Berlin:
Dr. Paul Moldenhauer is appointed Minister of Finance to replace Dr. Rudolf Hilferding. Moldenhauer was previously Minister of Economics. Robert Schmidt will replace him in that post.
Molenhauer’s appointment pleases industrialists and bankers. He is a member of the people’s party (as is Foreign Minister Julius Curtius), a party friendly to business interests, and is expected to make changes to his predecessor’s policies that these interests will find more favorable. This also restores the people’s party to four seats in Chancellor Hermann Mueller’s cabinet.
Meanwhile, Alfred Hugenberg, nationalist political leader who lost the Liberty Law vote, reportedly is planning to appeal the law’s defeat to the German courts and to ask President Paul von Hindenburg to proclaim the measure law. He claims that only a majority of those who actually voted on Sunday was required for the Liberty Law to pass – not a majority of registered voters. It’s a grasp at straws. Neither the court nor Hindenburg is expected to give his argument any merit.
Brussels:
A young man, variously said to be an anarchist
or a communist, is arrested on charges of plotting to bomb a train carrying the
king and queen of Belgium. The royals’
daughter, Princess Marie Jose, plans to marry Crown Prince Umberto of Italy in
January. The bomb plot was in protest of
Italy’s fascist government. A newspaper
article in Brussels says the Belgian Prime Minister, Justice Minister and
Defense Minister had all recently received threats as well that they would be killed unless they
stopped the wedding.
Manchuria:
Japanese reports say that ethnic Mongolians
in the Barga district of western Manchuria are considering forming a new nation
-- with Soviet Russian encouragement and under Russian influence – from territory
that Russia invaded last month.
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