THE PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 49, 26 February 1921, Page 4

THE PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS

Many people wonder why the Prussian elections occupy so much prominence in the cable news. The reason is, of course, that Prussia is almost Germany. It comprises more than threeflftais of the area of the German Republic, and nearly two-thirds of it? population. It is in all respects dominant in Germany. Hence what Prussia does in politics and world affairs is an index of the political outlook of Germany so far as it is a unit in Europe. The results so far reported do not give the full strength of the numerous parties in the National Assembly of the State, but an interesting point which abeady emerges is the existence of a group of thirty Communists in a House which after the previous election (in 1919) contained no such party, at least under a plain label. The three leading parties which established the existing 'Government—the Majority Socialists, the Clerical .(Catholic or Centre) Party, and the Democratshave secured between them, roughly, three-fourths of the seats in the Housesomewhat less than before—and there is no indication of any serious change in their prospect of control. The more reactionary groups, represented by the ■People's Party and. the Conservatives, 'have grown considerably, but appareptly not to the extent which had been anticy •pated;-and the "swing to the Right," •wlvish was forsflnstud is only of moderates esfcent. .