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...Hammer Blows!" Smoldering behind national discontent with the von Papen-von Hindenburg decrees was of course the issue of states' rights which flamed up when Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria defied President von Hindenburg's decree authorizing Adolf Hitler's 400,000 "Storm Troops" to put on their brown uniforms again and make public appearance (TIME, June 20). Last week Herr Hitler stormed into the presence of Baron von Gayl, demanded that Dr. Held be restrained from interfering with Fascists in Bavaria. Experts on the German Constitution meanwhile opined that no German state has the right to override President...
...joke, this defiance to the Federal Government was called "miniature civil war" by Berlin papers hostile to Bavaria. Dr. Held excused his undressing of Hitlerites as "necessary to uphold States' rights...
Spunky old Dr. Heinrich Held, Premier of the Free State of Bavaria, made good last week his recent threat to President von Hindenburg that no matter what the Federal Government may do, the Bavarian Government will not permit Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops to appear brown-uniformed on Bavarian soil (TIME, June...
...least chance existed of a Hohenzollern restoration up North, argued Bavarian editors, then certainly the Free State of Bavaria must consider whether to restore as King her popular Rupprecht, discarded when Crown Prince in 1918. Excitedly at Karlsruhe met three South German champions of states' rights: Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria; Premier Dr. Eugen Bolz of Wurttemberg, Premier Dr. Christian Schmitt of Baden. Bending over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result...
This speech rekindled South German fears. To President von Hindenburg rushed the three South German premiers led by Bavaria's Held. They were received with Chancellor von Papen present. Mincing no words Dr. Held threatened to arrest any official who might be sent from Berlin to interfere in Bavaria's affairs, accused Chancellor von Papen of intending to force upon Prussia as the head of that state a Federal commissioner. Dr. Held also denounced Baron von Gayl's complimentary reference to Adolf Hitler's Storm Troops, declared that whatever the Federal Government might do the Bavarian...