The new Reichstag met for the first time on Tuesday.
The Communists did their best to disturb the formal proceedings, but their best was not very impressive or successful. The Times correspondent sagaciously suggests that parliamentary proceedings cannot really be broken down by people who do not understand them. General Ludendorff and Admiral von Tirpitz were both present, and were subjected to plenty of derision from the Communists. It is a good sign that on Tuesday the Nationalists suffered a distinct check in their policy of demanding preliminary modifications in the Dawes Report. As the largest party in the new Reichstag, they demanded that the President should allow them to form a Cabinet. The President promptly replied by sending again for Dr. Marx. It is said that a new Marx Government would be very much like the old one, though a few offices might be, formally at all events, offered to the Nationalists.
