Anticipating this objection, the German Emperor had on Thursday week
appointed a new Ministry, headed by Prince Max of Baden, and including several Clerical and Socialist Deputies. Prince Max, who is descended through his mother from Eugene Beauhamais, the stepson of Napoleon, is the President of the Baden Upper House. He has interested himself in Red Cross work, and has a good commons; of philanthropic phrases; but, like other members of the German ruling caste, he has a profound contempt for Western democracy. His Foreign Secretary is Dr. Solf, the Prussian bureaucrat who has employed his enforced leisure at the Colonial Office in advocating the creation of a still larger Colonial Empire than that which Germany has deservedly lost .for good. Two Clerical Deputies, Herr Ertberger and Herr Grober, and the Socialist leader, Herr Scheidemann, have been made Secretaries of State without portfolios—and therefore without power. Another Socialist, Herr David, has become Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Under the German system the Ministers are the servants of the Chancellor, while the Chancellor is the servant of the Emperor. The most independent of German journalists, Herr Theodor Wolff, of the Berliner Tageblatl, admitted last week, before the change of office-holders, that even a purely Parliamentary Ministry would not mean any decisive reform, as "the true holders of power" would be unaffected. He anticipated, and could not deny, the charge that Prince Max's Government is no more democratic in our sense than Count von Hertling's.
