CABINET CRISIS IN GERMANY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18201, 28 February 1929, Page 9

CABINET CRISIS IN GERMANY.

Is Fascism in the Air? CHANCELLOR’S STRONG APPEAL. (Unltad Press Association—By Eleetrle Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 27, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, February 20. Dr. 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 the minority, owing to the deflection of the Centre Party, but in view of the critical international negotiations it had not the remotest intention of resigning. Minister’s responsibilities to the States must outweigh Party considerations. It was grotesque than when the Chancellor’s whole energies were needed for the Paris negotiations, they should be wasted on attempts to bring the parties together. He did not believe the current rumours that the movements were aiming at the 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 of the situation was the substitution of organisation for personality.