Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gotha who recently married his daughter Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler was nevertheless unable last week to persuade President von Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor of the Reich...
...Hindenburg-Hitler negotiations which began with their "extraordinarily cordial meeting" fortnight ago continued last week through an exchange of formal letters which Berlin wits dubbed "the game of questions & answers." With each exchange it became clearer that the President, though he had commissioned Fascist Hitler to try to form a Cabinet with a parliamentary majority, was not anxious that he should succeed. Herr Hitler drew from Old Paul what amounted to a stipulation that the President would not appoint him Chancellor unless he could obtain a "safe majority" in the Reichstag for a Cabinet pledged to continue all the policies...
...stipulation could not have been fulfilled by any German last week. Plainly it was a trap to embarrass Leader Hitler and stamp him with the stigma of having "failed" to form a Cabinet. Realizing this, ex-Corporal Hitler decided to drop his negotiations with ex-Fieldmarshal von Hindenburg, told his aides to draft a final letter to the President and hied himself to Berlin's State Opera, enjoyed a rollicking performance of Die Meistersinger...
...months is the approximate period necessary to dissolve a Reichstag and re-elect another. This year President von Hindenburg has already dissolved two Reichstags. Dare he dissolve a third? To do so would be equivalent to breaking once & for all with the German Republic, setting up a pure dictatorship...
...Cabinet will be "presidial," irrespective of who becomes Chancellor or whether a majority in the Reichstag can be found. Should the Nazis succeed in building a coalition it would still remain true in Germany?as in Italy?that "Fascism is the negation of democracy." Should they fail, President von Hindenburg was considered certain to dissolve the newly elected Reichstag (TIME, Nov. 14), appoint another protege of himself and General-leutnant von Schleicher as Chancellor and continue to rule by decree...