Foreign News: Notes on Crisis

¶ 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).

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

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

¶ President von Hindenburg then called to the Prime Ministry Herr Hermann Müller, prominent Socialist, onetime manual laborer, signer of the Versailles Treaty and head of an undistinguished Cabinet in 1920. Characteristics: slow, poor...

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