POLITICAL DEBACLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19953, 23 May 1928, Page 11

POLITICAL DEBACLE.

GERMAN NATIONALISTS. CABINET WILL RESIGN. NO PARTY WITH MAJORITY. NEW COALITION SUGGESTED. Australian Press Association —United Service (Received May 22, 5.25 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. A message from Berlin states that owing to the result of the general election in Germany, the newspaper Taglische Rundschau asserts the Cabinet will tender its resignation to-morrow. However, other despatches say it is semi-officially stated that the Cabinet intends to postpone its resignation until the Reichstag meets about 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 there 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. Tho 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. COMMENT IN LONDON. RESULT FAVOURS PEACE. HOHENZOLLERNS* DAY GONE, United Service. LONDON. May 21. The Daily Mail remarks that the result of the German election distinctly favours peace. The advocates of a war of revenge were largely defeated. The strongest party will be that of the Socialists, the German variety of whom are much less extreme than those in Britain. The paper says the most important feature is the fading out of the Hohenzollerns. Germany, it says, has definitely turned from monarchism to republicanism. PRUSSIAN DIET. DEFEAT OF NATIONALISTS. SOCIALISTS PREPONDERATE. Australian Press Association—United Service BERLIN. May 21. An election for the Prussian Diet was held at the same time as the German general election. This also resulted in a heavy defeat for the Nationalists, who lost 42 out of 109 seats. The Socialists now comprise the strongest party with 114 members. The Communists have won 50 seats and all the other parties combined 219.