A new German Government has not yet emerged from the
manoeuvring of the parties since the General Election, nor, indeed, is one to be expected yet awhile. The real question seems to be whether the Centre Party will go Left or Right—that is to say, whether it will unite with the German People's Party and the Nationalists and form a bourgeois bloc with, in all probability, Herr Stresemann as Chancellor, or unite with the Democrats and the Socialists and form a left-wing coalition as during the chancellorship of Dr. Wirth. At present the indica- tions seem to be that the bourgeois bloc idea will be "tried out" first of all. The situation is complicated by the struggle for power in the Prussian Landtag. In this body, it must be remembered, there has been a clear left-wing -majority for the last three years. The position is now evenly balanced, and the Nationalists are determined, if they can, to uproot all the appoint- ments which the Socialist Administration has made and replace them by the old type of Prussian officials. Whether or not they will succeed seems doubtful.
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