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Chancellor Wilhelm Marx took the new German Cabinet?his fourth?before the Reichstag last week and obtained a vote of confidence 235 to 174, with only 18 abstentions...
Hindenburg's Letter: "The Reich's foreign and domestic political situation demands a strong workable Government. A Government will be able to function more successfully if it is supported by a majority in the Reichstag.* The construction of such a majority through inclusion of the Left parties is for the present at least impossible. Efforts to create a Government supported only by the middle parties have failed...
...therefore request you, Herr Chancellor, to undertake the construction of a Government on the basis of a majority of the middle class parties in the Reichstag with the most effective haste...
...same time I appeal to the Reichstag factions concerned to lay aside their personal doubts and differences in the interest of the Fatherland, to unite in collaboration under your leadership and to rally behind the Government which is resolved to work, not for or against individual parties, but faithful to the Constitution for the good of the Fatherland...
...Cabinet, as presented to President Hindenburg last week, though still requiring to be confirmed in office by the Reichstag...