LETTERS
LETTERS Condrudive Editors: I wish to compliment you on the Summer, 1961 issue of DISSENT. It is a constructive, revealing, often startling portrait of a city written by men and women who...
...The action of Prince Max was either illegal, and then Ebert was not Chancellor, or it was legal, and then Ebert was not the first Chancellor of the Republic but the last Chancellor of the Monarchy...
...Ebert assumed the title "Reichskanzler" but had to abandon it on the following day, because the Independent Socialists would not join the government unless it was called "Council of People's Commissars" and Ebert's title was changed to "chairman...
...Please keep up the good work...
...Minister Repnin fell in one day from the heights of power into the most profound obscurity...
...nobody dares remember him, nobody dares even believe in his life, not his present life but his past life...
...That is why Russia does not know today if the minister who governed it yesterday existed...
...The Next Step...
...Thus Ebert was indeed the first Chancellor of the Republic, as George Kennan has written...
...My one criticism of "New York, N. Y." is that it appears to be a bit one-sided in its presentation...
...Well, here are the "facts": on November 9, 1918, the Emperor William II fled and left the government in the hands of Prince Max von Baden, his last Chancellor...
...Rabasseire is to be technical, I might reply: formally the Kaiser did not abdicate until November 28 and according to the old Constitution, he alone could nominate a Chancellor...
...HENRI RABASSEIRE Henry Pachter replies: I stand corrected...
...The latter then invited Ebert to form a government, while Schneidemann outside was proclaiming the Republic...
...If Mr...
...Editors: You will find enclosed a money order for 2 years at $5...
...The Village Beat Scene" by Ned Polsky, and Daniel M. Friedenberg's excellent "Real Estate Confidential...
...However, I don't belifive it misses the mark by very far, if, indeed, it misses at all...
...Your truly, J. K. R. Justice for Kennan Editors: Mr...
...Pachter's attack on Kennan not only is vicious but unprofessional too...
...I am a devoted sub...
...criber of the far right wing but yours is the only really mentally stimulating publication of this type...
...It's Later Than You Think WANT TO SLOW DOWN...
...I am not a Socialist but am always ready to listen, debate and to learn...
...I was especially impressed by "Harlem, My Harlem" by Claude Brown...
...Pachter writes "a historian must have his facts right" and then takes Kennan to task for giving Friedrich Ebert the title "chancellor...
...It is a constructive, revealing, often startling portrait of a city written by men and women who care about both its present and future...
...To the Republic he was its first and only chairman of the council of people's commissars, until his elevation to the Presidency on February 11, 1919...
...Here's the cutest, most novel paperweight you've ever seen...
...From an entry in the Journal of the French Marquis de ustine who was in Russia in the 1930s...
...but I still maintain that in explaining who Ebert was, it is more relevant to introduce him as "Germany's first president...
...Looks like polished granite, but it's just a heavy, realistic miniature tombstone in hydrocal ..• embellished with a provocative chiselcarved saying, 4...
...Nifty gift for anyone with a deskl o 3631-Tomb Paperweight .. _. $1 -From a Mail Order Catalogue This Item Is Dated •.• July 21, 1839...
...high with weighted base...
...With great pomp Mr...
...You label DISSENT a "Quarterly of Socialist Opinion...
Vol. 9 • January 1962 • No. 1
