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...reason for this state of affairs is that most of the legal luminaries are Monarchists, who held most of the good jobs in the Kaisers' days- a fact which explains the intellectual superiority of the Monarchist over the antiMonarchist Parties. Recently, Republican Judge Kroner, referring to the Ebert libel suit (TIME, Jan. 5), said a ruling of Monarchist Judge Bewersdorff was "malignant, vulgar, cowardly and impudent." The latter did not take these hard words kindly and was prompt to institute legal proceedings against his Republican colleague. Last week, the case was tried before a Monarchist Judge, who had previously...
President Friedrich Ebert nevertheless requested Chancellor Marx to make a last effort to form a majority Government. The Chancellor tried, failed. The President then asked the Chancellor to form a so-called nonparty Cabinet-a Cabinet of all the parties except the Communists. The Chancellor began to try. It was assumed that the present Cabinet with its four vacancies would be kept in power, but it was not known who would fill the vacancies...
...Gobert, described by the Monarchist press as "an honest simple- minded fellow," corroborated the evidence given by Syrig by stating that Herr Ebert had exhorted all workmen to ignore orders to join the Army...
...Monarchists called him) found that Editor Rothardt was guilty of insulting the President, sentenced him to three months in jail and payment of all costs of the trial. Not content with sentencing the defendant, he proceeded to sentence the plaintiff by declaring that whether or no Herr Ebert joined the strikers to end the strike was immaterial, that he was technically guilty of treason -the President of the German Republic was a traitor. The Judge had killed two birds with the proverbial stone...
...Berlin, the Cabinet marched in a body to the Presidential mansion and expressed to the President their unbounded faith in him and their gratitude for his great patriotism. But to the man-in-the-street, the verdict was summed up: "President Ebert committed treason against Germany, but you must go to jail for calling him a traitor." Indeed, if the President were guilty of treason, it would seem that Editor Rothardt ought not to have been sentenced; conversely, it goes by implication that the sentence against Rothardt exculpates the President...