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Adolf Hitler was in a tight place last week. Canny Chancellor Heinrich Bruning had helped to put him there, first by stealing Fascist Hitler's own battle-cry of "No more Reparations!" then by seeking his aid to keep Old Paul von Hindenburg in the presidency after his term expires in May (TIME, Jan. 18). Handsome Adolf would have to think twice before ousting the man who might end Germany's "economic slavery" (Bruning), and four or five times before opposing the "Idol of the Fatherland" (Old Paul). From his conference with Chancellor Bruning Herr Hitler stalked in a huff...
...Germany immediately wanted to know: If not von Hindenburg, whom would the Nazis support? They must have a hero, preferably a War hero, a man around whom could be thrown some of the glamour that attached itself to the Hero of Tannenberg. The Nazis had such a man: handsome, stern-faced Franz...
Last week Chief Arthur Mahraun of the Young German Order started a movement to get a national plebiscite to re-elect President von Hindenburg. Adolf Hitler wrote Chancellor Bruning a belated letter flatly refusing to help prolong the President's term by Reichstag action, whereupon the Government set Feb. 28 as election day. On the subject of election candidates Herr Hitler was glumly silent. Silent', too, was Oberst Epp. With so much almost within his grasp he did not want to overstep...
...thoughtless Germans, May is still a long way off. But never for one instant has pale Chancellor Heinrich Bruning forgotten that according to Germany's Constitution Old Paul von Hindenburg's term of office is up in May. With another Reparations conference hanging over his head, he stood face to face with the prospect of a new Presidential election and general elections to the Prussian Diet, elections in which his opponents the Hitlerites were almost sure to make enormous gains...
Heinrich Bruning did not wait for May. Last week he summoned Fascist Hitler to Berlin and made him a proposition: so that the Fatherland could present a united front to the world in this winter of her greatest trial, would Hitler agree to an extension of President von Hindenburg's term...