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...Hitlering Hitler. Since President von Hindenburg continued to back Chancellor von Papen to the limit last week, Germany's largest parties (Fascist & Socialist) were faced with the alternative of attempting a coup d'état or filing weak protests...
...assertion that the Speaker acted unconstitutionally in permitting the Reichstag to vote censure after the Chancellor had flourished a presidential decree dissolving the Reichstag. This famed decree, when scrutinized last week, proved to be in the Chancellor's handwriting except for the signature of Paul von Hindenburg. It was dated at Neudeck, the President's country estate, but von Papen had scratched out "Neudeck" and written in "Berlin," evidently feeling that he thus made the decree more legal...
...exist after a Reichstag has been dissolved, exercised its specific constitutional right to summon the Chancellor and his Ministers for examination. They simply did not come. Phlegmatic Germans let the matter rest there. Adolf Hitler quit Berlin for his Munich headquarters. There were no riots. Calmly, majestically President von Hindenburg proceeded to out-Hitler Hitler by issuing yet another drastic decree...
...means or otherwise to fortify their power. Perhaps the Government's "military sport camps" will entice young voters away from the "private armies" already maintained by Germany's Fascists, Socialists and Steel Helmets. Perhaps Germans will obey for a while longer the absolute will of Paul von Hindenburg who celebrates his 85th birthday next fortnight. Commented Karl H. von Wiegand, No. 1 German Hearstman: "There is one man in Germany who, like Gandhi, wants nothing for himself but everything for his country: Hindenburg...
...Alexander II]" boasted Assassin Frolenko last week. "For two years we hunted that scoundrel Tsar and at last we got him!" "Do you still approve your deed? Do you still approve of terror generally?" "I certainly do!" replied the Bomb Boy, who is a year younger than President von Hindenburg, "I certainly do!" Besides Josef Stalin the Society of For mer Political Prisoners (all of whom must have served bona fide Tsarist prison terms for revolutionary offenses) counts some 3,000 members, estimates that they spent collectively "almost 16,000 years in chains and 5.000 years undergoing other punish ment...