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...Hindenburg Dictatorship? In Berlin, tense with rumors of imaginary Fascist putsches which did not materialize last week, stern old President Paul von Hindenburg and grimly determined Chancellor Heinrich Briining considered what they should...
...Herr Hitler had spoken as he did in the sanctum sanctorum of German justice at Leipzig, into what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
...German government feared a Putsch, its leaders hid their emotions well. Both President von Hindenburg and his protege, Prime Minister Brüning (whose Catholic Centre party gained seven seats in the election) ended the week by going off for a rustic, post-election rest...
...President of Germany, like the President of the U. S., is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and has no uniform. While two army divisions and all ten of Germany's divisional staffs sloshed back and forth in the rain last week, President Paul von Hindenburg wore the last uniform that was his by right, crammed his grizzled head into the spiked pickelhaube of a Field Marshal of the Imperial German army, and motored, soaking wet, from regiment to regiment. At every headquarters he rumbled pertinent questions. When answers pleased lim he nodded vigorously, at other answers...
With these paramount facts in mind the result of the election becomes a lucid alternative: either irascible Prime Minister "Iron Cross" Brüning, protege of President von Hindenburg, will refuse to accept defeat, dissolve the Reichstag a second time as he did last summer (TIME, July 28) and attempt to continue ruling by executive decree; or as is much more likely Herr Brüning's "Concentration Cabinet" of the Centre will quietly give way to a Left-Centre "Grand Coalition" of these same parties plus the Socialists. In either case Reds and Browns would be excluded, may be counted...