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Minister of Foreign Affairs?Dr. Gustav Stresemann (People's Party...
Telegram. From Baden Baden, famed spa, a sick man telegraphed to break the deadlock. His signature read simply "Stresemann." The great Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner wired: "From the start I have regarded skeptically the attempt to establish a Ministry on the basis of a program approved beforehand by the various parties." He continued that, although it seemed "psychologically scarcely possible" for Herr Muller to forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them...
Hindenburg Helps. Though the Stresemann telegram seemed to offer a plausible solution, difficulties continued to crop up and 48 hours later the press received an impression that Hermann Muller was about to return his mandate for forming a cabinet to President von Hindenburg. Just after breakfast, next morning, the old Feldmarschall received Herr Müller, spoke weighty words and crisp. Before the day was out Germans had a resplendent "Cabinet of Personalities...
...famed People's Party of world-esteemed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann asked as the price of his continuance in the German Cabinet that other members of their party be included in the Prussian Cabinet...
...182.Herr Miiller, badly worried, appealed to Dr. Stresemann "as a man above party," thereby causing him to arise from his sick bed for a conference with the various leaders. Though the issue was uncertain, Germans looked to Great Dr. Stresemann to solve their cabinet crisis...