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...election was announced for Apr. 26, at which candidates will required only to obtain a relative majority. The Socialists, Catholic and Democrats were believed likely to unite in support of a single candidate, probably ex-Chancellor Wilhelm Marx. If they do, a Republican President is certain to be elected. The Nationalists (Monarchists), however, were not without hope that the opposition parties would continue to be split, in which case victory is assuredly theirs, advisability of running a more forceful and popular candidate than Herr Jarres was discussed. The names of Chancelor Luther and former Minister of War Gessler were mentioned...
...question of whether or no Britain is to replace sterling on a gold basis has drawn businessmen, bankers, economists and others into a keen controversy. Recently, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna and the sensational John Maynard Keynes were called to the bar of the House of Lords to give their views on the gold question. Mr. McKenna was in favor of resuming gold pay ments; not so Mr. Keynes. The latter, has by now developed an instinctive hatred of anything suggestive of currency and price deflation. Revision to a gold standard, he says, would merely render Britain subservient...
...second election, it is expected that Socialists, Democrats and Centrists will join forces to elect a purely Republican Candidate. Ex-Chancellor Wilhelm Marx seemed their probable choice; but it would be rash to predict that he will win, for the attitude of the Socialists toward a Catholic candidate is not likely to be unanimous and the monarchically inclined parties were considered just as likely to coalesce in the last effort to snatch a victory. It seems a fair assumption that either Marx or Jarres will be Germany's next President...
Catholics. The candidate of the Centre or Catholic Party is ex-Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, a priest. Herr Marx cannot be elected President by his own Party but must count on a heavy Socialist vote. It seems unlikely that the Socialists, who are Protestants, will vote for a Catholic priest; but the Catholic Party tried to bring pressure to bear on the Socialists by reminding them that it was mainly by virtue of the Catholic vote that the late Herr Ebert was appointed President...
...deprived of any military pomp. A vast crowd of notables, who had arrived in 43 special trains, formed a long and impressive queue of mourners. Among them were Frau Ebert, two Fraulein Ebert, Ebert's only son, a brother and a sister, Chancellor Luther, Reichstag President Lobe, ex-Chancellor Marx...