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Though there had been no violence In Hamburg, the government of the Free City was seized under President von Hindenburg's decree "to check Communist violence imperiling the State...
Constitution Crimped. With the Reichstag fire as his excuse, weary old President Paul von Hindenburg signed a decree giving Chancellor Hitler & Cabinet a tyrant's powers. Totally suspended by this decree are the following seven articles of the German Constitution (some of them already modified by previous laws & decrees...
...ever seen is now taking place." ¶ The Berlin Bureau of the London Times flashed that Chancellor Hitler's henchmen "are in a position to brush aside any suggestion that their ambitions can now be thwarted from any quarter, even the highest" and declared that "President von Hindenburg is either a prisoner of the development initiated by him or is a prisoner in the Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse...
...Signed] Hindenburg...
...Chancellor Hitler announced that the Catholic Centre and Bavarian People's Parties had refused him their support (thus leaving him 46 seats short of a Reichstag majority), promptly obtained a decree dissolving the Reichstag from President von Hindenburg and called new elections for March...