Herr Muller Herr Milner, the German ex-Chancellor, who died last
week, was one of the German signatories of the .Treaty of Versailles. In the modern world the dramas of international statesmanship are seldom played out in public. But as Herr Muller walked down the Galerie des Glacis on June 28th, 1919, there can have been few present who were not alive to the bitterness of the role he had to play. The life-long opponent, as a Socialist, of the forces which had brought his country to her ruin, he received her sentence without complaint. For long afterwards his opponents sought to brand him as ." the man who signed the dictated peace " ; but his wise leadership of the Socialist party won him in recent years an increasing measure of respect in Germany. His last special work for the evacuation of the Rhineland was rewarded by success.
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