On Tuesday Herr Marx's Government, which has been carrying on
since the General Election, resigned and President von Hindenburg- invited Herr Muller, the Socialist leader, to form a new Government. It had been thought that Herr Miller might prefer to hand the task over to a member of the Centre in order to obtain stability for the new Government with its inevitably predominant representation of Socialists. He decided, however, to become Chancellor himself and he is consulting with the Centre, the Democratic Party and the German People's Party in order to build up a "Grand Coalition." Perhaps the Coalition will be even grander than had been expected, as apparently the Bavarian People's Party is inclined to help and so is that vague group the Economic Party, which has no more definite object than that of somehow helping the middle classes. The calm premeditation with which the Government is being formed, in spite of the obvious difficulties of the operation, is a sign that the Republic has found itself. Herr Muller was Foreign Minister in the Bauer Cabinet of 1919, and had the dis- agreeable duty of signing the Peace Treaty.
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