* * * * The real difficulty will arise when
the task of finding Herr Ebert's successor is undertaken. By the Weimar Constitution, the President is elected, as in America, by the direct vote of the nation. It is anticipated that the coming election will be in fact between two candidates, a Nationalist and latently Monarchist one, and a Repub- lican and progressive candidate. Herr Luther, the present Chancellor, is thought of as the Nationalist candidate and Herr Marx, the ex-Chancellor, as the Republican. Should the Nationalist succeed in this election, the Nationalists will have in their hands the three key points of power in Germany : the Reich Government, the Prussian Government, and the Presidency. However, it must not be supposed that even should this happen the restoration of the monarchy would immediately result.
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