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After a protracted period of futile negotiations with the Monarchists, Chancellor Marx told President Ebert that he had decided to continue in power with the old Cabinet (TIME, Dec. 10). The first appearance of the Cabinet in the Reichstag was greeted with howls of derision from the Communists. Referring to the Experts' Report (Dawes Plan) Chancellor Marx said: "The Government is convinced that all internal questions, no matter how important, must yield precedence to matters of foreign policy, which are important alike to German unity and German economic life. The Government will devote all its energy to -the work...
There is an old saying to the effect that oil and water will not mix-neither will Monarchists and Communists. That fact was amply brought out in the Reichstag on its opening day. The first scene was one of simple, solemn sensation: General Erich von Ludendorff held court, his admirers standing stiffly at attention before him. He drank a glass of beer, shook hands formally with each Monarchy man who was presented to him. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz tripped timorously into the Reichstag. Photographers tried to "snap" him as he went, but in his well-known genial manner...
...report: General Erich von Ludendorff, sporting the Iron Cross upon his bosom, dressed in a blue serge suit, badly in need of pressing, "stalked" into the corridors of the Reichstag. Party wrangling ceased. Reichstagers were awed by his lordly presence...
Another report: Erich entered the Reichstag "furtively." No one heeded him except his own Freedom Party, which cheered and referred to him as "one who has rendered great services to his country and will continue...
Georges Weil, once a member for Alsace in the German Reichstag, was elected a Deputy for Alsace in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris...