File No. 763.72/3568
The Minister in Denmark ( Egan) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 22, 8 a.m.]
513. Hamburg Fremdenblatt, March 20, says that as a result of the Chancellor’s recent speech in regard to the contemplated alteration in the system of election in Prussia after the war the Socialist leader Scheidemann published an article in Vorwärts in which he, while referring to the revolution in Russia, strongly urges that a bill be placed immediately before the Reichstag granting the population of Prussia equal suffrage for electing members to the Reichstag. The Fremdenblatt states that the article of Scheidemann has caused the greatest sensation in political circles in Berlin.