WHAT THE FIGURES MEAN

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 106, 6 May 1924, Page 8

WHAT THE FIGURES MEAN

GERMAN NATIONALS HOLD THE

BALANCE,

(tleceived 6th i^la"y, noon.)

. ' „•.-.- „: BERLIN, sth May.' Results of the elections already received make ;it clear, that the-Extreme ! Nationalists haye not done as well-as ** was expected,: and must'be content to take a_ back seat in the new Reiclistag. Even.in-the.Extreme Nationalist strong- ' hold of Mimich a large number of votes ■ went to the German' Nationals, arid it is j significant that the Extreme Nationalists did not gain a single seat in the occupied territory. On «the,other hand the German Nationals, of■-which' party the.late Herr Helfferich was leader, and who are Monarchist Reactionaries .and ' opponents to the experts' plans,1 have 1 done . extremely well, and will be the second strongest party in the Reichstag,with about' 90 seats, compared with 67 previously: The Communists have also done better thau was expected, and have nearly sixty seats, compared with the fifteen previously held. They scored heavily in parts of, Berlin, and in the big_ industrial towns: of Saxony and Thurmgia, and it seems th'it practically every former Independent Socialist has gone over to Communism. TKe German Peoples Party,.led by Herr Stresemann,, has done badly, ,and i* likely to* ]os» about twenty seats to the German Nationals, The Catholic Ceutre Party and the Democrats will have about sixty and forty seats respectively, as before the election. No important changes are expected in the other groups. -'^"f- Position in the new Reichstag ■will, be;- interesting, but coroplioated.' It is^ certain that, the: majority will favour the acceptance of the experts' reports, but -a two-thirds 'majority is necessary f°r,. the change in the .Constitution that ;WU-.be-involved by, the acoeptance' of .the ..experts, .reports, and it will be impossible to do without tho support of the German Nationals. If-they remain irreconcilable i opponents to the reports which is, however, doubtfu.l, there win be no chance of the Reichstag adopting rh.j reports, and eVil days Ivill again iall on Germany.