GERMAN PARTY STRIFE
POLITICS IN CONFUSION GOVERNMENT’S MINORITY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) BERLIN, February 26. Dr. Stresemann, German Foreign Minister, at a party meeting, gravely warned all parties concerning the utter confusion into which the politics of the country have fallen. He said the Government at present was in a minority owing to the defection of the Centre Party, but in view of the critical international negotiations now in hand it had not the remotest intention of resigning. Tht Ministers’ responsibilities to the State must outweigh party considerations. It was grotesque, when the entire energies of the Chancellor, Dr. Hermann Mueller, and himself were needed in connection with the sittings of the Committee of Experts on Reparation in Paris, that those energies should be wasted in attempts to bring the parties together. Dr. Stresemann said he did not believe current rumours of movements aimed at the replacement of the Constitution by a dictatorship. In his opinion Germany was far from the adoption of Fascism. However, there must be strong efforts made to reform the Parliamentary system and limit the powc/s of factions. The root of the evil of the situation was the substitution of organisation for personality.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 600, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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198GERMAN PARTY STRIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 600, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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