Show How U. U Feared Red dC Coup up In Berlin in 1920 Revealed WASHINGTON March March 4 AP AP American American concern lest CS communists com corn m seize control of the German government nt in 1920 1020 was disc dis r c dosed closed o ed toda today in secret diplomatic matic published by the state department The United States government was shown lo to h have hav ve regarded regard d the possibility as so serious that it warned yarned German officials that re relict relief re- re lief measures unde undertaken here t to aid the stricken German population would be imperilled The story is related in tn dispatches s dealing with Germanys Germanys' post war troubles They were were exchanged between Loring Dread American commissioner at Berlin and Bainbridge Bainbridge Bain Bain- bridge Colby and Fr Frank L. L Polk secretary and acting secretary of state Dispatches nc Revealed cal d dOn On March 21 1920 Dread Dresel cabled the state department Under UnderSecretary Secretary of- of State Slate Von Han Hancl informed d me- me methis this morning that serious danger exists exist that radical elements in Berlin would decI declare r a A. republic this afternoon Two hours hour later laler Dresel Drese sent Bent another cable reporting that Chancellor Baur had told an an-Ameri an American Ameri- Ameri can newspaper correspondent correspond nt- nt that thai t the e political situ situation tion wa va ver very S t precarIous They stated d 1 he hc added That lie most promising means of at saving savin Germany and all c central Europe of bolshevIsm would be statement statement statement state state- ment by the American president it whose word would carry weight If he ic declared that no raw materials or or r fo foodstuffs could be furnished n a a Germany adopting an an ultra-radical ultra form Corm orm of government Warning Is Issued fo o statement was wu forthcoming front from rom the American president but Polk olk cabled a reply giving Dresel authority to say to the German Government This American government nt hopes lopes to see a sane and healthful resumption of or labor and commerce Ja In n Germany and would sincerely regret egret any subversion of the i In Industrial hi- hi order orders as s would preclude such measures 0 of relief a. a as are contemplated contemplated contemplated con con- i in the allied and associated asso asso- elated nations and would also make male extremely difficult t if not ly y Impossible the resumption ol of trade rade relations the re re- industry |