SOUTHERN GERMAN STATES.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13456, 30 April 1914, Page 7

SOUTHERN GERMAN STATES.

An interesting piece cf news, which shows to a certain extent the trend of the times is the roconstitution of a Legation of the Grand Duchy of Baden at the Court of Bavaria. Formerly all the larger German States maintained representatives at each of the other capitals, but since the foundation of the empire many of thorn have gradually cut out these small embassies and their consequent Budget entries. Prussia is a notable exception, and undoubtedly has an advantage in many ways in consequence. The demand oft Urn Prussian League (encouraged by leaders of the Junkers, i.e., the most powerful and influential party in the empire) that the Imperial Chancellor i should make Prussia's position of preponderance more clearly seen .and felt hr.s had the effect of throwing the nonPrussian elements of the empire more closely together. Tlio reconstitution by Baden of a Legation at Munich is an outcome of'"thi,s defensive irovelnent. Meanwhile the Souther,! St.ites —Bararia. Baden, and Wurttenberg—. lhavo not been backward in showing' how they differ .from semi-feudal Prussia. The Bavarian Minister of War recently issued a cirr-Ia:- apost-j rophising cruel treatment in the army. J It is scarcely less extraordinary, ?.t j least from tluv Prussian point of view, than, the'emphatic; denunciation of the Chauvinistic px^ss and the strong appeal for slackening the pace of military expenditure-, which shortly preceded it. Such speeches are not to-be expected from any responsible quarter in Prussia for many a year to come. Similarly, the recent Ministeral declaration in th-. Bavarian Diet concerning the Socialists '"s thoroughly obnoxious to the official Prussian mind. Tho Minister of State, although firmly and fundamentally opposed to Soealist ideas, said that the party was nevertheless part of the community as a whole, and could not be treated as a body of outcasts. Thi« turn in the politics of Southern Germany, for the time being, can have little or no effect on the external policy of the empire, but it deserves to be brought to notice if only because it appears to bear out the wisdom of Bis■mark, who "foresaw a growth in the divergency 'betwofen Junker Prussia and thp more Liberal Southern States Zabern rail the Chancellor's handling of tlio r.flair Ivvvc v.r^oubtsclly 'done mien tn cr.ir'-.11 :■?,'.-■ c i:.-?:? opposing tan•dc'icios.. ' .

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