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Crisis. When Foreign Minister Stresemann returned from Geneva a fortnight ago, bringing important concessions from the Allies†, the Marx Cabinet seemed secure amid generally favorable comment from the press and Reichstag deputies. Those who sought the Cabinet's overthrow had no quarrel with the foreign policy of able Dr. Stresemann. They left him out of the debate last week, and he will almost certainly succeed himself as Foreign Minister in whatever cabinet may be formed. Instead, the storm of opposition burst upon War Minister Otto Gessler, who has ten times filled that post...
...from January to May, 1926. A ponderous German "crisis" which may last for weeks or months before a new Chancellor is chosen loomed. During this period one more attempt will be made to form a stable "Big Coalition": the goal toward which successive Chancellors have striven in vain. The Reichstag adjourned last week until January...
Pictures and books and toys insidious were the "exhibits" piled high last week upon a great round table in the lobby of the German Reichstag and labeled Schund und Schmutz (Trash and Smut). Deputies, austere or mirthful, looked at them. To do so was their duty. They were about to vote upon the third and final reading of the bill creating a censorship committee (TIME, Nov. 29), Irate, the opponents of the bill pointed out that the Bible and at least half the classics of German literature could be suppressed as "obscene" if the law went into effect. None...
...Schund und Schmutz." Herr Doktor Wilhelm Kuelz, Minister of Interior, introduced before the Reichstag last week his Schundund Schmutz (Trash and Smut) bill creating a committee of five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed...
...hearty vote of thanks to Count Koudenhove-Kalergi for his industry in assembling such famed delegates as: Alexander Kerensky, Herr Paul Loebe (President of the German Reichstag), Chancellor Rudolf Ramek of Austria, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, onetime (1922-24) Chancellor of Austria...