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Chancellor Wilhelm Marx resigned. President Friedrich Ebert accepted the resignation; but it was not known whom he would ask to form a new government. It was generally assumed that his choice would be Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann...
Dissolution. The Chancellor, tired from his exertions, decided that it was impossible to reshuffle the Cabinet. Accordingly, he marched to the Berlin home of the German President, Herr Friedrich Ebert, and asked for dissolution of the Reichstag. After a short discussion, the President agreed...
...effective majority could thus be established in the Reichstag, Dr. Marx made overtures to the Nationalists. They refused, and the Democrats, affronted at the prospect of cooperating with the Nationalists, withdrew from the coalition. The continuance of the Cabinet became impossible, and at Chancellor Marx's request President Ebert is about to call a new election...
...stage was set for the interminable wrangling over the protocol of arbitration, security and disarmament, when news was flashed from Berlin that Dr. Gustav Stresemann, German Foreign Minister, quitted his sanitorium* bed, journeyed to the capital to take part in a memorable Cabinet meeting in President Ebert's Wilhelmstrasse residence, which ended in a unanimous decision to apply for membership in the League...
...German wags asserted that Foreign Minister Stresemann's malady was due to the chastisements he had received at the hands of President Ebert and Chancellor Marx. He had previously opposed Germany's entrance into the League, but the unanimous decision of the Cabinet, quoted above, showed that he had fallen into line with his chiefs...