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Brown-shirted Fascists massed and milled last week outside a squat, soldier-guarded mansion on Berlin's famed Wilhelmstrasse, shouted qualified approval of the occupant. They roared not "Hail Hindenburg!" but "Hail Hindenburg who ousted Brüning!" Plainly the only thing about Germany's Cabinet upset (TIME, June 6) which pleased the Hitlerites was that it meant the end, after 26 months, of what Germans have called the "Brüning System...
Under that system the Republic has been ruled for just over two years not primarily by the Reichstag but by Presidential decrees drafted and administered by Herr von Hindenburg's hand-picked protégé, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. He, a pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working bachelor soon won greater world esteem than any German diplomat since the late, great Dr. Stresemann. Throughout Germany last week the President's abrupt act in kicking his protege back into obscurity produced an impression never before associated with the name of HINDENBURG?symbol of Loyalty and Duty...
...recent Presidential election the Socialist Party supported Hindenburg, assured his re-election (TIME, April 18). Last week the famed and moderate Socialist Vorwärts said: "If the President had really considered a change of Government necessary and had acted accordingly he could not be reproached. But the way in which Dr. Brüning and his Cabinet, personally devoted to the President, were overthrown has profoundly altered in the widest circles the image of the man von Hindenburg. In the eyes of the German people it has clouded that image...
...proceedings of both of Germany's extreme parties in action. Chancellor Brüning was not unduly alarmed. Next day was Corpus Christi. He marched in the religious procession (first in Berlin since the War) to the Cathedral of St. Hedwig. Strengthened by this, he buttonholed President von Hindenburg for four hours and 45 minutes three days later, tried to persuade his old patron not to admit the Fascists to a share in the Government until after the Lausanne conference in June. Meanwhile, the Chancellor planned a new legislative program to break up big Junkers' estates to provide...
...President von Hindenburg this was too much. Under the influence of a group of German generals who have been intriguing against Chancellor Brüning for months, he decided against him and abruptly forced the resignation of his Cabinet. While the President cast about for a new protégé whom he might make Chancellor, Herr Brüning was asked to continue in office ad interim...