprung as he |tion directed toward discrediting him industrialists, which | that even secretly they have any wish | was from the humblest circles, he had | With the public, efforts which made isive, would inevitably | for new confiicts. nevertheless maintained the dignity [No real progress and were really hiew monarchist pulseh R Tl | of his great office, and constituted a | ridiculous in their character, but did To return to the old days of brief e G o | solid bulwark for Republican ideas. [contribute to the bad physical condi- revolution, to undertake to set up death of President Ebert de- | The jmmediate political consequences |tion in which he faced a fatal op- ome Soviet machine, would mean for u"‘l"‘\'*x! H:"'mh:v'r:»mc”r‘;;:'x‘bn:ndarxml:)s,u( his death remaln obscure. rr:v;_l(;n. o Vsl he workingmen, who are < {auast; causploNons The man most frequently mentioned ‘oday there is an appalling lack o :‘;,,,,.,,_.r:(;'f,:,_:’.: x,.U-’\, e e"“.fx‘-‘.’i 1 well prove the heaviest Dlow the |us his successor 15 his former chan.|big men amons the German. publie, el amount B¢ food and work, to | democracy and the Reich have yet|cellor, Marx, who last year made the |both Democrats and Monarchists. T el the miseries of a past still | Bustained. This is not due to the fact | [ondon agreement whicn saved the |Among these public men Ebert was too recent e eaotten “Thus | that death Involves a change in the | Dawes plan. Marx was latter turned labor I8 not only quiescent, but meas- | Presidency, for Ebert had declined to | out of office as a result of the shift urably inced |be a candidate to succeed himself |of the Industrialists from the left to Dictatorship. a Mussolini and Fa- |and would have gone of office in | the right; that is, from association e & Clth. iy, Gen. von [& few weeks. The blow is to the |with the Democratic parties to that Kkt as dictator, has been frequen Soc’alist party, the largest and most | with the reactionary Nationalists, He, issed in & mow becoming remote | Powerful of the republican partles, | too, suffered in the recent unsuccuss: e there le a common wree. | 0 the ‘leadership of which Ebert | ful' efforts to form a cabinet in the D e e ould ot he under- | would certainly have succeeded when | Prussian Parliament ‘ he left the presidency. Marx is a member of the Center or taken save in the face of Bolshevis Ciril wrl-n basidlisroeeced The Socialist party has been serious- | Roman Catholic party. The religious Seckt Is regarded as safe, committed to maintain order against revolution or counter revolution, likely to attend | to his knitting, which is preserving| order, organizing his little Ver- cailles-permitted army the Rhine question remains unsettled for too long a period, the conse- quences may be unhappy. Nevertheless there is not the small- est suggestion at the moment of any royalist “putsch.” Berlin took the news of the President’s death with much the same calmness as American cities learned of the passing of Presi- dent Harding. The next day follow- ing Ebert's death was a day of na- tional mourning for the dead of the war, but although there were in- numerable services and the streets were crowded, there was no disorder, no evidence of political unrest. Harried by Publie. public, having courage to repress any possible outbreak by the Royalists. Hats a/ Tomorrow, Shown Tuday 1227 F Se. NW. impression is of a country out of which nothing very striking or in- teresting in the larger sense, politi- cully or economically, is ltkely to come for an indefinite period of time. Germany is not on the edge of & W re )n resulting from a re- | 1 of bolshevism, nor is she con- |ation the pdssibility of a Devotion to Republiec. Of the vitality of the Republican sentiment, too, Ebert's death gave m mar ment of this ence of would he be against an | The to Extra Fancy Honey in Comb Select Well Filled Frames 40c each Magruder Inc. Best Groceries Conn. Ave. and K St. Established 1875 Reasonable Men at Helm. Germany is at the moment governed by essentially reasonable men, sup- ported by more or less unreasonable men, who make up the Nationalist party The impression of all foreign observers here, official and unofficial, gcems to be that the Luther govern- ment is honestly striving to obtain ®» « understanding with her enemies of | th= war, Is working for a solution of | tre guestions of security for both France ana Germany, for the Ger- mens scem quite as apprehen rencn aggression now as the French of eventful German attack. Instead ot being a place filled with ional possibilitie: Berlin, like many, is a ther dull, sober - with every evidence of recent suffering, of great lassitude and men- tal weariness in many directions. There is, too, precisely that excess of dancing, drinking, of lavish expendi- the relatively restricted s which has been the case in practically all the war countries. Hard to Talk War. 1 do not believe the average Ger- man is thinking about the war or that it would be possible under any conceivable ecircumstances to rouse him to any sort of violence, civil or domestic, at the present time. He is in a markedly depressed, sensitive ctate of mind, given over, I think in not a few ‘cases, to self-pity, rather general expecting that some sort of sure, easy salvation will come to him by some action of Great Britain or even of the United States. Speaking broadly, German hatred of France is quite as general, if not by any means as publicly explosive, as | German hatred of England during the war. The conviction that France means to stay on the Rhine, even to cross the Rhine, remains pretty wide- spread. Fear of France, I should say, was the dominating emotion. 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