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Show A STUDY OF THE DELEGATES PARIS. April 25 ( French Wireless Sor-ice)- The attitude of Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau. head of the German Ger-man peace delegation, toward the approaching ap-proaching peace congress is compared by the Temps with the troaliuent accorded ac-corded Frenchmen at the conference at Versailles In 1871 at the close of the Franco-Prussian war. The paper mentions his- attempts to send messengers mes-sengers to receive tho peace treaty and his demands that the Germans be permitted to discuss tht treaty and negotiate with the allied representatives. representa-tives. The rought treatment given Thiers and Favre at Versailles, in 1871. by Bismarck is recalled, although tho paper pa-per points out, they had nothing in common with the imperial regime In Fiance which had been overthrown by the war. The head of the German delegation, the Temps says, was the representative representa-tive in Copenhagen of the German Imperial Im-perial government and he violated the neutrality of Denmark in 1914 when he compelled Denmark to block up with mines the straits leading to the i Baltic Other leaders of the present Ger-; Ger-; man government served the imperial regime, the paper adds. It refers pointedly to Ma'hlas Erzberger, author :of the famous scheme of minimum German peace terms drafted in 1911. ; by which Germany was to get much French territory and to have military sovereignty over Belgium. Erzberger, jit says, was the first spokesman on ! behalf of the German government be-. be-. fore the commission appointed by the i German assembly at Weimar to examine ex-amine the peace terms. The Temps points out further that j Beruhard Dernburg. once colonial min- ister In the Imperial government, has been appointed finance minister with the title of vice premier. 00 |