Berlin, Sept. 15.
It is no exaggeration to say that the German people woke up to-day to find itself stunned by the results of the elections. The wildest. dreams of Herr Hitler's National-
Socialist followers had never soared to anything like the 107 seats they' have attained.
Friends of stable parliamentarism while looking with some trepidation to a Reichstag in which the two extreme wings have a total of 183 seats, seek comfort in the fact, which is all-important from an' international viewpoint, that even with' the extreme nationalist clements in the fullest flood tide of success the crushing majority of the new Reichstag remains staunchly faithfal to the foreign policy of peace and international cooperation and goodwill associated with the name of the late Foreign Minister, Dr. uor and} Stresemann, and continued under! his successor Dr. Curtius.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.