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...broad, big-boned and mighty-muscled, Speaker Hermann Goring cut the figure of a squat ogre. But slender and insignificant of mien. Chancellor Franz von Papen was present, carrying ostentatiously under his arm a potent slingshot & pebble: an undated decree dissolving the Reichstag signed by President von Hindenburg...
...Reichstag to live at least long enough for Herr von Papen to explain his scheme of lifting Germany by her own bootstraps out of Depression, his famed "One Year Plan.* Instead, before the Chancellor could start explaining, up popped Communist Deputy Ernst Torgler, shouting denunciation of President von Hindenburg for signing a decree earlier in the week which made the One Year Plan...
...voting began Germany's welterweight Chancellor dashed up to her heavyweight Speaker, held out toward him von Hindenburg's decree dissolving the Reichstag. Brushing this aside, 210-lb. Hermann Goring shouted: "Can't you see that a vote is taking place?"; drew thunderous cheers...
Amid pandemonium the Deputies voted "adjourment until tomorrow," thus constituting themselves a Rump Reichstag. Rumors flew that 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg would declare martial law, call out the Army and disperse the Reichstag with bayonets should it dare to meet. Not anxious to be pinched or prodded, Fascist Göring said that, after all, perhaps there might be no rump session...
...another Reichstag with in 60 days, but under martial law is a free election possible? German democracy faced last week the unmasked and unashamed autocracy of the President and his "Cabinet of Monocles." For the first time all parties of any consequence had united against National Hero Paul von Hindenburg. Grotesquely enough, they had united on a Communist motion...