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December it had become evident it out of the rut of Parliamentary that the course of avanta was j reform into which it was slipping leading away from the Congress

NOSIE'S "AID, of Councila to the Constituent This Communist faction, com Assembly, and away from social manded but not controlled by: revolution to political reconstruc-Liebknecht, were working for a tian. The Central Council that second revolution in alliance with would have been the driving- Russian agents. This "Spartau wheel of the Socialist engine, | us | faction was strong in the was becoming no more than a industrial districts of the centre sailors drag shos on the old State and west, among the

in the coast-towns and in. filled Before the German revolution Berlin. Its ranks were was a month old--that is, by the rapidly with discontented work- disbanded soldiers, and end of the first week of December men, —it was entering its second phase, derailed" youths. Rifles were against such in which the Parliamentarian plentiful, and Commissioners having ousted the irregulars, supported by sailors, proletarian councils from control, the Government was at first help then divided among themselves less. But as the regulars that had inta reformers and revolution-kept their ranks returned from aries, and at the end of the second the front it was found that some phase, early in January, we find regiments were ready to act that the reformers have ousted against the mob. Such a policy was denounced by the Indopen- the revolutionaries. Baden in being one degree more

dents, Haase and Kautsky, and This came about thuswise. to the left a development which

Ebert, perhaps also Scheidemann, was due in any case apart from The German Social Democratic had doubts, but Landsberg, who the revolution.

Party was professedly revolution had found a strong man in Noske, The German revolution is ary. Its political attitude had the Prussian War Minister, drove peculiar in having reached its of all co-operation or even com ghting with the sailors at the been traditionally one of refusal

matters to a breach. On the first highest point at once and then relapsed to where it started from Promise with the imperial system. Karstall on Dec. 23, Haase and without any reaction or recoil. On this negative basis it had been Kautsky resigned. Thus the in- G.P.O. Box 444. This in itself shows how far it possible to combine in a common tellectual and idealist element of was due in its origin to external front comrades of very different revolution was removed from all forces-propaganda from Russia on the one side and pressure from us on the other. Our military and naval pressure broke firs; the prestige then the power of Kai- serism and militarism, while the Russian precedent gave the forces of rebellion and revolution a

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points of polittical thought. But superficial solidarity could not stand the strain of the war. A sense of patriotism carried one section-the Majority Socialists --first into countenancing and

Police precautions against the then into supporting the Govern-Russian agents, combined with a ment, while pacifist sentiment

Press propaganda against the practical example of how to exagainst war in general, and this press themselves in. co-ordinated

to action. They seized the offices councils of workmen and soldiers war in particular, carried the Spartacists, provoked the latter -the Soviet system. We knocked minority into more obstinate op of the Forwaerts and other German despotism out of the position. This finally split the

and used them for publishing their saddle, and Russia gave German party much as it split our Labour Papers most offensive to them. The Majority Party

Social Socialism a leg up. And that's

Democrats moved towards the own pamphlets. They had not ap why it went so far too fast.

Goverment, while the Govern-parently planned anything more ment towards the end of the war than a demonstration, and did not The came to meet them. Until final anyhow exploit the success they

the Ministry of Prince Max of had seized by surprise.

Government, however, after some Baden, that ended the war, difficulty in concentrating and only represented the Reichstag supplying sufficient troops, con- majority, but also the Majority verted the "putsch" into a pitched Donne Hrad A Social Democrats.

battle. Noske regulars, with all the machinery of modern war, produce leaders-men with en- When Prince Mar went down made short work of the half- ough confidence in their own in the revolution he remitted the hearted, half-armed irregulars of position and enough character to reins of govenment to Ebert and Eichhom, the Spartacist Police The revolution impose themselves on the Scheidemann. They, knowing Commissioner. permanent officials. The Cen-that alone they could not rule was crushed in Berlin and driven tral Council-the true re-the whirlwind, called in the Min-back to the coast ports, whence it

Stenaby Mr & Mrs volutionary Executive

and ority Social Democrats, the Inde- came and whither it could later Fisher Flag Capt & Skimmer Capt D

Liebknecht and C the Congress of Councils pendents, offering them equal re- be pursued.

Luxemburg, its Berlin Goman Mr & Mr. Davora T

JJ the true revolutionary Legisla-presentation in the Cabinet, now Rosa

People's Commis- leaders, were killed under. cir ture, never got any power. I called the

that suggested a WMN all monopolised by the sioners. and in the Central cumstances People's Commissioners. who Council. This arrangement was military execution.

So the Independents having were not really a revolutionary ratified by the Congress of Coun- institution at all, but an ordinary cils, though very perfunctorily, committed hari-kari and provisional government of Paras it was considered as a provi- Spartacists being hoist with their own petard. middle-class and liamentarians, and though they sional makeshift. nominally held their mandate Now, while the Social Demo- moderate Germany heaved a sigh from the Congress of Councils a crats of the Majority were just of relief, and hoped that the bogey majority of them considered Parliamentary reformers, the In. of Bolshevism was buried. The themselves as trustees for a Con-dependents of the Minority, elections to the National Assemb- stitusar Assembly. These Par-Haass and Kautsky, were rely were held a few days later without disturbance, and the liamentarians could work well volutionaries. Liebknecht was a enough with the permanent radical revolutionary who would German revolution entered its officials, and, indeed, welcomed not come into the Coalition. third and last phase. their assistance, whereas the Consequently, whereas Elbert and councils, of course, came into Scheidemann considered them- selves as merely Commissioners violent collision with them.

Constituent a prepare THE SECOND PHASE.

Asssembly, the Independents When the council system considered themselves Consuls asserted itself, as in the army. it for the Congress of Councils. made a real revolution, and the The former considered the revo- officer caste was broken, probably lutica was probably unnecessary. for good. But the workmen were and in any case bad done its work

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money is reduced to insignific- ance. On the other hand, there is as yet no strong obstacle to their recovery, and the power of LEADERS. the bureaucracy is almost unir- paired. If the instigators of the crimes of the old regime are gone, Mr. George Young, special the instruments are not while

for correspondent of the Daily News, the independent intellectuals, the public prosecutors of those crimes, writes:-

And yet as were the soldiers in the army, universal suffrage and a united What we English want to know have been voted down. about the German revolution is before we refuse absolution to the and they allowed the Parliament-Germany. The Istter considered whether, and to what extent, it is new German democracy we must arians to spare the Amalekite. that the revolution had only a riddance of the evil we have be quite sure that these relapses Only the political heads of begun, and could only do its work been fighting and a renascence are real unregeneracy and not departments were replaced by through the Sovie: system and a of the good we can befriend. Has reactions caused by fear of Prus- Social Democrats, and, in one general socialisation.

The first serious difference the German revolution gene far sian revolution on the one side or case I know, a revolutionary Mini-

came over the Poles, with whom enough and deep enough to be a French retribution on the other. ster allowed his predecessor, out

a We can only judge of this from of courtesy, to keep his official the Independents had practically sincere repentance sufficient remediation? For unless the course taken by the revolu- residence. This was, of course, concluded an arrangement which all very nice, but it meant that was, however, upset by Lands- Germany is born again it can in tion.

The history of the German the old machine was not broken berg, one of the People's Com-Bashr Mezun

and a Jew from no wise enter our community of

revolution can be shortly describ-up, nor even brought under con- missioners

Then came serious nations.

Ated and sharply defined. After trol. The result was that a coali- Posen.. The answer is not easy. least Germany has ridded itself the first explosion on Nov. 9 came tion between the mere reformers differances over German policy of the worst evil-doers. Kaiserisma month of equilibrium between among the commissioners and towards the Entente. The In- is as dead as Tsarism, desder even, revolution and reaction; then a the civil servants was enough to dependents advocated as a new гасте re-orientation of admitting culpabil because the Kaiser is still living- month of which the first fort-counterbalance, the

a swing slowly to volutionary commissioners and ity in the war crisis in Belgium, The only mention of him I've night was seen is an argument is a law the right up to the breach with the councils, until finally external subrgarine warfare, etc., and on Dec. circumstances determined the actively prosecuting an investiga: journal that the abdication should the Independents

a Minister, 24, and more swiftly in the deadlock in favour of the former. tion of accepting such liability as have been signed by

ap to the

The German revolution never might be shown to be equitable, with an apology for raising an second fortnight academic point. The Black Eagle battle with the Spartacists in took its Bastille in the Wilheim while frankly discussing such The sentries set by the assets as could be realised in of Prussia was no Phoenix and the January; thereafter a month of trasse. blaze of Nor. 9 left nothing of it rapid return to the point where it Soldiers' Councils at the doors of payment. This the Majority re- negative but a bad odour and a white was before the explosion, a point the Government offices, who jected, preferring a

reached with the formation of loudly demand your pass and policy of passive submission. But feather.

Further, Junkerism though not the Coalition. Government by the only look foolish if you ignore the final breach came over in- yet dead and gone is down and National Assembly on Feb. 13. them, are symbolic of the failure ternal policy, the use of force. Dylwad W the German revolution. against the Radicals of the re- Duncan W out. The military power of the ndeed the present Government of officer caste is broken and the only differs from that of Max of Indeed, by the first week of volution who were trying to force Dell W

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