Confidence

Chancellor Wilhelm Marx took the new German Cabinet--his fourth--before the Reichstag last week and obtained a vote of confidence 235 to 174, with only 18 abstentions.

The Cabinet, as presented to the Reichstag, is exactly as originally announced (TIME, Feb. 7), except that the important Ministry of Interior was given at the last moment to Herr Walter von Keudell, a rich young landed Junker; and Dr. Oskar Hergt was shifted from the portfolio of Interior to that of Justice.

The Cabinet make-up is of vital significance, for it is the first cabinet of the German Republic in which the Nationalists (Monarchists) have participated, thus killing the last hopes of the Hohenzollerns that they may be restored.