Show Germanys Germany's Man ManOf ManOf ManOf Of the People ERR DOKTOR ZIMMERMANN ZIl H HERR successor of Gottlieb von Jagow Jagow Jagow Ja- Ja gow as German minister of foreign affairs has the distinction tion of being the first commoner to lo hold that office in the history of the Prussian Prussian Prussian sian kingdom or the German empire Herr Zimmermann is not only of middle class origin but he is said to be proud of it and it is reported that on several several several sev sev- eral occasions he has refused the aristocratic von proffered by the kaiser In his methods he resembles the practical politicians of America and Engl England nd rather than the autocrats of ot Prussia It would be quite impossible impossible sible to imagine his predecessor the Prussian aristocrat appealing for popular popular popular lar favor by shaking hands with the common mob or kissing their babies but Herr Zimmermann might easily do b both th American correspondents 11 in Berlin found Herr Zimmerman always ready to receive them and talk to them when he was undersecretary of state for tor foreign a affairs 13 Born in the on he early entered the consular service and for a number of years was stationed in China becoming consul general at In 1901 he returned to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and entered the foreign office e as the chief of the bureau of Oriental affairs Later he was charge daf faires at Madrid and was responsible for the discovery of the secret treaties between Spain and France which I were negotiated by M. M Delc As undersecretary of ot state and of foreign foreign foreign for for- I eign affairs he has been a notable figure in Germany Not long before his elevation to the post vacated by I von Jagow he gave an interview to toan toan toan an American correspondent in which while asserting that Germanys Germany's course in the war was above tel reproach roach he said I that the empire needed a more liberal form of government and that it would certainly gain it as one of the results of the war I |