Notes

According to Berlin despatches, ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm has completed a book, shortly to be published, entitled I Seek the Truth. It is allegedly an attempt to disprove the charge that Germany was responsible for the War.

Owing to the overcrowding of a pontoon, 84 Reichswehr soldiers lost their lives in the swift River Weser during Army maneuvers. The Reichstag held a "mourning session," flags were at half mast all over Germany.

Last week was "Colonial Week" -a reminder that 60,000,000 Germans living in an overpopulated country still have colonial aspirations. At a semi-scientific meeting, at which Reichsbank President Schacht and Explorer Duke Johann von Mecklenburg were present, the "Bayer 205" serum against sleeping sickness was discussed in relation to its possible utility in Africa. The right for Germany to cooeperate in exterminating that dread disease was claimed. Underneath this talk was the conviction that Germany's lost African colonies should be restored, since German scientists can make Africa healthy and safe for humanity.

Despite Monarchist opposition, the

Budapesterstrasse was renamed the Friedrich Ebertstrasse in memory of Germany's first President (TIME, Mar. 30).

Arrived in Berlin Dr. Schreiber, Austrian Minister of Art and Culture. His presence gave rise to outbursts of Pan Germanism (union of Germany and Austria). The Austrian Minister was on a private visit, but he lost no opportunity to stress the common interests of the two countries. He described himself as a friend, not a foreigner.

The Union of German Churches, seeking the means to reduce the large number of weekly suicides in Germany, discovered from statistics that love and money (not hunger) are the causes of most suicides, that 32% of the total are committed on Mondays.

An official Agricultural Commission, the first to travel abroad since the War, left Bremen for the U. S. to study the progress made in U. S. agriculture during the past ten years. Members of the Commission: Prof. Theodor Brinkmann of Bonn University, Prof. George Keuhne of Munich University, Prof. Theodor Roemer of Halle University, Herr Joachim Deiche, large farmowner.