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...since they started two years ago on their skyrocket rise. The Nazis dropped from 230 Reichstag seats to 195 and in each of Germany's 35 electoral districts their vote fell off, nowhere by less than 10,000 ballots. Nazis suffered their worst setback in President Paul von Hindenburg's home district of East Prussia...
Thus, by no stretch of the imagination, can German voters be said to have approved the dictatorship of a Cabinet which rules Germany under decrees signed by President Paul von Hindenburg...
Significance. Everything thus continues to depend on the life of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg whose doctor expects him to live many a year. Should he die in the present crisis General von Schleicher & Friends could no longer rule by the President's decree and could not hope that the German people would elect another President favorable to them...
...dictatorship or monarchy in Germany at the present time is extremely improbable, inasmuch as Von Hindenburg's influence would be strongly against proposals of this sort. What will probably happen is that both Von Hindenburg and Von Papen will present to the Reichstag when it meets in December a program of constitutional reform in a conservative direction. This program will probably provide for a conservative upper house to act as a check on the Reichstag acting in much the same way as the United States Senate or the English House of Lords. Other proposals may include raising the voting...
Profoundly disillusioned, the Cabinet of Bavarian Premier Dr. Heinrich Held dashed off a telegram to President von Hindenburg, accused Chancellor von Papen of "serious invasions into the constitutional status of all German states...