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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg gurgled and thundered in terrifying fashion last week, according to reports from his summer Red House at Neudeck. Chancellor Heinrich Brüning had just come out from Berlin in hangdog fashion, admitted that the Budget was in chaos, presented the resignation of Finance Minister Paul Moldenhauer...
...opening the case, Chancellor Brüning could, under Article 48 of the German Constitution, make himself virtual dictator of the Reich for a period of three months which must pass before a new Reichstag could be elected and assembled. Crack! went the invisible Hindenburg whip and the Reichstag deputies in their confusion and buzzing excitement resembled an arena-full of balky bulls...
This made it unnecessary for Chancellor Brüning to unlock his brief case. He put to vote a Communist and Socialist motion of noconfidence, defeated it by the smashing victory...
...Reichstag lobbies it was said that Dr. Hugenberg and the Big Business wing of his party had been forced to reverse overnight by the agrarian wing, made up of farmers and landed proprietors fanatically loyal to HINDENBURG. The victory of "Iron Cross" Brüning was thus purely a triumph for the President of the Republic...
...ministerial declaration Dr. Brüning was annoyingly vague, promised in a general way to continue Germany's present foreign policy "unchanged," to promote the country's "economic health.'' He did not even mention these live political issues: 1) Shall Germany build a second "pocket battleship" like the famed Ersatz Preussen? (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) 2) Along what lines will the Government administer the new Defense-of-the-Reich Act? (TIME, March 31) 3) What is to be done about Thuringia's Minister of Interior, redoubtable Dr. Frick, who continues to defy the central German...