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...party a huge plurality in the Reichstag (TIME, May 28), Socialist Muller at first failed for 17 days to assemble a Cabinet able to command a majority. Nine major parties continued deadlocked. Jeers were heard about "A Cabinet by Christmas!" No one seemed much impressed by Hermann Müller's owlish spectacles, low voice, plaintive air. And yet the Socialist plurality is now too large for a Cabinet to be formed by a Prime Minister of any other party...
...President von Hindenburg then called to the Prime Ministry Herr Hermann Müller, prominent Socialist, onetime manual laborer, signer of the Versailles Treaty and head of an undistinguished Cabinet in 1920. Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer...
Next Herr Koch, chairman of the Democratic Party, was invited to try his hand. He concocted a tentative cabinet which was to include four sometime Chancellors: Luther, Stresemann, Marx and Müller. Shortly it was found that even with this impressive group of ministers Herr Koch would be unable to compose the differences between the People's Party and the Socialists, who in the past have made a "big coalition" impossible...
Artists. Miss Müller, soprano, sang with a sincerity marred only by irrelevant smiles in certain love-scenes; Signer Lauri-Volpi (Gallurese) turned himself into a human cornet; Conductor Tullio Serafin imposed upon the wavering score his own electrifying power. At the close of each act, Montemezzi appeared before the curtain, bowed, smiled. On one of these occasions, a lackey delivered to him a floral wreath...
...Ignaz Seipel, Austrian Chancellor, Herr Grüberger, Foreign Minister, and Herr Schüller, Foreign Office Departmental Chief, left Vienna for Bucharest, capital of Rumania, where they expected to sign a politico-economic treaty...