13 JULY 1918, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
HERR VON KUHLMANN has resigned, in other words has been removed, from the position of German Foreign Secre- tary. He is succeeded by Admiral von Hintze, a Pan-German of the purest breed. When Herr von Kuhlmann made his famous cold-water speech declaring that victory by force of arms was impossible for Germany, he was of course speaking by authority. Such things are not said by Ministers in the Reichstag without permission or definite orders. The fact that he made such a speech therefore meant that the predominant will of the moment in the Gorman Government desired to disillusion the German people. Subsequent events have proved that the Pan-Germans are still so strong that they refuse to allow the German people to be dis- illusioned.
