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Show is Sit VIOLENCE Parties of Middle Class Dodge Responsibility and Socialists Rule With Moderate Hand y Asssslated Press. ' BERLIN, Saturday, Not. 16 (Delayed).- -Berlin has now had a week of revolution, yet the streets have the same appearance they presented on any Saturday during; ths war, with ths exception of ths absence of newspaper nvfer-enea nvfer-enea to events along ths front. " A casual visitor would aot be aware j that this has been ths storm center I of a glgantla political upheaval. Ths ! mass of ths public appears 'anything but excited ever ths future progress of s vents. .00 DHII W TOPIC. It Is no reflection on ths Germans sens of patriotic duty to say that ths news of American food relief temporarily eclipses ' curiosity over ths political drama. After four years Of war ths listless attitude of the ' middle class slsmsnts in the early I stages of ths revolution is typical 1 of ths apathy that prevails. LEFT IT TO aOCIALISIg; 1 While parliamentary leaders of ths xnldrils parties beat a headlong retreat re-treat when ths abdication of Emperor William was announced and left the Hoclal . Democratic party undisputed masters of ths tangled situation, ths majority of ths middls class cltlxens appeared oblivloua or perplexed in the face of grave eventtt. It was only after ths Socialists hsd worked feverishly fev-erishly for eight days to anchor ths reTotutlon In ths hearts and minds of ths worklngmen that ths middle classes derided to lei us thslr first call to arms. Ths Fhert-Haaee cabinet apparently Is In undisputed control. It has taken over such elements of ths old bureau-eratls bureau-eratls regime as was Indispensable and placed Its party men In strategic positions. Ths hssllly created sub-ordinate sub-ordinate bodies and committees are grsduslly becoming organised. EXPERIMENTS POSTPONED. Ths executive committee of the soldiers' and workmen's organisation la sup4hsed to be ths highsst authority, au-thority, but It la subordinate to the final authority of the council formed -by ttnj an people's commissioners. 1'ntll ths national assembly hss ds creed the structure of the new re-publlo, re-publlo, ths present apparatus must be accepted as a mskeehift. At present pres-ent the Kbert cabinet la concerning Itself with ths urgent problems of food snd demobilisation. The gravity of both Is such thst tha radicals are wisely refraining from Indulging In any Utopian experiments. CBCRT MILD LEADER. ' I Kbert and Beholden, an n are not feared. sLansberg to a professional lawyer credited with poise and moderation. mod-eration. He asserted today that the present time above all Is not suited to tampering with capital and Industry. Indus-try. Haase, Dlttmana and Berth have been lees satisfactory. Haase la credited cred-ited with being an extremely astute politician. He Inherited party leadership leader-ship from Ferdinand August Be be I. former Hooiallst chief In the relchetag. but lost command when bis party split four years ago, No serious defections I the can-! net's dellberaUone haa appeared, al- though the left wing haa not declared for an early convening of the national i assembly It desires to exploit the. Interim In fortifying proletarian rule. Kbert and'tVheldemsnn, on the other hand, are contented to rest their I cause tn th elections, j EOURGEOItE It BUeY. I The 'coming week will bring the , middle class parties fnto action. The ' merger of the national liberal and , 1 nrosrresalvea haa virtually been ef- fected." Leading men and women all over the country Issued a stirring call for tha founding: of new democratic demo-cratic party today. Th appointment of Karl Kautsky and Edward Bom-stein Bom-stein as under secretaries of foreign affairs and finance bring twa of th beat known theorists Into th soldiers' and workmen's government. Both are convinced, however, that Germany ts not in fit spiritual or physical condition con-dition to warrant experiments. LIEPKNECHT BLAMED. Responsibility for he disorders In the first ds of the revolution rests on th Bpartacua group. In whica Llebknecht an Roea Luxembourg carry little of the Inflwenca they held at first. Soldiers and sailors are ready to suppress any plot against th government and are Insistent In their demand for nonparttean politic and for convening the' national assembly, as-sembly, at which the greater German republic will receive Its baptism. i |