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Throughout the week President von Hindenburg continued his desultory search for a new Chancellor (TIME, Dec. 14). Although the Luther cabinet has officially resigned, it continues to function according to German custom until a new Chancellor is appointed. Thus the government of the Deutsches Reich went on exactly as before...
...Herr Koch vanished into the political limbo, rumors were again current that Dr. Luther will have to resume in name the office which he still exercises in fact, and continue to carry on with a minority government. Meanwhile President von Hindenburg announced that he would declare a Christmas recess on all attempts to form a cabinet. Observers opined that the matter may drift unsettled well into the New Year, since no emergency threatens...
President von Hindenburg was universally expected to ask Dr, Luther to form the new Cabinet, with the foregone conclusion that he would ask Herr Stresemann to return as Foreign Minister. According to custom the members of a German Cabinet that has resigned continue to exercise their respective powers until their successors are appointed. There is thus no need for immediate action on the part of President von Hindenburg. Well informed observers opined that New Year's Day might come and go before the new Cabinet is created...
...conclusion, the Chancellor reiterated his solemn promise (TIME, Nov. 26) that the Cabinet would resign as soon as the Locarno Pacts should be signed at London, in order that President von Hindenburg may secure the formation of a new and, it is hoped, a stronger Government than the present one. It was only by making this promise that Dr. Luther secured the Socialists' votes for the Treaties. They of course hope to be well represented in the new Cabinet...
Later, eight of the Baron's war comrades bore the coffin to the famed Invaliden Cemetery, while German aces who had fought with him during the War soared above the funeral procession and dropped flowers and wreaths.* President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther and War Minister Gessler solemnly accompanied the aging mother of Baron von Richthofen to his new grave. And there were present scores of generals from all parts of Germany, as well as a company of the Baron's Uhlan regiment, which fired a last salute over his grave...