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...final strength of parties will not be known until after the new Reichstag (elected a fortnight ago) meets on May 22. The Socialists, according to late information, obtained 100 seats, and the Nationalists 96. The latter, however, claim nine votes of the Landbund Party, which would give them 105 seats and make them the largest party in the Reichstag. This question is to be settled by vote of the Reichstagers...
When completed, the new Reichstag will have about 475-485 members.* Of these, Centrists, German People's Party and the variously-opinioned Nationalists number about 300. All these actually favor a return to monarchial government, but most of them support the Republic. The new Reichstag is, therefore, predominantly Monarchist in sentiment, but committed to upholding the Republican régime...
...expected, the result of the German election revealed gains for the Monarchists (Nationalists) and Communists and losses for the Moderates. The new Reichstag is vastly more interesting than the last but will undoubtedly prove more turbulent. The Moderates, however, secured a majority, but are not in such a strong position as formerly. Groups. A provisional list of the new Reichstagers by groups: Moderates 229 Monarchists 141 Communists 59 Others 19 Individuals. Among the more prominent men elected or reflected: Chancellor Marx (Moderate), Foreign Minister Stresemann (Moderate), Count von Bernstorff, ex-German Ambassador to the U. S. (Moderate), ex-Chancellor Wirth...
Significance. Because of numerous interpellations of the coalition Government's fiscal policy, put forward under the Special Full Power Emer- gency Act of last October, Chancellor Marx called upon President Ebert to dissolve the Reichstag (TIME, March 24). Since that time, however, the Dawes report entered very actively into German politics and became coalesced with the financial reforms championed by the Government. The return of this Government to power signifies the acceptance of the Dawes plan by a majority of the German nation; but the plan cannot be passed without the Monarchists' support, for its railway clauses require...
...continued trend toward the Right and Left was taken in some quarters as an ominous portent for the coming Reichstag election (May 4). Many moderate Germans professed keen alarm over the effect of the Bavarian election in foreign countries...