Modern European history . \Lonfji/iui£ East from |6 Greeriwicft \ ^.tioinholra. Bay ^^~i^d^g. PRESENT PROBLEMS 381 country to the cities. One of the divisions of Berlin, with a populationof 697,000, elects one representative, whereas the petty principahty ofWaldeck, with a population of 59,000, elects one. The 851,000 votersof Greater Berlin return eight members; the same number of voters in fifty of the smaller constituen-cies return forty-eight. Areform of these gross inequal-ities is widely demanded. Another subject which hasrecently received great em-phasis is that concerning min-isterial
Modern European history . \Lonfji/iui£ East from |6 Greeriwicft \ ^.tioinholra. Bay ^^~i^d^g. PRESENT PROBLEMS 381 country to the cities. One of the divisions of Berlin, with a populationof 697,000, elects one representative, whereas the petty principahty ofWaldeck, with a population of 59,000, elects one. The 851,000 votersof Greater Berlin return eight members; the same number of voters in fifty of the smaller constituen-cies return forty-eight. Areform of these gross inequal-ities is widely demanded. Another subject which hasrecently received great em-phasis is that concerning min-isterial responsi- . The demandbihty. The m- for ministe-discretions of rial respon-Emperor WilliamII have made this one of theburning questions. An inter-view with him, in which hespoke with great freedom ofthe strained relations betweenGermany and Great Britain,was published in the LondonTelegraph on October 28, once was seen a phenome-non not witnessed in Germanysince the founding of the Em-pire. There was a violent popular protest against the irresponsibleactions of the Emperor, actions
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