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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929,

BISMARCK AND THE

EX-KAISER.

PLANS FOR A COUP D'ETAT.

Berlin, Apr. 25. Historians in Germany have been offered material for now Bismarck and new Wilhelm II. biographies in a startling publica- tion founded on authenticated do cuments by Professor Edmund Zechlin, of Marburg University,

In this book, "Coup d'Etat Plans of Bismarck and William the Second, 1890-1894," Dr. Zell- lin proves that Bismarck did nt certain periods, of his career aim at overthrowing the German Con- stitution, and that the Kaiser. having rat lent an ear to these idens, grew nervous. He drew back only to remember. them again when he had dismissed Bis- marck, and to terrify his new chancellor, Caprivi, with the Idea. The mystery surrounding, Caprivi's resignation 1894, is elucidated by this publication as it has never been before.

It was Bismarck's iden, set forth here in a number of FC- ports of Cabinet meetings, to pro voke a quarrel with the nation. as such, by placing now strict anti-Adciallat laws and new de- mands for money for military pur |poses before the Reichstag, calcu- lated in their languagd to bring about such violent oppostion that the Reichstag would have to be dissolved, not once, but several times in succession. This state of affairs would bring about the necessary atmosphere for the new autocracy. Unhappily, he reckoned without the temperament of Wil- liam, who for a time quite of his opinion, soon lent an ear to the warnings of the Duke of Baden, who declared that Bismarck waa only trying to strengthen his own' nosition by provoking a quarrel between the Kaiser and his peo- ple.

A Telegram to Caprivi, However historically accurate

the Duke's opinion may have beca, one finds the Kaiser, four years later, suggesting the same Ideas to Caprivi He consulted, the Kings of Saxony and Wurtemberg about them, and found those, Princes to be very much of hin, new opinion. Willium's telegram. to Caprivi, dated September, 1894, and made public now for the first time, contains the following pas-j

Bage:

The King of Saxony presses the opinion that if the Reichstag constantly shows it- self to be in apposition to laws made to uphold law and order it Has last its right to exist. Tho moment will then have come for the bomb to explode and for the union of German princes to bring in a new law. In other words, the ultima ratio, a coup d'etat. That acclion of the German populace which loves law and order, and whose fear of a revolution is increas- ing daily, would welcome such a solution.... None of Us have. sworn to support the Constitu. tion of the Reich, therefore It can be changed. The King of Saxony will write to Your Ex- cellency, on this subject. "Revolution From on High." Caprivi, horrified, called a Cabinet moeting on October 1894, In which the Finance Minis- ter gave it as his opinion that "public opinion in those circles upon which the Government must build was not yet sufficiently en- lightened. to approve 1 coup d'etat." Caprivi.. to Have the situation, sent in his resignation. A confidential dispatch of the Bavarian Ambassador, Count Ler- chenfeld, hitherto unknown, con- Lains the Kaiser's view on the

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Now that Count Caprivi has resigned, the nation would say that the young Emperor' has mado a coup d'etat with the new Chancellor, Count Eulenberg. That would confuse public opinion. He cannot believe that the German nation will not show 'common scuse enough not to let Social-Democracy gain the upper hand. The end of the century la bringing a num ber of wrong ideas to the sur face, But, when danger threa tens, He, and with him the Princes of the Federal States, will uphold the opinion that the Revolution must be made from on high, and not wall, like France in 1789, till it comes from below.

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