GERMAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 302, 21 December 1926, Page 7

GERMAN POLITICAL CRISIS.

NATIONALISTS' NEW SLOGAN. " OUR ARMY IS IN DANGER." LONDON, December 20. Since the defeat and resignation of the German Cabinet there have been no developments of any importance politically. The President, Marshal Hindenburg, maintains his decision to postpone negotiations for the formation of a new Government until just .before the Reichstag meets on January 19, in spite of an attempt by the Nationalists to rush the President, states the Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle." This decision is expected to result in a Press campaign by the Nationalists, using the slogan "Our army is in danger." It is generally recognised that attempts at secret arming must in future fail. A message from Paris quotes a Berlin correspondent as saying that Marshal Hindenburg sternly warned party leaders not to attack Dr. Gessler. He says: "You have taken General yon Seeckt from the Republican Army and I will not allow intrigues to deprive it of the last man capable of keeping it in a satisfactory condition." Dr. Gessler was Minister of Defence in the late Cabinet. The political crisis arose quite suddenly due to the decision of the Social Democrats to launch a noconfidence niotjon, but %vas carried owing to dissatisfaction with Dr. Gesler through his weakness in dealing with Nationalist attempts to control the Reichwehr (Defence Force).