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Finally, a sensation was created when the notorious ultra-reactionary militarist, Captain Ehrhardt, was observed to be strolling about the lobbies of the Reichstag and conferring privately with the leaders of the Voelkische, the extreme-Right Ludendorff faction. Captain Ehrhardt not only led the famed Kapp Putsch, which attempted to overthrow the German Republic in March, 1920, but was so implicated in the assassination of the Ministers Erzberger and Rathenau that he was forced to flee from Germany until the passing of last year's amnesty law. Pressmen eagerly touted his appearance as a sign that his old adherents...
...alarm felt, particularly in Socialist circles, was undoubtedly accentuated by memories of the Spartacan Rebellion of 1919 and the Kapp Putsch of 1920, the one Communist, the other Monarchist. With both parties stronger than ever they have been since the War, their proposed temporary fusion is indeed food for serious thought...
...political situation in Germany continues to be fraught with peril. A putsch, not dissimilar from the Kapp Putsch of 1920, is an imminent possibility. The object of such a movement would be primarily to prevent the country falling into the hands of Communists, who have been engineering a plot to seize the Government for some time. If the coup d'état were successful, a Fascist dictatorship would be established, followed, no doubt, by the reëstablishment of the Monarchy...
Since the exodus of Kaiser Wilhelm, periodic rumors of revolt have kept the German pot a-boiling. German Ministries have ebbed and flowed but only one bubble in the pot has come to the surface the Kapp Pusch of 1920. This bubble was soon burst. In the alchemy of internal turmoil, the characteristics of Prussia have changed places with those of Bavaria and Saxony. Berlin beams with sunny cordiality, while Munich and Dresden are lowering with political ferment...
...civilized world may properly be grateful to Kapp for showing them that the German republic, far from being an empty shell, is living organism for which Germans will fight, if necessary. As long as they demand representative government, be it constitutional, or be it soviet, the rest of the world has not much to fear. To be sure, we may expect that Germany will be troubled by many revolts and uprisings, both monarchist and radical. But until we see the posability of the restoration of the military regime with its idols we need not worry. As for the agitation...