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Socialists. The Social Democratic Party (Socialists) ignored the Catholic pleas and nominated Herr Otto Braun, ex-Minister President of Prussia, as their candidate for the Presidency. This probably means that the Catholics, many of whom are Monarchists, especially those from South Germany, will be driven, through lack of support for their own candidate, to vote for the Monarchist nominee. The same applies to the Democrats, who are not going to nominate a candidate of their...
...Diet elected him Minister President (Premier) by a meagre majority after ex-Minister Braun had declined for a second time to carry on the State's government (TIME, Feb. 2). Etiquette prescribed that Minister Marx should appear before the Diet, announce his Cabinet, obtain a vote of confidence...
...future. Thought he: "The Monarchists and the Republicans are evenly divided. In order to obtain some measure of Socialist support, I must have a Socialist colleague." He chose as Minister of the Interior Herr Severing, who has long acted in that capacity under ex-Minister Braun. But the ruse did not work. Last week the Diet refused a vote of confidence by 221 to 219 votes. Minister Marx became ex-Minister Marx. Prussia again lacked a government...
Recently, the German People's Party (semi-Monarchists) withdrew its two members-Herr Richter, Minister of Finance, Herr Doktor Boelitz, Minister of Education from the Socialist Government of Prussia, headed by Herr Otto Braun. Premier Braun took over the vacant portfolios...
...motion was then introduced declaring that Premier Braun, as Minister of Education, lacked the Diet's confidence. Voting resulted 220 for the 217 against. Loud cheering from Monarchists, People's Party and Communists, who declared that the Government must resign. Herr Bartels, Socialist Speaker, was of a different opinion. He declared that a vote of no confidence required an absolute majority of the 450 Deputies that form the Diet (226) ; this number they had failed to obtain...