Campaigning

The Reichstag elections will take place on May 4.

P:The campaigning was marked, last week, by a colossal revival of monarchist and nationalist propaganda. Stimulus was given by Foreign Minister Stresemann's speech to the Hanover Convention of the National People's Party. He came out flatfooted, for a monarchy, attacked the Republican Constitution of the Reich, which he helped to draft at the Weimar Constitutional Convention in February, 1919.

Accused of treason, Stresemann amplified his speech by explaining that he was loyal to the Republic, but favors a liberal monarchy based on popular will.

P:Bismarck's birthday. All Fools' Day in other lands, was celebrated by a monarchist outbreak in Berlin. "Bismarck German Youth" assembled at Friedrichruhe, near Hamburg, and recited the Nationalist creed:

"We believe in one German God, one German people and to the German Kaiser pledge this festival as the awakening of racial renewal. We vow no rest until the Emperor's banner of black, white and red is again universally adopted in Germany."

Conservative opinion discounted the monarchist revival as mere campaign matter.