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Hitherto the Luther-Stresemann Government has been able to count with certainty upon the support of only the Centrist Parties. After deliberating for two hours last week, the Socialist caucus announced positively that it would throw in its lot with the Government. On that basis Chancellor Luther was generally conceded to have secured more than enough votes to insure ratification of the Locarno Pacts by the Reichstag. When the Reichsrat* endorsed the treaties, last week, by a vote of 34 to 4, the prophecy was considered to have become a certainty...
...interval before these bills could be submitted, the National- ists, in caucus and out, continued to call for the flat rejection of the Pacts. General Ludendorff, arch-ultra-die-hard, spoke as follows...
Last week, with a big caucus of the Nationalists scheduled to meet in a few days, and with the Reichstag slated to assemble very shortly, it was apparently felt by both the Cabinet of the Reich and the Allies that some immediate show of mutual faith was in order...
...France, as elsewhere, nothing fails like failure. And last week M. Caillaux added insult to failure by two acts: 1) He defied the powerful Radical-Socialist bloc, which he had attempted to conciliate at its caucus in Nice (TIME, Oct. 23), by flatly declaring that he would "bar the way" to the adoption of its pet capital-levy panacea; 2) He refused the demands of Premier Painleve, Foreign Minister Briand and the rest of the Cabinet that he resign as a politically insolvent Finance Minister...
Suddenly came action abrupt and typically decisive from the Monarchists, who abhor Locarno and all its works. At a caucus of the Nationalist Reichstag deputies a resolution was adopted condemning "the results of the Locarno treaties at present available...