Notes on Crisis

P: The right-center Coalition Cabinet of Dr. Wilhelm Marx resigned, last week, because the balance of power has shifted to left-centre in the newly elected Reichstag (TIME, May 28).

P:. Dr. Paul Loebe, veteran Socialist president of the Reichstag, was re-elected for the third time as the new parliament convened last week.

P:. Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia Dr. Otto Braun, was offered the Prime Ministry as for

P: President von Hindenburg then called to the Prime Ministry Herr Hermann Mueller, prominent Socialist, onetime manual laborer, signer of the Versailles Treaty and head of an undistinguished Cabinet in 1920. Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer.

P:. Furious political squabbling began, as the Socialists, who do not themselves possess a majority angled for support from the left-centre parties.

P:. The famed People's Party of world-esteemed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann asked as the price of his continuance in the German Cabinet that other members of their party be included in the Prussian Cabinet.

At this Prussian Socialist Prime Minister Braun saw red, shouted "Nein!

NEIN!!" at the bargainers, and punctuated his remarks with oaths.

P:.Herr Miiller, badly worried, appealed to Dr. Stresemann "as a man above party," thereby causing him to arise from his sick bed for a conference with the various leaders. Though the issue was uncertain, Germans looked to Great Dr. Stresemann to solve their cabinet crisis.

P:.Chased by the Berlin Police, several Communist Deputies wanted for political crimes sprinted into the Reichstag, last week, where sanctuary was theirs.