GERMANY: Cabinet Crisis

The German Cabinet cross politics puzzle (TIME, Oct. 13) which has defied solution for many months, was laid aside over the Christmas holiday. The horizontal lines were forever upsetting the vertical lines and no sense could be made out of any of the words.

Chancellor Wilhelm Marx tendered his resignation to President Friedrich Ebert, who accepted it and asked the Chancellor to carry on pro tempore.

Stresemann's Failure. The President then summoned Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, leader of the German People's Party, bosom friend of Monarchy men. Herr Stresemann accepted the Presidential mandate to...

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