Republican Notes

C, If the new German Republic has an ally it is Soviet Russia. Therefore President Paul von Hindenburg bestowed the most important diplomatic appointment in his gift, last week, when he sent Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, erstwhile Chief of the Eastern Division of the German Foreign Office to Moscow, as German Ambassador. The new appointee succeeds late famed Ambassador Count Brockdorff-Rantzau. Dr. von Dirksen served during the War as an officer of Uhlans, began his diplomatic career with the Republic in 1918, has never before held ministerial position or ambassadorial rank. C. Prime Minister Hermann Miiller appointed and despatched officials to administer $5,000,000 in unemployment doles to the 250,000 workmen now locked-out in the Ruhr. The gigantic dole was approved by special act of the Reichstag. With great difficulty the deadlock between employer and employed was temporarily settled, last week, when workmen agreed to resume work on the old wage scale pending a decision by Minister of the Interior Doctor Severing as to whether or not their wages should be rightfully increased. C. Pan-Germans were mightily cheered, last week, by news from Saarbrucken in the French occupied Saar. The local mayor had celebrated the decennial of French occupation, it appeared, by delivering a fiery public speech in the course of which he bellowed:

''Experience has shown that continuance of the present regime until 1935, the year fixed by the Treaty of Versailles for holding a plebiscite to determine the final nationality of our Saar, is an intolerable prospect! Our only wish is to be reunited with Germany, unconditionally and without restriction."

Needless to recall, France seized the Saar with its immensely valuable mines, as War booty.