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Show KAISERTflYINGTQ I SOLVE0UEST1OBS I Man With Yellow Waistcoat Has H Again Come to the H Front. H EMPEROR HAS MADE I HIM MEMBER CABINET H William's Consumption of Min- H isters Past Six Weeks Has H Been Large. BY MALCOLM CLARKE. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. IH BERLIN, July 30. Emperor William 13 trying to solve questions of Socialism by frequent changes of the ministry., In tho past six weeks thero have been no less than live ministers appointed by tho kaiser. For. a monarch who Is not re-sponsible re-sponsible to a parliament and can retain fl his servants as long as he likes, William's consumption of ministers Is surely largo. People are now talking of a Socialist Vt party in tho next reichstag commanding VM 120 votes. As thero aro only 397 members of tho relchslag, tliat would make tho jH government of Germany possible. Con-servatives Con-servatives do not believe that it will como IH lo that, but it cannot bo gainsaid that tho IH Socialistic vote has Increased 30 per cent sinco the low-water mark, of 1907, when Prince von Buelow left it. The non-So-ciallst Radicals havo helped tho Socialist party ln the last three bye-elections, not IH through a recognized coalition, but be-cause be-cause tho Ideals of both are about equal, ADout Departing Ministers. Of the departing ministers who proved unsuitable to the needs of William in-tercsting in-tercsting elements aro attached to each. Horr von Dcrnburg, the colonial sccro-tary, sccro-tary, who discovered the German colonies, attempted to explain to the peoplo tho benefits to be derived from tho great sums of money expended upon tho colo-nies. colo-nies. He was ridiculed. Baron von Schoon was held up as a foreigner be-cause be-cause ho used to live in France and speaks tho Parisian tongue with faultless grace. Baron von Schoen is now taking-himself taking-himself to Paris as the German embassa-dor. embassa-dor. and he is a happy man. Herr von Kldcrlen Vaeehter. tho new minister, is the strong man of German diplomacy. Ho IH is 58 years old. corpulent, and wears a military mustache. He rank3 as the first German authority on tho eastern affairs and ln this country one docs not get a IH reputation for nothing. He Is a bachelor. Was Laughed Out. Politicians will novor forget a certain debate ln tho reichstag while Germany was yet In tho tumult of tho "kaiser crisis," during which a florid, burlv man jH rose from the government bench. He wore a waistcoat of bright yellow. Tense with the emotions engendered by an af- IH tcrnoon of warm debate, both house and galleries welcomed a patch of color amid the sombcrncss of the hour. During tho preceding debate relentless criticism had been hurled at the conduct of the for-eign for-eign office. It was to defend tho de-partmont de-partmont from charges of Incompetence that this new speaker nad taken the floor. "The foreign office." he began, "Is hopelessly understaffed. "VVe are hand-ling hand-ling four times as many documents as ever before. I will match our zealous personnel against that of any foreign of-lice of-lice in the world." He got no further. Tho house rocked with delight. The re-mnlnder re-mnlnder of the "speech" was lost in jH hilarity. The "man with the yellow waistcoat," as he was destined hence- H forth to be known, resumed his scat, com- IH plctcly laughed down. To many his iden- IH tity was unknown, but whoever he wa3 l his career was considered closed. H His Career Not Closed. This was tho parliamentary debut of Herr von KIdeiien Waehtor," who has, as I havo just told you, been called to the helm of Germany's external affairs H as foreign secretary. Summoned to servo temporarily during the outbreak of feel-lng feel-lng with regard to the "kaiser Inter-view," Inter-view," ho found himself pushed into the breach at a critical moment, to discover that his oratorical powers were unequal to the emergency. Europe would err grievously ln Judging Hen von Kiderlon Wacchter from his maiden effort in tho reichstag. This Wurtemberg diplomatist combines with his South German Jovial-lty Jovial-lty an extremely forceful temperament, H which is destined to mako itself felt un-mlstnkably un-mlstnkably ln the Weltpolillk of tho coming months. For ten years Von Kid-crlen Kid-crlen Wacchter he is often called Von 1 Kldcrlen simply has held tho relative- H ly unimportant post of minister to Ron- IH mania. From that point of vantage, how- H ever, ho has surveyed tho development H nl :ift"nlrq In tho. Tin limn?; nnH flin TConr IH East, and has boon a vigilant outpost of Germany's vaulting ambitions ln those ' IH regions of possibility. IB Not Dovoid of Significance The appointment as foreign secretary of the man who ranks as Germany's H finest expert on Near Eastern conditions H Is a factor not wholly devoid of slg- H nlficance for future events. Whcnover H it lias been necessary for Baron Mar- H Hoha.ll von Blcbersteln, Germany's astuto H embassador at tho Goldon Horn, to leavo H Constantinople. Von Kiderlon Wacchter has been appointed to act as his deputy. IH In tho spring of-1909, when Austria-Hun- jH gary and Germany were bidding Europe jH defiance on tho Bosnian Issuo, it was Von H Kiderlon Wacchter, still acting as for- H eign secretary at Berlin, who held the H reins of German diplomacy and directed H the policy which coerced Russia into H sullen recognition of the Bosnian annex- H ntlon under penalty of war. Count Aoh- H rcnthal and Prlnco Buelow reaped tho IH public laureds of that ominous triumph ' H of German diplomacy. But when lis In- jH nor history Is written to Von Kldcrlen Wnechter will be given the real credit. H |