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Recently the Six heirs found their inheritance taxes a burden. There were too many paintings. Works of art are heavily assessed in an age where everything is interpreted financially. An auction in Amsterdam was announced. To the auction rooms of Frederk Muller, on the banks of the Amstel, came a host of connoisseurs from all over the world. They came to take away from Holland the treasures that the loving Jan Six had collected. Without a particle of sentiment for the Dutch they gathered for refined looting...
Though the recent election gave his party a huge plurality in the Reichstag (TIME, May 28), Socialist Muller at first failed for 17 days to assemble a Cabinet able to command a majority. Nine major parties continued deadlocked. Jeers were heard about "A Cabinet by Christmas!" No one seemed much impressed by Hermann Müller's owlish spectacles, low voice, plaintive air. And yet the Socialist plurality is now too large for a Cabinet to be formed by a Prime Minister of any other party...
...read simply "Stresemann." The great Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner wired: "From the start I have regarded skeptically the attempt to establish a Ministry on the basis of a program approved beforehand by the various parties." He continued that, although it seemed "psychologically scarcely possible" for Herr Muller to forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them but would not be pledged to do so? as is the usual custom. Concluding with wily...
Hindenburg Helps. Though the Stresemann telegram seemed to offer a plausible solution, difficulties continued to crop up and 48 hours later the press received an impression that Hermann Muller was about to return his mandate for forming a cabinet to President von Hindenburg. Just after breakfast, next morning, the old Feldmarschall received Herr Müller, spoke weighty words and crisp. Before the day was out Germans had a resplendent "Cabinet of Personalities...
Prime Minister?Hermann Muller (Socialist...