Germany at the Polls The emergency activities of Herr von
Papen's Cabinet have almost overshadowed the General Election in Germany, though it actually takes place on Sunday, failing some eleventh-hour intervention, which seems quite unlikely. It will be a strange election, for there is no Government party to go to the polls at all. The Communists, the Social Democrats, the Centre, the Nazis, the Nationalists, and one or two minor groups are all submitting their separate lists and the usual composite Reichstag will result. If by any chance the Nazis secure a clear majority of scats they will no doubt attempt to form a Government themselves. But the best prophets give them no more than a 40 or 45 per cent. poll, and on that showing the entry of three or four Nazi Ministers into a Cabinet not unlike the present may be looked for. That might be no had development, for it would give Herr Hitler's party responsibility without endowing it with the unrestricted authority that the attainment of a clear majority would confer. But in the present confusion in Germany election predictions are hardly profitable.
