Another extraordinarily interesting piece of news, which comes from the
Cologne Times correspondent, is that the extreme German Nationalist Party, the Deutsche Volkischc Bloc (the German People's Party), which had been prohibited from any activities in the occupied area, has suddenly received permission from the Rhineland Nigh Commission both to put up candidates and to carry on election propaganda. We suggested last week that a victory for the extreme German Nationalists at the coming elections might suit M. Poincare's book very well, and prove the best election propaganda for the French 131oe National that could be imagined. But if the Deutsche Volkische Bloc had not been allowed to operate in the Rhineland a number of seats might have been lost to it. Would it be impious to suggest that this considera- tion weighed with M. Tirard, and with that august body, the Rhineland Commission ?
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