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...voice tense with suppressed fury, Chancellor Franz von Papen broadcast over the government radio last week a declaration that his dictatorial and aristocratic Cabinet "corresponds to the will of the people," despite the Reichstag's vote of nonconfidence in the Cabinet 513 to 32* (TIME, Sept...
Everyone knew the Chancellor would use this weapon rather than risk a vote of no confidence (which would force his Cabinet to resign). But most Deputies expected the new Reichstag to live at least long enough for Herr von Papen to explain his scheme of lifting Germany by her own bootstraps out of Depression, his famed "One Year Plan.* Instead, before the Chancellor could start explaining, up popped Communist Deputy Ernst Torgler, shouting denunciation of President von Hindenburg for signing a decree earlier in the week which made the One Year Plan...
...Down with von Papen's Starvation Cabinet!" wound up Herr Torgler, then presented a motion of no confidence on the issue of the President's decree...
Baffled, though only for an instant by mighty Goring, Chancellor von Papen flung the decree of dissolution at the Speaker's desk, stalked from the Reichstag, drew catcalls. Voting continued. Tellers kept on counting, as though the Reichstag were undissolved. Presently they announced: 513 votes of no confidence, 32 of confidence, five abstentions...
...much diluted. They are nationalists and militarists, but do not believe in seizing the government for themselves. They are not openly antiSemitic, but have been described as "susceptible to anti-Semitism." The great difference is that the Stahlhelm backs, while the Nazis oppose, the Government of Chancellor Franz von Papen. Last week Hitlerites struck a foul blow. Der Angriff, Hitlerite paper of deformed, bitter little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, published an article to prove that Col. Düsterberg, who frequently has indulged in Jew-baiting, really had a Jewish grandfather, Selig Abraham Düsterberg. According to Der Angriff...