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Sweltering Deputies of the Reichstag last fortnight persuaded Vice President von Kardorff to relax his iron rule against sitting in shirtsleeves for the first time. Journalistic pressure last week moved...
...Herr von Kardorff to waive the anti-shirtsleeve rule covering occupants of the press gallery, and for good measure the visitors' gallery was permitted to take off its coat...
President Ebert, unable to dissolve the Reichstag and hold an election owing to the disturbed condition of the country, found himself in a dilemma. He offered the vacant Chancellorship in turn to Herr von Kardorff, Dr. Hergt and Dr. Heinrich F. Albert; all refused. Finally, the President wrote to Dr. Albert: "It having become obviously impossible at this time to form a Government on the basis of a parliamentary majority, I must ask you to override the scruples and hesitation which you previously expressed to me and to form a Cabinet...
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