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...attitude of the German Government concerning his exile has been that he went voluntarily to Holland in order to avoid causing trouble to his country. His latest appeal to the Government was said to have been made on the basis of the permission granted him by the then Chancellor Wirth. He also pointed out that " he considers it necessary for the sake of his children, and that it is also his right to return to his wife and family...
...Bavarian Dr. Gessler to the post of Military Dictator of Germany, a position formerly filled with varying success by William of Hohenzollern, was made by President Ebert. Dr. Gessler was described as an opportunist. He has been in three successive Cabinets, each of which has had a separate policy: Wirth Government, pledged to paying reparations; Cuno Government, pledged to maintaining passive resistance and refusing to pay reparations; Stresemann Government, pledged to seeking an exit from political, financial and economic depression. To each of these Governments the versatile Gessler has given his wholehearted support. He is considered an able orator...
...triumph for reaction is seen in the recent resignation of the Wirth government which has traveled a rough road since it took charge in May, 1921. The Chancellor's attempt to form a coalition of the Socialists and the German People's party ended in failure and the latter will probably control the new cabinet...
...Wirth, himself of the Centre Party, sought a Reichstag majority by placing in his cabinet a large proportion of Socialists. But the Rathenau murder and the Bavarian revolt revealed a strong monarchistic reaction which enlisted the industrialists headed by Hugo Stinnes and which concealed itself under the name of Liberal or People's Party. Hence the Wirth cabinet had arrayed against it not only the avowed monarchical Conservatives but the powerfully influential industrialists of the People's Party...
Against such opposition doubly strengthened by Stinnes' control of the press, Dr. Wirth had little chance either greatly to centralize the control of the federal government or to bring early stabilization of the mark. The industrialists, in their role of opposition, permitted the mark steadily to decline thus filling then pockets it and harassing their political control. Their pre-war debts have practically disappeared; the wages they must pay have risen relatively slowly; and all business they do outside of Germany brings them a hand-some profit. So they oil the printing press and drew another trunk load of paper...