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This Cabinet is virtually the same as that of ex-Chancellor Gustav Stresemann, the only changes being in the Ministers of Food, Economy and Justice and, of course, in the Chancellorship. Dr. Marx, although an old politician, is not reputed to be a strong man, and, if the Cabinet lasts, the power in Germany will remain precisely where it was during the last Government, i. e., in the hands of Stresemann, Jarres and General von Seeckt, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichwehr. It follows as an unavoidable corollary that the policy of the present Government will not be changed...
President Ebert, unable to dissolve the Reichstag and hold an election owing to the disturbed condition of the country, found himself in a dilemma. He offered the vacant Chancellorship in turn to Herr von Kardorff, Dr. Hergt and Dr. Heinrich F. Albert; all refused. Finally, the President wrote to Dr. Albert: "It having become obviously impossible at this time to form a Government on the basis of a parliamentary majority, I must ask you to override the scruples and hesitation which you previously expressed to me and to form a Cabinet...
...Chancellorship of Oxford is an honorary post, now held by the Marquis Curzon. The Vice Chancellor is selected for a period of years from among the heads of the various colleges. He is the chief disciplinary officer, is really a super-military police of the Oxford lanes...
Herbert S. Hadley, former Governor of Missouri, accepted the Chancellorship of Washington University, St. Louis. Stepping into the ranks of college presidents, he finds himself the only one who has held high political office in this country and the only one who was ever almost-President of the United States...
...Admiralty, Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame as President of the Board of Trade, Neville Chamberlain as Minister of Health, Edward F. L. Wood as President of the Board of Education, Sir Robert A. Sanders as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Sir Montagu Barlow as Minister of Labor. Baldwin combines the Chancellorship of the Exchequer with the Premiership for the time being. This is the first time that the two offices have been held by one man since 1880, when Gladstone combined them for the second time...