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Show DEATH CALLS NOTED ENEMY BERLIN, Oct. 31 (UP) Maximil- ian Harden, enemy of the former I kaiser, first important publicist to predict the World war and the man who warned that the United States would not be an ally of Germany Ger-many in that conflict, died yesterday yester-day at his home in Montanaver-mala, Montanaver-mala, Switzerland. He was 66 years 'as founder and publisher of the weekly newspaper "Die Zukunft g ("The Future") he became one of U the Kaiser's earliest and most fear- B less foes. As early as 1892, in one of the I first issues of his paper, he pointed out the danger from the wilful and I inconsiderate policy of the Kaiser s g personal regime. Six months in. prison was the answer of the Kai- 1 scr's government. This was the be- j n-inning of Harden's fame. j In December, 1911, Harden told the Berlin : correspondent of the United Press, in a copyrighted interview, in-terview, that unless there was a complete "right about face" in the , methods and policies of the men in control of Germany's foreign affairs af-fairs war between Germany and England would be inevitable. He doubted that there would be a "right about face," he said. , The editor was a close friend of Bismarck in the "Iron Chancel- lor's" later days. After winning fi additional fame in 1906 through his t articles which were responsible for s breaking up the notorious "round table" clique of secret and irresponsible irrespon-sible advisers to the Kaiser, his pen was feared and respected as that of no other publicist in the Fatherland. Father-land. Chango to Pacifist The issue of the Marne battle achieved the miracle of turning the warlike Harden into a pacifist. He remained faithful to pacifism ever afterward. His paper was suppressed sup-pressed repeatedly by military authorities during the war, and he was threatened with imprisonment. He enthusiastically greeted Wood-row Wood-row Wilson's ideas, and there was no warmer champion of the League of Nations than Harden. Following the war Harden roused the ire of the republic by publishing in American newspapers the state- ment that: "Germany should not be granted food credits in the United States, as German agriculturists are able ' to provide the populace with gram : for bread if they so desire." |