The German. Cabinet crisis caused by the -uncertain results of
the recent elections appeared to be ended -on Monday, when Herr Fehrenbach accepted office as Chancellor. - He is a Roman Catholic from South Germany, and a- prominent leader of the Centre party. His-Ministry was to depend on a coalition of the Centre, the Democrats, and the People's Party, and to work for reconstruction " on the basis of the existing Republican political system." But on Thursday it was reported that the -moderate Socialists, who are now much depress_d, would not vote for a Ministry that included the avowed Monarchists 'of the- People's Party. The Democrats, on the other h and, were reluctant to join a Ministry to which the Socialists were hostile. Yet, failing a Moderate Coalition, no other political combination seems possible at the moment.
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