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...Your Fingers!" President von Hindenburg showed his strong personal dislike on Aug. 13, 1932 when he received Herr Hitler standing and omitted to invite his guest to sit down. At that time neither Hitler nor Hindenburg knew what the other was going to say. They quarreled on their feet for 15 minutes. Handsome Adolf cheekily demanded that he be made Chancellor "with precisely the same power that Mussolini exercised after the march on Rome!" Old Paul replied in the tone of a Prussian school-teacher lecturing an urchin. He is said to have actually used the words...
What Had Happened? President von Hindenburg, according to his entourage, did not entrust Herr Hitler with an official mandate to form a Cabinet as Chancellor, did authorize him to confer with party leaders and report back to the President whether a Cabinet having a majority in the Reichstag could be formed. This left completely open the question of who should be Chancellor...
...Government circles reports that General-leutnant Kurt von Schleicher had secretly conferred a second time with Leader Hitler were not denied. President von Hindenburg asked Herr Hitler to report to him a day earlier than had been planned. They talked for 15 minutes and the President officially authorized the Fascist leader to try to form a Cabinet as Chancellor, but on "seven conditions" which were not made public. For the first time in his blatant, meteoric career Adolf Hitler was "getting warm." Stocks on the Berlin exchange, which eased when the von Papen Cabinet resigned, firmed again and began...
...Cabinet?" During the quasi-dictatorship of President von Hindenburg, whose Chancellors have been ruling by Presidential decrees (often in flat defiance of the Reichstag) Germans have coined such terms as "autarchy," and "presidial government" to describe what is really the eclipse of their democracy...
...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...