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...went bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler last week. He was led into the former office of the late great Bismarck. Seated at the Iron Chancellor's old desk, his soft white hands folded before him, sat aged President Paul von Hindenburg. Near him stood smooth, grey Chancellor Franz von Papen and the State Secretary of the Reich, Dr. Otto Meissner...
...your future course to keep always in mind your duty to the Fatherland and your responsibility to the German people." Adolf Hitler made no promise, clicked his heels, bowed, left the room. He rushed into conference with other Nazi leaders before returning to his headquarters at Munich. Chancellor von Papen dashed in another direction to a Cabinet meeting. Old Paul took his cane and walked slowly under the linden trees in the Chancellery garden. Thus ended a week of as tense plotting, bargaining and intrigue as Germany has seen since the War. Hauptmann von Schleicher. The most important...
...history. Simplifying the returns, it means that the Nazis and other Right Wing Parties will have a total of 277 seats. The Socialists and other Left Wing Parties will muster 241 seats not counting the all-important group of 89 Communists. European observers saw no reason for Chancellor von Papen to resign his Government, felt that the unexpected strength of the Socialist and Communist vote would bind him to milder utterances and a more moderate foreign policy unless he and Minister of Defense von Schleicher attempt to rule by open dictatorship...
...morning after election day Nazi papers loudly demanded just such a move. It seemed unlikely that the "Cabinet of Monocles" would comply. Those 89 Communists represent over 5,000,000 voters of a very dangerous temper. The Communist Deputies will be extremely useful to Herr von Papen from time to time in keeping the Hitlerites in their place. That being so, the balance of power last week was in the thin, capable hands of ascetic former Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. His personal party, the Catholic Centrists, had made good their campaign slogan "Back to Büning...
Adolf Hitler has certainly gained more than 26 seats' worth of votes since, but dopesters found the figures practically useless as a gauge for next week since the men in the saddle, the von Papen Junkers, have no vote-getting political organization at all, and will prove unwilling to hand the Chancellorship to handsome Adolf should all their followers vote...