Crisis Growing

The political sea mirrored the black, ugly reflections of scurrying war clouds. The surface was agitated by violent ripples. It was feared that the storm would break; that, for the second time this year, the country would be driven to the polls.

The growing crisis centred around the question of reorganizing the Cabinet in conformity to promises made to the Monarchists by the Government at the time when the Experts' Planlegislation was passed (TIME, June 16).

Chancellor Marx declared that he was willing to permit Monarchists and Socialists to join his Cabinet providing: 1) that they recognized the inviolability of the German Constitution; 2) that they supported the Experts' Plan; 3) that they endorsed the present Government's interior and exterior policies; 4) that they sponsored Germany's en trance into the League of Nations. Centrists and Democrats did not object to the entry of the Monarchists and Socialists into the Cabinet on these terms. The People's Party, champions of the Monarchists, agreed to the inclusion of the Socialists if they would accept these terms. Monarchists and Socialists agreed to the terms "in principle" but did not accept them; and it was thought that they would not do so.