Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-07-10
WMth Cabinet
Has Big Job Fixing
Up German Affairs

Berlin, July 9-(By A. P.)-Political
and economic issues of the gravest
Importance to th@continuance of the
Wirth cabinet in office await solution
at home and abroad this week, The
most prominent of these concerns the
reparations commissions attitude to.
ward the German governments pros
pectlVe request for revision of the
gold payments prescribed at Cannes.
At home DR.. Wirth is confronted
with combination of internal prob
lens, of which two at least are OF
sufficient magnitude to upset his min
istry, or make new Reichstag cleo
tons an immediate necessity. The
chancellor'S eortS to revamp and am
plify the present coalition through the
inclusion of the independent social
lists, and his determination to obtain
Tor the governments law for the de-
Nnse of the republic a clear and am
pie majority pre- supposes a parlia
mentary situation which less en-
numbered by partisan acerbities than
that prevailing ton. hit.
| In the Ruhr sector the government
is confronted with a walkout of the
miners, while the strike of the Berlin
printers which is tying up 20 bour-
geols newspapers in greater Berlin is
developing into ARCHAEOLOGICAL men
ace. lnasmuch as the bulk of the cap
i'ais population is without authentic
news at moment when the govern
ment is deeply concerned in protect
ing the public from disquietine
alarms.
Agsravating its political worries
the government is helplessly looking
on as the mark continues to decroa So
IN Faiue, portending further upsets in
the civil service wage budgets and
other financial calculations.
Chancellor Wirth's hopes of niIot-
ing the ship of state on the tr0ubIed
seas Tor the time being are built on
expectations that the reparations
commission will oil the waters and
on ms ability to trim the parliament
tary cargo. which just now is making
the snip list heavy. Contrary to cur
rent, reports, officials quarters as.
sert that no definite or formal re-
quest for moratorium has been sent
10 Parls and that Dr.. Fischer and
1efr Schroeder are merely function.
ing as scouts, instructed to ascer-
tam informally the commissions
attitude on the event the government
should decide TO make a lorna; re-
quest.
Inc government leaders do not
hesitate to vent the most bitter dis
appointment at the absence of moral
OF practical encouragement from the
Aliles IN the nations present plight
ana frankly assert that the German
republics chances of surviving arc
quite as much dependent upon good
VIII from obroad as from internal
unity
The fate of the German democra-
cE is constantly jcopardiZed. por-
maps unwillinsly, by the arbitrary
attitude of the creditor governments
as much as through the treacherv OF
reactlonary forces at home" was the
statement made Lv a official Of tho
foreign office today. The voluntary
evacuation of the three Ruhr cities
which are still uniustly occupied.
would be worth more to us psycholo-
slcaily than official kilograms of con-
dolence on the occasion of the mr.
der OF DIR. Rathenau.
our task of coordinating the re-
pubic would be immeasurablv light
ened by modest appreciation abroad
OF our many difficulties in, trying to
pcpularize democracy. We Welded
yielded and yielded again under ali
sorts of pressure, yet never once have
we experienced a modest indication
u reciprocal counter demonstra-
ton.
similar sentiments were encoun-
tered IN the Reichstag lobby. where
even the socialist leaders freely Law
stress on the desirability of hearing
lie" well chosen words for German
democracy from the western repub-
lie
The question whether the cabinet
viii be amplified to the right or left
and the controversy over the draft
or the defense law are at present
"hoily engrossing the Reichstap
party. Dr. Wirth is personally deter
mined to extend the coalition to tho
ieit. preferrlns the active support OF
ooth socialist parti-5, to the f1uctuat-
ing good will of the peoples party.
whose inclusion in the cabinet the
chancellor is convinced would cause
break with the radicals.
DR.. Wirth is categorically opposed to
heading cabinet in which the labor
parties have only minority represen-
fation. He believes that the republic
cannot be fortified without the undi.
Vided support Ct the Socialists ineu-
ence. and is also convinced he will he
deprived OF sure parliamentary an.