The New York herald., 1922-07-10
WIRTH GOVERNMENT
FACES CRISIS TO-DAY
Continued from First Page.
French to further occupation of Germany
or further measures of control.
wirth Faces Many Problems.

Wirth Faces Many Problems.
BERLIN, July (Assoclated Press).-
Political and economic issues Of tbs
gravest Importance to the continuance OF
the wirth Cabinet In Office await soiu-
tion at home and abroad this week. The
most prominent Of these concerns the
Reparations Commissions attitude to-
ward the German Governments prospec-
tive request for a revision of the gold
payments prescribed at Cannes,
At home DR.. Wirth is confronted with
a combination of internal problems. of
which two at least are of sufficient mag
nitude to upset his Ministry or make
new Reichstag elections an immediate
necessity. The Chancellor Is striving to
revamp and amplify the present coalition
through the inclusion Of the Independent
Socialists and to obtain for the Gov
ernment's law for the defense of the re-
public a clear and ample majority.
The strike cs the Berlin printers.
which. is tying up twenty bourgeois
newspapers in Greater Berlin. is de-
veloping into a psychological menace,
inasmuch as the bulk of the capitals
population is without authentic news q,
moment when the Government Is
deeply concerned In protecting the pub
lie from disquieting alarms.
Aggravating its poliucal worries. the
Government is helplessly looking on as
the mark continues to decrease In
value. portending further upsets in the
civil service wage budgets and other
financial calculations.
Contrary to current reports, oficlal
quarters assert that no definite or for
NAL request for a moratorium has been
sent to Paris and that DIR. Fischer and
Herr Schroeder are merely functioning
as scouts, instructed to- ascertain in
formally the commissions attitude In
the event the Government should decide
to make a formal request.
The Government leaders do not hesi-
tate to vent the most bitter diSappoint-
ment at the absence of moral or prac-
tical encouragement from the Allies in
the nations present plight, and frankly
assert that the German Republics s
chances of surviving are quite as much
dependent upon good will from abroad
as from internal unity.
The fate of the German democracy
is constantly Jeopardized, perhaps un-
Willingly. by the arbitrary attitude Of
the creditor Governments. as much as
through the treachery OF reactionary
forces at home." was the statement made
by an official of the Foreign Office to-
day. THE voluntary evacuation Of the
three Ruhr cities. which are still un-
Justly occupied. would be worth more
to US psycholosically than official tele-
grams of coincidence on the occasion of
the murder OF DIR. Rathenau.
''Our task of coordinating the re-
public would be immeasurably lightened
by modest appreciation abroad of our
many difficulties in trying to popularize
democracy We yielded. yielded and
yielded again under all sorts of pres
sure. vet never once have we experienced
a modest indication of a reciprocal
counter demonstration"
Similar sentiments we're encountered
in the Reichstag lobby, where even the
Socialist leaders freely lay stress on
the desirability of hearing a few well
chosen words for German democracy
from the Western republics.