THE REICHSTAG.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19770, 7 November 1929, Page 11

THE REICHSTAG.

CRISIS PREDICTED. TWO CATHOLIC PARTIES WITHDRAW. WILL NOT SANCTION EASIER DIVORCE. (VItITBD PRE*? ASSOCIATION— BT KLECTRTO TELEG2APH—COPYRIGHT.) itleceivcd November 6th. 9.35 p.m.) LONDON. November 6. The Berlin correspondent of the '\Daily New-" states that a Cabinet crisis i-; predicted at the result of the Centre Party anil the Bavarian People's Party withdrawing from the Reichstag Committee, which was considerTng new measures enabling easier divorce. M. Leicht. leader of the Bavarian People's Party, speaking at a great Roman Catholic meeting, declared that he could not support a Government wfiich countenanced such, measures. "The fight is for the maintenance or the destruction of family," he declared. The consequence of the withdrawal may be incalculable ns. without the help of the two Roman Catholic Parties, neither the Nationalists nor the Socialists can govern, and there may be a dissolution of the present fiveParty Coalition, which will lead to- a new grouping of the political Parties. |_The Gorman Cabinet as constituted in was a coalition of five parties: Socialists, ' German Democratic Party, the Centre Party, German People's Party, and Bavarian People's Party. The three biggest Parties in the Reichstag are: Socialists numbering 153. Nationalists numbering 73, and the "Centre Party numl>ering 62. in. a house of 490. The Bavarian People's Party holds only 16 seats. The Centre is tne main Catholic party.]