In the Reichstag last Saturday the Radicals urged strongly that
efficiency should be the sole qualification for military posts, and that social, political, and religious prejudice should be entirely banished. Many members of the National Liberal Party were in sympathy with the Radicals. Dr. Paaeche, for example, said, according to the oorrespondent of the Morning Post, that there could be no question of having Socialist officers in the Army as long as Socialism pursued its present policy but that it could not be because of inefficiency that Jews were not permitted to become officers. He also said that the wish of nearly all parties in the Reichstag was that no distinction shall be made, even in the Guard Regiments, 'between officers with titles and officers who had none. The conesponden adds that, though the law allows a Prussian who is a Jew to become an officer, there is no Jewish officer in the German Army, and yet the Jews of Germany are not only very numerous, but are specially well educated and control vast interests in commerce and finance.
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