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GERMANY'S FUTURE,

THE CIVIL SERVICE. V

Herr Eugen Schiffer is the Minister of Justice for all Germany. A varied carrer stands to his credit since 1885, when be frau hald judicial offes as a Puishe judge. A year before the Revolution be Was Secretary to the Treasury, and in 1918 Minister of Finance for a short time. His present offles is one of great dignity, being charged with many of the powers of the Chancellor of the Empire. Herr Schiffer is also the influential leader of the German Democratic party in the Reichstag, and comes from an old Jewish merchant family.

He is a typicaiddio presentative of the German upper class The purpose of my visit was to discuss the notorious corruption among some parts of German

the mensures to wis to bureaucracy, and Civil Service, wrote a special correspon

to purify the dent of the Daily Telegraph from Berlin,

30th. Allowance must

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on

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hobez

of the Revolution, which

accom

and "haity 1814 onwards

panied the disor From 19rvice

due to the war. every branch of the been stripped experienced

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ad.

responsible.

ministrators for the countries ther German troops in Russia, Belgium, and France. Many posts at home were therefore filled by men ql lesser degree; and not a few of the Ger man Civil servants, on their return

from the

war zones, were contaminated by the irregularities acknowledged in Rosmania, public

and elsewhere."

servants have been rather poorly and the stupendous rise in the cost of living threw them on, their beau ends, and so it came about that the legitimate wants of their families led some of them either to wink at or assist improper pro- ceedings. To

find the proper officials for the Civil Service is one of the greatest. difficulties of the new democracy. Rough and even rude may have been many of old Prussian public officials,

but

were honest, faithful, and most ancient

I do not know what would have pened if so great a proportion of them had not stuck to their

Government often high

many of them. It

no

and served

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say the whole of our internal. would have collapsed if Germany ha not enjoyed the advantage of their ser vices since the Republic was proclaimed On the one hand, however, the will not tolerate any political resistance Republis or bias on the part of the Civil σε the

nor on the other hand," discharge

miled and underpaid off cials who loyally execute their duties

because of their private opinions, d Englishmen and Americans cari scarcely realise how essential, the Bureaucracy is to Germany, whether a Republic or si Monarchy. It is the administration ti which generations have been accustomed which is preferred:

DEMOCRACY'S WEKKSZLIES,"

There is, I believe, an impresion in Entente countries that our bureaucracy and the remaining elements of the old army could in given circumstances, over- throw the Republic. The old not exist and cannot be revived and army does the administrative chiefs of our political organisation have been re- moved Prefects, sub-prefects, and semi-political by men in The efficiency

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eck,

this, your Excellency," I ventur scarcely suggests a purgo for cor reption, and the efficient bureaucracstablishment, of an "Yog must remember, the Minister observed. that fos eleven months w -have been busy

pence and making a Written Constitution, and therefore legislation concerning internal affairs has been delayed. I am determined to parify the public service and commercial life by the measures I

I shall at an early dato, pass through the Reichstag with My scheine establishes ad- committees and summary

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tow we can

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CAUBER OF CRIME,

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ther erimes in Germany)”

their they

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Bive

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outsions. But I

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of surrendering German subjects. Most which a potent aid to disorder, har country, whether a national or interna

is

readily wi

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