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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1920.

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AMERICAN CABINET SENSATION.

Washington, Feb. 14.

Secretary of State Lansing has tendered his re- signation which President Wilson has accepted.

Mr. Polk will be appointed Secretary of State adinterim. It is stated Mr. Polk is not accepting a permanency owing to ill health!

It appears the resignation of Mr. Lansing, which official circles call summary dismissal, is due to a bitter dispute with President Wilson who charges Mr. Lansing with usurping the Presidential functions, firstly while. President Wilson was in Paris in January 1919, and .latterly during his illness. President Wilson had been indisposed to welcome his advice as regards the negotia- tions in Paris or on general international affairs.

President Wilson in the course of correspondence charged Mr. Lansing with unconstitutionalism by calling meetings of the Cabinet during his (President Wilson's) illness, pointing out that as there could not be any action without the President therefore the meetings were un- necessary. Consequently President Wilson requested Mr. Lansing's resignation on the ground that it would relieve him from the embarrassment of feeling Mr. Lansing's reluctance and divergence of judgment. In resigning Mr. Lansing said "he believed and his belief was shared by others that the Cabinet meetings were necessary and he would have been guilty of dereliction of unty it he had acted otherwise.

Mr. Lansing's resignation caused a senation in the United States and possible resignation of other Cabinet Ministers are predicted. It is declared that the disagree- mnet between Prob. Wilson And Mr. Lansing dates back to the entry of America into the war. Their relations were almost at breaking punt warly in 19.7 when Mr. Lansing issued his famous statement that the United States, was daly neuter war winch President Wor Vainly endeavoured to overtake. Further differences developed at Paris and the setu ational evidence of Mr. Bullit before the Senate in Fineirn Relations Committee queting Mr. Lansing as declare that he was het is sympathiser with the League of Nations and that the Treaty would fall ifAmericans ever learned its full import is also said to have caused the crisis.

New snap it rumments reveal strong sympathy with Mr. Lansing. It is suggested that President Wilson might well have overlooked the possible irregularity of Cabinet conferences in view of the situation caused by his illness.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS,

New York, Feb. 12. President Wilson is satisfactorily progressing to- wards recovery..

President Wilson has accepted the resignation of Mr. Fletcher, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico,

Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson, one of the founders of the "League to enforce Peace", has been appointed U.S. Ambassador to Rome in succession to Mr. Thomas M. Page.

Mr. Payne, chairman of the Shipping Board, succeeds Mr. Lane as Secretary of the laterior.

Washington, Feb. 12. Senator Lodge has formally proposed that the Senate consider the fourteen Republicau reservations to the Peace Treaty on only two of which differences of opinion remain. These are Article Ten and the Monroe Doctrine but it is understood that private negotiations are con- tinuing in the hope of an agreement when the Treaty is disscussed next week

A REBEL ASSEMBLYMAN.

New York, Feb. 12. Ex-Assemblyman Gitlow, who was arrested with Jim Larkin on 9th Dec, and found guilty of criminal anarchy, has been sentenced to indeterminate imprisonment of from five to ten years, the maximum penalty provided by the law. The prosecution in demanding a conviction referred to the fact that some of Gitlow's associates led revolutionary movements in which a million dollars worth of property was destroyed and the overthrow of organised Government was sought.

ENGLISH SHIPPING INTERESTS.

Washington, Feb. 14.

The Supreme Court has prohibited the Shipping Board's proposed auction of thirty ex-German passenger liners. The application for injunction was made by William Hearst whose newspapers have been opposing the sale to "English interests."

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"A fool by the grace of God!"

"How William ruled!"

These are the headings which Voncerts places over its com- ments on Herr Kautsky's collec- tion of official documents edited: and slightly extended by Count Mar Montgelas and Professor Schaecking, and now published in Berlin.

Herr Helmuthwop Gerlach, an ex-Prussian official turned Socia-} list, writes in the Neue Berliner that the most important things in the volumes are the Emperor William's marginal notes.

It was in the spirit of those marginal notes," says von Ger- lach, that Germany before the war was ruled; those of one day contradict those of the next day..

Notes made between July and August 1, 1914, vividly mirror the catastrophic policy which was then Germany's. The more I consider them, the more I become, persuaded tha: William the Second is a case for a mental specialist rather than for a judge."

WEAK-WITTED WAR-MAKER.

It is to Emperor William's notes, too, that "Forcaerts turna its attention. It says: "He who reads these marginal notes cannot for a moment remain in doubt, that Germany before the war was ruled by a half-witted person.

"It is quite clear that under such a person Germany was bound to rush into war-and to lose that war!"

Theh the journal demonstrates what the Kaiser's mentality was by pointing out the numerous con- tra lictions in those notes, and how culpably ignorant the Em- peror was at times.

On June 13, it points out, he was declaring that everybody who was not convinced of Russia's warlike intentions ought to be thrown into a lunatic asylum; while from that date onwards Germany's whole policy was built on the hope that Russia and Russia's allies would

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Garmany, went for Serbia as vizcrously as possible."

With his "now or never" and such remarks, sags Torunerts, "he could not have his squabble (as he called the approaching war) soon enough.

"On the margin of a note speak. ing of Serbia's annihilation i William writes, "That would be best!"

"But after the Serbian answer the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum he makes his now well- known statement"-about a great i moral victory for Austria and the vanishing of all reasons for

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"This Ruler of All the Ger- mans, "the Foruerts-article-pro- ceeds, "did not even know what. game was being played; he did not know that war was decided on, and that he himself was prancing towards it.

"When the workers-struck in Petrograd during Poincare's visit -Bravo! exclaimed William on the margin of the report but when German workers demon- strated for peate he wrote that the leaders would be locked up if it happened again, and that he would have no workers making Socialist propaganda!

"The poor man did not dream that the peace for which the Berlin workers demonstrated would have saved him his throne."

WILHELM'S VOCABULARY. Vorwaerts comments scathing- ly on William's epithets-the constant use of the words "rub- bish," "nonsense," &c., how he called Sir, Edward Grey a98," idiot." "deceiver," "false hound, &c., how he called an unnamed diplomat "swine," King Victor a "knave," and Signor Giolitti an unheard-of scoun- drel.".

What lovely language for a monarch With irony Yor- waerts" points out how William | wrote on the margin of the Tsar's telegram proposing arbitration, "Well, I never!”

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It points out how, when his aquabble" broke loose at last he wrung his hands and had blame for everybody but himself.

"Thus the bistory of the house of Hohenzollern (concludes Vor-) waerts) end in a fool's tragedy. Its hideous comedy, which is be- yond the fantasy of a Shake- speare, reached its final height! in the telegram of father to sou, in which the Crown Prince was forbidden to make Jingo, utter-

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"It was the law of the monar chy that the All-Powerful alone be entitled to indulge in clown's business."

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