Word: reichstager
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...outlined last week (TIME, Dec 10) the first act of the new Marx Cabinet was to ask for plenary powers to govern the country for an indefinite period without reference to the Reichstag...
...first act of the new Chancellor was prophesied to be a demand for dictatorship. If the Reichstag pass the motion, and it seemingly depended on the Socialist attitude, then the Cabinet has a tenuous chance of holding power until next Summer when a general election is due. "If," as the Vorwaerts put it, "there is a conflict between the Reichstag and the Marx Cabinet, the Reichstag is certain of dissolution." This can only mean a premature general election at a most inauspicious time...
...Wilhelm Marx, 60 years of age, has had a seat in the Reichstag for twelve years. Formerly he was a member of the Prussian Diet. He is, at present, leader of the Catholic Party, National head of the Catholic School Association and a judge in Cologne...
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...
...Albert then called upon the President and promised to form a Cabinet, but it is unlikely that he will succeed. This means that the Reichstag will have to be dissolved and a real dictatorship set up, or a general election held...