GERMAN SPOKESMEN.

Northern Advocate, 27 April 1921, Page 4

GERMAN SPOKESMEN.

AT LONDON CONFERENCE. The German delegation that recently- visited London to discuss reparations wi'li the Allies comprised a number of the most prominent men of the present day in Germany. Dr. Simons, the Foreign Minister, and leader of the German delegation, is by profession a lawyer. He lias spent most of his life in administration. He was formerly a State advoeatc and judge in industrial Westphalia, and in |lis spare time specialised in the rights of civilian property in war. ( Iffr attended the conferences of The Hague and Vienna as Gorman delegate on private property in war, and in his capacity ho attracted the attention of the German Foreign Office, to which he was appointed legal adviser. He was one of the German uelegates under General Hoffman when the Peace of Brest-Litovsk was dictated to Trotsky. He also drafted one of the three German Notes handed to the Supreme Council at Versailles. He is comparatively new to Parliamentary politics, the present being his first office.

Dr. Goeppert is head of the Juridical Section of fthe German Foreign Office, with the rank of Ministerial Director. He is an authority on food and rationing.

Herr Schroeder is Secretary of the Finance Department, and was one of Germany's finance delegates at Brussels He has considerable experience of conferences as the items of the German Budget, when they are dealt with in committee, are discussed by a member of the Finance Department, and the task often falls on Herr Schroeder. He is an authority on -taxation and an ardent advocate of economy in national expenditure.-

Herr von Le Suire, of the Ministry financial economist in the whole delegation, mid it is probable that the bulk of the work and responsibility in the present, ns in the previous conferences luils upon his shoulders. He is Recret'iry in the Ministry of Finance.

Herr von Sinison is the woll-kucwn Secretary of the Foreign Office, who was a member of the German Delegation to Pnri? before the sigp.ing of the Treaty of Versailles. He has been tiveless in his efforts in the compiling of propaganda against the Peace Treaty.

Hprr Lo\wilcl, of the Ministry of the Interior, is an economist of distinction His frequent successes in handling Reichstag committees have gained him 'i groat reputation in Germany.

Hcrr von Le .suire, of the Ministry of tho Interior, i-> also an economist. Ho is responsible in great measure for the line taken by the Germans on the question of ithcir capacity to pay. He is also the chief exponent to the theory that the Treaty provisions may well operate against the interests of the Allies no loss than against those of Germany. He also has the main hand in the preparation of the German counter-proposals which he foreshadowed in his speech at the Brussels Conference. General von Seeckt is the Com-mander-in-Chief of Germany's new array, and one of the most striking figures produced by the war. He was author of the plan for the Gorlice-Tar-now break-through and hi.-s war services to his country both in Germany -and in tho Near East were many and distinguished, With him arc General Lieutenant-Colonel Micliclis, Major Alarheine, and Captain von GoMhammiT and the navy is represented on his staff bv Admiral Reimann.