NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE situation in Germany is very uncertain and even disturbing. On Monday the Government resigned, but President Ebert requested them to carry on till a new Goverrunent could be formed, and it now seems probable that they will re-form themselves. The resignation was the result of the breakdown of the negotiations between the Nationalists and the Middle Parties with the object of forming a joint Cabinet. The Dawes Report was, of course, the crux. Everything turned upon that. The Berlin correspondent of the Times says that the Middle Parties insisted that the Report should be accepted as a whole and that unless this were clearly agreed to they could not co-operate with the Nationalists. The Nationalists seem a little more inclined than they were to fall in with the wishes of the Middle Parties, but this comes from the pressure of circumstance more than from a change of heart. Anyhow, the Middle Parties were not satisfied, and regarded the Nationalist reply as a refusal of co- operation.
