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Germany's new Iron Chancellor 46-year-old Heinrich Brüning, had several things in his favor. The country remained peaceable; there was little rioting. In Düsseldorf, Coblenz and Gelsenkirchen gangs of hooligans threw up barricades, exchanged shots with the police, made desultory raids on food shops. But for the most part people seemed to remember too vividly for repetition the horrors of Germany's other great crisis, the inflation period of 1923. There was no direct parliamentary opposition. For the past year Iron Chancellor Brüning has managed to rule Germany...
...sense of duty. When he took the oath to defend the German Constitution he meant every word of it. He has not deviated. Germans mistrust their politicians but they trust Old Paul. They know he is incorruptible, ein' feste burg. That Iron Chancellor Brüning is a Hindenburg disciple is his greatest strength...
...residence, the greystone rococo Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. He did not leave the premises. Three times a day, his shepherd dog, Rolf, by his side, he tramped the gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance or "Money Tsar" before reopening the banks partially, to pay salaries, wages and taxes only. (Unemployed persons not on the dole were allowed to withdraw...
...power. Suddenly the news spread that Hugenberg owed $5,000,000 to the Danat bank which failed fortnight ago. Then was seen some of the shrewdness of the old man in the President's Palace and his keen-eyed disciple. By letting Danat fail, Brüning and Hindenburg had muffled Hugenberg. Munich authorities, on orders from Berlin, suppressed Hitler's paper Völkischer Beobachter (People's Observer...
Press. Two other important decrees passed over Old Paul's desk before Chancellor Brüning went off to the Paris conference. German newspapers were ordered to print "the full text of any statement or correction which the Government orders to be published without any editorial comment in the same edition and on any page that the Government may select." This was to prevent party organs from garbling official decrees to suit their own ends. "Any periodical endangering the public safety" continued the decree, "is liable to confiscation...