Show Prominent Figures Modern a of Modern German LIfe Step Aside By MAXIMILIAN HARD HARDEN N Foremost Central E Publicist Special radio dispatch to Th Standard Examiner 1926 1 26 Consolidated Press Association Oct 9 Nobody has BERLIN exercised a deep d por r enee on German polities politics In Inthe the last alx lx years ye M than the British ambassador Lord and the th general Yon Von Tha Tho Brilon came with the reputation of bein being a business man and his nerlin was wa interpreted in Germany as a symptom 6 f the desire to put fin fiu finances aneel ances I In order and politics However the Brit British ish embassy y quickly became atter d'Abernon d'Abernon's arrival a center ot of political life President Ebert chancellors ministers party leaders In- In Industrialists In Industrialists and hankers bankers ro- ro re repeatedly asked for the of the ambassador whoso whose in intellectual ship dear was also by hil diplomat diplomatic ic colleagues and whose ad- ad ad advice vice Generally turned out ont to tobe tob be right Ho He illuminated ev every fry ery conversation with Ith his ot of special Interest to visit London to smooth over wrinkles in exchange notes and I In all hatred of o Great Britain nto a belief th t Great Brit Britain ain had become Germanys Germany's upright protector against Frances France's Whoever Whoever knows the tho inside political history since knows that nothing He induced the Berlin government to make the th guar antee antee otter offer to France markel out the th road to Locarno and piloted tho republic lic into harbor The rhe lord protector whose role in the Baldwin area was more important than that of Foreign Secretary Chamber Chamberlain lain now retires He is over 70 but Is a good tilt player and is rejuvenated by the nat nat- natural natural ural cheerfulness of oC the tb sports sportsman man Besides the tho ambassador stood tood the nd lank Gen General eral von See kt his trunk with a tiny head like that of a II wrinkled boy almot boy with ice cold gray grayeyes eyes and with a monocle ap- ap apparently ap apparently grown the right one A stiff military position A good soldier Son ot of an ohl Pruss Ian who had hd reached the almost vice vice-recal rank rani of o com corn generI and chief of the then to a minister hose father was a non com noncommissioned lCd officer and hence according to Prussian views merely a uniformed cipher rhe strategic successes of were really du to Von What Yon Von has accomplished as organizer of the tho Is much more land Ene-land highly estimated In Eng land and France than It Is in Germany But It is not known generally how deeply this gen cen was admired by President Ebert Ebert has Influenced the shaping ol oC German politics But It is till too early to talk about Yon Von as if his career were ended He Heis HoIs is accused of having permit permitted ted the th former crown princes prince's eldest BOD whom millions stUl as the tho future king kine to participate In the of the and of ln ha pub pub- publicly denied the fact That made mad public fals asser assertions which could so easily be checked up is us 88 Improbable as to believe that President knew about the starring engagement of he youns prince who has borne a lieutenants lieutenant title since he was ten years ten old G General Yon Von is only c I typical product of general sta staff and by no moans means a Psycho psycho riddle he is Called Ibe Ills His minister the th would d Gessler is report reported ed to have said to General Yon S after learning about the princes prince's that he would no longer lonser play harlequin Sphinx harlequin harlequin-a a good film title But the writer has reason to believe that the tho sphinx that proposed the now new r of German politics has not Jost his throne on the rock of oC the l r ministry and that everything heretofore rt report reported port ed about the Yon Von mat mat- matter matter ter will soon coon prove to bave been erroneous 00 |