DENMARK: Socialists Out

Danes elected to their Folkething (Lower House) last week 30 Conservatives, 46 Liberals, 53 Socialists and 16 Radicals. Since the Right (Conservative-Liberal) phalanx of 76 thus outnumbered the Left (Socialist-Radical) 69, Premier T. A. M. (“Tam”) Stauning (Socialist) promptly resigned.

Herr Madsen Nydgal, Minister of Agriculture in the last Liberal Cabinet, was expected to be called to the Premiership by King Christian X. Meanwhile the electoral machinery of the Landsthing (Upper House) was not in motion, last week, since the Senators are elected only once in four years (for a term of eight years) by an elaborate system of electoral boards not scheduled to function again until 1928. The Danish nobility, of whom no more are created, have no ipso facto place in the Landsthing, but, on the other hand have the peculiar privilege of passing on their titles to all their sons and daughters, so that the extinction of a Danish noble house is rare in the extreme.