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Hang Brüning! The absence in London of Germany's new Iron Chancellor, pale, nasal Heinrich Brüning, did him no good with German extremists. While the London conference was still in progress, Nationalists streamed into a Berlin hall to hear inflammatory speeches by Deputy Paul Bang (Finance Minister in the brief sinister Kapp "Putsch" government) and Alfred Hugenberg's disciple, Fritz Kleiner. Boomed Bang...
Fritz Kleiner leaped to his feet. "Brüning," he shouted, "is reaping the crop that Matthias Erzberger sowed...
...eyed, bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler was not at last week's party in person, but with other Nationalist chiefs he signed a telegram to Chancellor Brüning: "The entire national opposition calls attention, in all due form, to the fact that on the basis of its fundamental principles, it will not consider as legally obligatory on itself any fresh obligations which may be assumed toward France." Schmitz. Back from London came Brüning with nothing lost, little accomplished. Mindful of the Erzberger warning, he slipped off the train at a Berlin suburban station early in the morning...
...emergency measures that followed the first Cabinet meeting immediately after Chancellor Brüning's return may or may not have been directly due to Herr Schmitz...
Confidence. Final evidence of President Hindenburg's stabilizing power upon his country was seen when the Council of Elders of the Reichstag met on the eve of Chancellor Brüning's departure for Paris. Mere mention of the possibility that Old Paul might resign was sufficient to squelch all talk of convening the Reichstag, to force a vote of confidence in Old Paul's man Brüning...