New-York tribune., 1922-11-17
Germ any Not
Hopeful as Cuno
b uilds Cabinet
Hamburg-American Line Di-
rector Accepts Task; No
'sVeiled Coalition viii
Win Over the Socialists
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

Copyright, 1892, New York Tribune Inc
BERLIN, Nov. 16.--Wilhelm Cuno, di-
rector Of the Hamburg American Line,
to-day accepted the invitation of Presi-
dent Ebert to fern new Cabinet. He
Immediately entered into conferences
| with party leaders in an effoft to form
government made up of strong per.
sonalities from all the parties of the
country, from the Peoples Party to the
Socialists. 1t seems doubtful tonight,
however, whether he will succeed in his
task, since the Socialists are understood
to have declared themselves as violent
lily opposed to any Cabinet which rep
resents for them thinly veiled coali.
tion with the Peoples party, of the
same order, which was proposed and
which they rejected prior to Chancellor
/ Wirth's resignation.
The Socialists, who have regarded
Herr Cuno personally favorably, say
tonight they will cooperate with a
Cabinet along the lines he plans pro-
vided that it's bourgeois members do
not include men associated in Parlia-
ment with the various bourgeois par
ties to which they. as individuals. may
belong. Herr Cuno's proposal to name
Gustave Stresemann as Foreign Min
lister has met with the Socialists posi-
tive rejection. The Socialists, how
ever, say they will accept a Cabinet
that consists entirely of experts who
/ ~, :
policy of the late Wirth government
and to put through the reparations
program outlined in ex-Chancellor
Wirth's note of November Ia to the
! Reparation Commission. They will op-
pose q Cabinet composed exclusively
Of the bourgeois parties, they make
| clear.
Popularity May Turn Scale
Herr Cuno's task is therefore ar
unusually arduous one, although his
overcome its difficulties Tonight
however, it does not appear. probable
that he will be able to form Cabinet
before the end of the week. if at all.
BERLIN, Nov. 16 (By The Asso
ciated Press).-Wilhelm Cano, com.
missiened by President Ebert this af.
ternoon to constitute Il new Cabinet
| Immediately got into informal touch
with the party leaders for the pur.
pose of ascertaining their attitude to.
ward supporting "a Cabinet of work
which he proposes to organize. This
/ will comprise members of the Middle
1 and Socialist parties, but, according
to Herr Cuno, will not have an out
| spoken partisan complexion.
I Altar this ar tn IN,
! formed President Ebert Of his readi
ness 20 accept the Ghanceilorship ant
then left for Hamburg fer the purpose
of adjusting affairs In connection wits
1 his position on the Hamburg America
! Line. 1t is not believed that he vii
| succeed in definitely constituting th.
new Ministry before Monday.
Herr Cuno is an old friend of Presi
dent Ebert's, and WAS first in line
among the so-called neutral publ.
/ leaders whom the President had in view
as meeting his conception of leader 0.
a ministry which would undertake ths
nations economic reconstruction aloni
/ broad and non-nartisan lines.
Confers With Party Leaders
The hancellor-designate conferred
1 with Gustav Stresemann, leader of tn,
4 Peoples party; Hermann Mueller, o.
the United Socialists; former Chancei
/ lor Fehsenbach, OF the Clerieais, ant
! Chairman Peterson, of the Democrati
party, before going TO Hamburg.
The opinion Is held in Reichsta:
\ circles that Hen Cuno. who is who'll.
4 Il novice in Parliamentary affairs. a
/ least has the advantage Of being un
4 incumbered by party Affiliations an,
that he is qualified to deal ebjectivol.
! with the acrimonious situation growinl
out of the present crisis, and nigh
/ even succeed in reconciling the war
ring factions to patriotic program
/ OF national reconstruction based Of
mutual inter-party good will and IN
| derstanding.
! Herr Cuno's talk With the Sociaiis
feader, Mueller, is said to have pro
ceeded along sympathetic lines, an
the party's Reichstag delegation vote
i tonight that it would not oppose hi
endeayors % construct . nsT govern
lment.