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Startling to many a German and others in Berlin last week, was a blazingly candid newspaper article How I Accidentally Proclaimed the German Republic, by Philipp Scheidemann, first Chancellor of the Republic...
With meticulous exactitude Socialist Scheidemann writes that he was eating a bowl of "thin 1918 soup" in the Reichstag Restaurant when members of his party plunged in, grabbed him by the arm, and declared that he must appear on a balcony of the Reichstag to address a large, incipiently revolutionary throng...
...tired of making speeches," growled Scheidemann over his soup, but nonetheless he mounted the balcony...
...Reichstag proceedings upon this point last week were, however, of such a routine nature that only Deputy Scheidemann (Socialist) spoke. He accused Wilhelm of Doorn of high treason, charging that he betrayed secrets of importance to the late Tsar Nicholas. During Herr Scheidemann's tirade, many Deputies of the Right quietly left the hall-heeded not when he went on to accuse Wilhelm's sympathizers of "deception, corruption, and doglike servility...
...Chancellor Luther can depend upon the Monarchist vote and the votes of the big interests. Chancellor Marx can depend on the Catholic vote alone. There remain the large Socialist and the smaller Democratic votes. For whom will these people vote? Possibly for a Socialist candidate, say ex-Chancellor Philipp Scheidemann; but, if the issue is to be between Herrn Luther and Marx, it would seem that a majority of the Socialists and Democrats, who are largely Protestants, will vote for Protestant Luther rather than for Catholic Marx. But it is extremely unlikely that this will be the issue...