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Cabinet from the ranks of the present Reichstag is immaterial; the so-called crisis is bound to continue, for it will be dependent for its existence on the Right and then on the Left as occasion demands...
...position is that the Reichstag contains 493 members, 247 of whom would form a bare majority. The Right Block commands only 216 votes; the Left Block, including the Centre Party, but excluding the Communists, has only 232 votes. A majority Cabinet is therefore impossible unless the Centre Party (69 members) joins the Right, or the German People's Party (51 members) joins the Left; but this neither Party will...
...President, exhausted, decided to let the crisis wear itself out. Chancellor Marx and his Government are to stay in office until Jan. 5, when the Reichstag convenes...
...Proposal. Interest in the ultimate solution of the Cabinet puzzle was not lacking in Reichstag circles. Among the many proposals was the suggestion that ex-Chancellor Hermann Muller, leader of the Social Democratic Party, should form a Cabinet composed of Social Demo- crats, Centrists and members of the German People's Party. This plan, however, was thought likely to end in failure as had Chancellor Marx's identical attempt...
Another Proposal. A more practical suggestion was contained in the proposal that Dr. Gessler, Democrat and present Minister of Defense, should head a Cabinet composed of members of all the Reichstag parties...