Arizona republican., 1919-06-23
Peace Determines Cabinet

WEIMAR, Saturday. June 21.-(hs the Associated Press)-Gernany ac- quired a new cabinet after a week of literal sweating in blazing Weimar weather The signing of. the peace terms naturally was the only question around which the cabinet construction hinged and the government which went on record as considering the terms unacceptable, found a surprising ' following behind them.
 The first party ballots, however seemed to make the signing of the treaty inevitable, for the powerful majority socialist party voted two- thirds for ending the suspense. With the independents supporting them. the conservatives, as a party. behind them and the centrists on the fence, the re-
 But the conservatives suddenly swung around and declared for non signature, the centrists wavered and i imposed conditions, and the democrs. temporarily baked any hope of ma jority by stubbornly persisting against the extradition by the entente of the notables.
 This was the stumbling block. fui the democrats could not be budged from the attitude which they held. through the belief that a revolution would break out by the people if voii Hindenburg and General Ludendorff and others be humiliated.
 Count von Bernstorff played a prominent part in the proceedings, not only as president of the German peace committee, but, according to persis- tent rumors, as the possible successor of Count von Brockdorff- -Rantzau, for there was a powerful group that wanted him to suffer the poetic justice of signing the terms, after he had helped to bring the United States into the war
 Won Bernstorff Refuses Won Bernstorff, however, resisted
 and after having been appointed in the morning to the cabinet, refused to accept the appointment or have any thing to do with the matter T Later in the day, the centristS
 dropped their demand for modified
 tion of the terms and expressed their willingness to sign. The demands also
 weakened to such an extent that if !. teen of their 65 members in the assem-
 bly, went over to the side in favor of signature.
 . The first ministry headed by Herr , Bauer lasted exactly one hour r. crashed on the stubborrnness of tn, . democrats and von Bernstorffs fla- refusal to head the ministry of foreign : affairs. Dr. Dernberg, who had been l named minister of finance, declared he could not cooperate. The democrats [ then reduced their demands to one l point, on which they were adamant,
 namely, that the former German em-
 peror. von Hindenburg and Luden f dorff must not be delivered to the
 entente for trial.
 . Eventually, the Bauer cabinet was I reconstructed with Dr. Herman Auel Ter the majority socialist leader, as e minister of foreign affairs, and Ma s thias Erzberger as minister of finance and vice premier.
 In his first speech in the afternoon Premier Bauer outlined his program : to the peace commission of the as t sefnbly.
 Count von Brockdorff- -Rantzau vii : leave Weimar tomorrow for a vaca , ton i'll his private capacity. Herr Bauer, the new premier. had
 hitherto scarcely been mentioned fol s the position Prior to his appointment S as labor minister he was secretary ol . the labor unions of Germany. He is
 rated as long headed conserj
 socialist.