SWING TO THE LEFT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1928, Page 7

SWING TO THE LEFT.

Alarming Communist Increase In Germany. MILLIONS OBEY MOSCOW. (Australian Presa Assn.—United Service,) LONDON, May 22. Dispatches from Berlin in connection with the result of the general election in Germany say it is semi-officiailj' stated that the Cabinet intends to postpone its resignation until the Reichstag meets abut June 12. The Nationalists are aghast at their debacle. They lament the disunion among the bourgeois. It is realised that the election represents a pronounced swing to the Left, but tliers is equal disunity in Labour ranks, the Communists being the sworn enemies of the Socialist "traitors." The increased vote for the Communists is most disquieting, as 3,200,000 of the electors proclaimed their obedience to Moscow. The Berlin correspondent of the "Morning Post" says it is indeed fortunate that the Socialists are not strong enough to form a Coalition Government without the People's party, as it might have been unable to resist the replacement of Herr Stresemann.

The only possible hope of a majority seems to lie in a Coalition consisting of the People's party, the Centre party, the Democrats and the Socialists.

FRENCH COMMENT. SOME SUSPICIONS. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 11 a.m.) PARIS, May 22. Commenting on the German elections, the "Petit Parisien" thinks that in spite of the setback to Stresemann's People's party, the results constitute a victory for the policy of Franco-German rapprochement. The "Petit Journal" concludes that Herr Stresemann is the real victor, also that the internal policy of the Reich will become more difficult and more complicated.

The "Echo de Paris" forecasts that the first action of the Socialists will be to demand the evacuation of Rhineland, and adds: "The Reichstag that has just been elected is no novelty but merely a reproduction of the Assembly of 1920, which directed the whole campaign for the destruction of the Versailles Treaty."