GERMAN POLITICS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 62, 28 February 1929, Page 6

GERMAN POLITICS

GOVERNMENT IN MINORITY. BUT NO INTENTION lOF RESIGNING. (Australian Press A»sn.—United Service.) Berlin, Feb. 26. Di. Stresemann, at a party meeting. gravely warned all parties concerning the utter confusion into which politics had fallen. He said the Government was at present in a minority owing to the defection of the Centre party, but in view of critical international negotiations it had not the remotest intention of resigning. Ministers’ responsibilities to the State must outweigh party considerations. It was grotesque that when the Chancellor’s whole energies were needed for' the Paris negotiations they should be wasted on attempts to bring the parties together. Dr. Stresemann did not believe current rumours that movements were aiming at replacement of the constitution by a dictatorship. He expressed the opinion that Germany was far from the adoption of Fascism, but there must be strong efforts to reform the parliamentary system and limit the power of factions. The root of the evil situation was the substitution of organisation for personality.