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...long terms as Finance Minister and sometimes Chancellor, have built up the political and financial base upon which the new Republic squarely rests. Dr. Luther is out of politics at present, was elected a Krupp director last week. But Dr. Stresemann continues at the Foreign Office. So does Dr. Gessler, Minister of Defense since 1920, a prodigious record. It is these statesmen of the middle parties, the "Little Coalition" men, who have wrought the ship of the Republic so strong that last week the Nationalists saw no option but to climb aboard...
Minister of Defense?Dr. OTTO GESSLER (Independent...
...overthrow had no quarrel with the foreign policy of able Dr. Stresemann. They left him out of the debate last week, and he will almost certainly succeed himself as Foreign Minister in whatever cabinet may be formed. Instead, the storm of opposition burst upon War Minister Otto Gessler, who has ten times filled that post...
...Cabinet's "Little Coalition" was of the Centre, shrewdly designed to weave and weasel between the Socialist Left and the Nationalist Right. The Nationalists have been supporting Herr Gessler because they thought he was preparing in secret an army of revenge; while the Socialists have credited him with building up a force to bulwark the Republic against Nationalist attempts to restore the Monarchy. Since Herr Gessler's activities have been carried on in secret these two antithetical impressions could exist. The facts about Germany's "secret army" have, however, been rather thoroughly aired at a series...
...outranked by the generals commanding the two German army corps. Thus the proud title of General von Seeckt, amounting to "Chief of Staff" (ever a bugaboo to the Allies), has been placed ingeniously in abeyance. The new Chef will serve merely as an adviser to Defense Minister Gessler...