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Observers recalled how he had sped from Moscow to Berlin (TIME, Oct. 12) in an effort to keep Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany from going to the now famous Locarno Conference. From croaking throats came prophecies that M. Tchitcherin's presence in Paris last week foreboded a Communist uprising in France. To heads more subtle it appeared that M. Tchitcherin was at length approaching perilously near the truth when he spoke as follows to correspondents: "So! Let there be no rumors, gentlemen! I am merely passing through Paris on my way from Germany to Mentone [French Riviera...
Hitherto the Luther-Stresemann Government has been able to count with certainty upon the support of only the Centrist Parties. After deliberating for two hours last week, the Socialist caucus announced positively that it would throw in its lot with the Government. On that basis Chancellor Luther was generally conceded to have secured more than enough votes to insure ratification of the Locarno Pacts by the Reichstag. When the Reichsrat* endorsed the treaties, last week, by a vote of 34 to 4, the prophecy was considered to have become a certainty...
Heretofore the Nationalists have cried that the Allies were not "keeping faith" with Germany, and Herr Stresemann has been severely embarrassed by taunts that at Locarno he had "swallowed" Allied promises to evacuate the Rhineland which would never be kept...
...Herr Stresemann has been employing the radio and every possible agency through which the will of the people may be swayed and made evident. Meanwhile political dicerings continued behind the scenes. The boldest guesses dared not predict in what combination the 14 parties in the German Reichstag will line up before the treaties...
...Herr Schiele and the Nationalists of course joined Stresemann in branding the statement as false...