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THE GENERAL ELECTION IN GERMANY
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Regarded from the standpoint of the German bourgeoisie, the elections to the German Reichstag which took place on 20th, of: May are very significant and anything but agreeable."
Of all the big bourgeois parties only one, namely. the Economic Party founded a few years ago, has met with any success; nor is even this success a very welcome matter, for the party is composed of such heterogeneous elements that, when it comes to voting on Important questions, it falls to pieces; hence, as a very unreliable political factor, it constitutes a source of danger to any govern- ment.
SATURDAY, UNE
DR. DOROTHY LOGAN
ENSURED.
„NAME NOT ERASED FROM.
MEDICAL REGISTER.
Sir Donald Macallater, the Pro- aldent, at a meeting of the General Medical Council. has announced the decision of that body concerning the case of Dr. Dorothy Logan, who appeared before them in con noxion with the Channel awim hoax, grase Dr. Logan's name from the The Council has decided not to.
Medical Register..
The charge against her was framed on the police conviction and that she had swum the English: fine of $100. following her claim Channel, without having dono 80. with the declared object of expos Ing the possibility of establishing unreliable, athletic records,
The circumstances of the con- viction were laid before the Coun cil by Mr, Charles Harper, solicitor to the Council.
Dr. Logan defended herself, and the Council, after, a two hours' session, through the President, gave their decision.
Notwithstanding an extension of the elections, the old bourgeois parties which, under que name or another," have exlated from pre-
Words of Warning. war days, experienced losses. The The Council, he remarked, bad German National Party, hitherto very carefully and seriously con the largest of the bourgeois par-sidered the conviction which had ties, suffered the severest defent; been recorded against Dr. Logan, counting in the Agricultural and it had been proved-to their League (Landbund), it has lost 25 satisfaction-a conviction for an per cent of its seats; taken alone, offence against the Porjury Act, its loss totals 32 per cent, as com- which was of a very chrious pared with the seats, held in the character. Inst Reichstag The losses of the
They had also taken into account Democrats amount to 22 per cent. the explanations that De Logan and of the German People's Party had offered by way of mitigation and the Centre, 10 per cent. The of that offence, and they desired victors in the campaign are the him to say that they had formed the Social Democrats, who have ob- opinion that Dr. Logan at the time, tained 20 per cent. more seats and perhaps even subsequently, had than they had, and the Com- been Imperfectly realising the res- munists obedient to Moscow-ponsibility which rested upon every whose gains represent an increase citizen, and in a special degree upon a member of an honourable profes. of 38 per cent.
sion like that of the medical practi- tioner, to refrain from appending their signature to any statement for which they could not vouch for the contents being true.
"Splinter" Parties.
It must also be remembered that hundreds of thousands of votes have been squandered on the The Council had, however, come "splinter" parties demanding to the conclusion that perhaps higher revaluation on behalf of the punishment to which those injured by the Inflation, Dr. Logan had already been and that these votes might, at a subjected, and the proceed- future election, benefit the so- Ings of that day, might have cialists and communists. Im-enabled her to realise afresh and poverished, disappointed and poll- more fully the responsibilities which tically undisciplined, these sent rested upon her. And, believing tered voters might easily fall à that in time to come she would prey to the allurements of radical, never purport to attest anything socialism.
which she knew to be untruo, and be worthy of the profession, they I that her conduct henceforth would had decided not to erase her nume from the Medical Register.
The bourgeoisie still forms the majority, but it is divided against itself and is in danger of dwindling into a minority. How is this dan ger to be met? A consolidation
Conservation,
Threat to Bourgeois,
of the bourgeoisie, Le, a parlia-front in defence of the nation'a mentary, coalition of the parties vital interests. stretching from the German Na-
But the greater the number of ttorialists to the Democrats, is im- possible so long as there exists, the seats held by the Social De between these two parties, an anti-mocrats the greater their power, pathy which often degenerates Into and the greater their power the personal hatred. Both parties greater the danger of their de- must readjust themselves; the manding the impracticable. In German Nationalists must wheel the new Reichstag the so-called somewhat to the left, the De- "great coalition" may prove mocrats to the right.
feasible, ie, the coalition whose wings are the German People's Party and the Social Democrats. But if a later election should re- The German Nationalists must turn the Social Democrata and the learn to see that 20th Century Communists in a combined ma Conservatism cannot put back the jority, the Socialists would be in clock-cannot reinstate thinge as
a position to threaten the bour they were a hundred years ago, or geois parties that, unless they even 50 years ago; nay, that complied with the Sociallets de Taira are different now from mands, they themselves would What they were even just before form a coalition government, with the war. The German Conserva-the Communists; and they could tives should, indeed, learn what be deterred from putting these the English Conservatives learned long ago, namely, that it is vain threats into execution only by a
united bourgeoisie. to waste one's energies in en-
deavouring to regain lost posl. Such a possibility is not, by any
."
means, a mere chimera of a tions, Instead of devoting them to
nabulous future. Conecquently The defence of those still held; it is high time that the bourgeois this is, indeed, essential, not only parties prepared to meet it; and, to their own intereals, but also to this end, the German Nation to those of the whole state, Aalists and the Democrats should German Conservative or nation- alist party-the name is of no con-lose no time in setting about their sequence which actual as a salu- own inner readjustment,
Seen from the standpoint of tary check upon the impetuosity home politics, this is the lesson of the radicals would save their to be learned from the anything| country from internal disruption, but satisfactory results of the strengthen its diplomatic footing general elections; if its lesson is and enhance its moral credit,
taken to heart, that election will prove salutary to Germany and will, in the end, strengthen her poaltion.
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In the National Assembly elec, ted in January, 1919, the De
Stresemann's Triumph. mocrats formed the most powerful As regards the foreign affairs bourgeois party; subsequently of the country, those results may they lost more than two-thirds of be estimated much more optimis. their seats; and the recent electienlly. The electorate has tions prove that this retrogressive closed the efforts made by the movement has rot yet come to a Foreign Minister, Dr. Stresemanni atandstill. The reason doubtless to procure for Germany, by means that many former supporters are of an honourable understanding, dissatisfied with a certain ten a position appropriate to her. dency to doctrinism in the party capacities and achievements. An and still more with the compliancy example to the point in the fol shown towards the Social De towing. In one of the three large maerats. Now the Social Dei constituencies of the Free State of Imocrats, enjoy the confidence of Saxony, the leaders of the Ger
almost one-third of the elections; man Nationaliste party thought to hence it is obviously impossible make a clever move by nominat to exclude them from all participa ing, in place of the moderate num tion in the government as demand.ber hitherto representingit ja ed by the German Nationalists candidate who lean absolutely neverthekas, the view of the De Tanktical opponent of Dr. Strese
estate that under no circummin's policy of understanding BİRTICUR, CEIL WA govern without the and wholysked no secret what Social Democrats Je equally mist ever or Huntforthy. Now, jut itakon. When, for instance, the in this Very State, the German scial Democrats put forward so Nationalists have suffered a most cialist demands whose fulfilment Crushing defeat Whereas, in three Saxon constituencies have didate in Saxony has not merely the great majority of the German would necessarily involve the die Germany as a whole, they have receded from 547,000 to 250.000, 1 failed to bring them any advant people fully approve of the policy ruption of the State finance or lust not quite one-third of their by 58 per cent. Thus, the oppool age but has caused them a very of maintaining honourable perce the ruin of the country's economy, formar total of votes and seats, tion to Dr. Stresemann's policy severe defent: No better proof on the lines followed by their pres the bourgeois must form a solid the votes recorded for them in the proclaimed by their, principal can could be desired of the fact that sent minister of foreign affairs. “
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