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With the whole Fatherland convinced that last week's Reichstag election could produce no Government upset, Germans voted almost without violence for the first time in years, with these striking results...
Second the Fatherland's Communists more than won back last week the votes they lost to Nazis in the previous Reichstag election (TIME, Aug. 8). The Red gains fulfilled Herr Hitler's campaign prediction that aristocratic Chancellor von Papen's reactionary Cabinet would prove "an involuntary stalking horse for Bolshevism...
With that hope now blasted "Handsome Adolf" may listen more attentively to General Kurt von Schleicher. If Herr Hitler can be drawn into the Cabinet and his blatancy toned down the Fatherland will be on the highway back toward a representative Government. If no compromise is reached, the alternative is to dissolve the new Reichstag as soon as it meets and continue dissolving successive Reichstags until Old Paul von Hindenburg dies or refuses to sign decrees or until some exasperated German faction attempts a putsch...
...Herriot in proposing to turn the Reichwehr into a conscript army was proposing to break the Treaty of Versailles which forced upon Germany a volunteer army. Any breach in the Treaty, especially by a Frenchman, was so much to the good, the German spokesman declared, but of course the Fatherland would insist on "arms equality" (which M. Herriot had denounced as "re-armament...
Sixty-seven royal males and their females crowded the Moritzkirche. All Germany was agog. This was the first dynastic union to take place on German soil since the Fatherland became a Republic in 1919. King George, who hides his German light under a bushel and has changed his name to Windsor, was not there. Neither were any of his sons. But His Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel...