Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-30
MARX CHANCELLOR
IN GERMAN THREE
PARTY COALITION

a'n, 4NoV. zS.-(By A. P.)-The
seven-day parliamentary crisis. which
was chiefly devoted to inter-party
chickering's and barterlngs and an abor-
tive attempt finally to do away with
socialistic influence in national poll
tics through the creation of a bour-
geois bloc. terminated tonight in a
three-party compromise by virtue of
which minority coalition comprising
members Of the Clerical. the German
Peoples and the Democrat parties will
succeed the deposed Stresemann gov
eminent, which was constituted with
the same component parts.
LII. wilhelm Marx. the Clerical lead
er. Will head the new cabinet as chan
ceilor, while the other portfolios will
De held by men who weresin the last
government.
AS at present constituted the gov
eminent will be:
Chancellor-Dr. Wilhelm Marx.
munster of the interior-Dr. Jarres.
:, Minister of defense-Dr. Otto Cess
Minister of food-Dr. Hans Luther.
Minister of posts-Dr. Anton Hoefle.
Minister without portfolio-Rudolph
Oeser.
DR.. Stresemann is reported to have
accepted the post of foreign minister.
Aside from being a pronounced mi
nor1ty cabinet, the present revamped
coalition is anything but firmly CO.
ordinated three-party bloc within its
own ranks. and it also will be called
upon TO aSSimi1ate much of the ami
mostly and partisan acerbities which
1T inherits from the seven-day crisis,
both with respect to the antagonism
waiting it from the German national
lists. as well as the yet wholly prob
lematical attitude of the United So
cialists.
Although DR.. Marx announced that
he would select his cabinet members
irrespective of their party allegiance,
he nevertheless heads an outspoken
partisan ministry which seemingly
once again is wholly dependent upon
the charity of the Social Democrats
To this extent the present crisis ran
true to traditional form, although pre-
vious parliamentary ructions rarely
consumed an entire week in the pro-
cess of their liquidation. President
Ebert used up four chancellor candi-
dates in his efforts to construct a par
ty lineup which would constitute a
workable coalition. and the situation
only reached state of Qualification
this evening after DR.. Marx will be
sent out as bellwether.
President Ebert preferred to risk an
other experiment in the nature of a
minority government as an alternative
to dissolving the Reichstag, the latter
expedient being viewed in all govern
ment circles as a double feature in
the face of the uncertain attitude of
the occupying powers toward national
elections in the occupied areas and also
because of the visible growth of a
popular movement toward the right.
While the forced disappearance of
the Reichstag probably would have
met with general favor. the problem
of new elections within the period
prescribed by the constitution sug-
gested numerous complications of a
grave character, especially in con-
nection with the future status of the
Rhineland and the occupied Huhr
sector, SO that President Ebert pre-
ferred a resort to dissolution of the
legislative body as an ultimate ex-
tremity. An added factor which in
fiuenced the executive against a per-
emptory dissolution of parliament
was furnished in the growing shift
toward "natiOnalism," which he be-
lieved would wholly preclude the
possibility of conducting an orderly
election in view of the existing eco
nomic and social distress.
The advent of DR.. Marks minority
cabinet merely emphasizes the con-
tinuance of the parliamentary inL-
passe growing out of the absence of
a strong majority government, and
to this extent the new ministry is
also a purely political eleemosynary
body wedged in between the tfadi-
tional hostility fthe German Ma
tionalists and the pre- carious majori-
ty of the socialists. Many ill greet
it with derision because of the re-
buke administered TO them by the
bourgeois parties in response to their
attempt to barter their way into the
Prussian government liz return for
their entering the Reichstag coaii-
ton.
The socialists also wilt occupy tie
mockers' seat in parliament in view
of the failure of the middle parties
to create an all-round straight bour-
geoise coalition.
DR.. Marx, Germany's seventeenth
chancellor. comes from Cologne. He
is jurist by profession and long has
been active in clerical party politics.
He has served in The Prussian diet
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