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They must therefore continue their toasts in expensive red wine "to the long life of President von Hindenburg!" and try as hard as possible to "tame" Adolf Hitler further. He was offered last August the Premiership of Prussia, the Vice Chancellorship of the Reich, three Federal Cabinet posts. He turned down all offers in hopes of winning a straight Nazi majority in the Reichstag...
...Reichstag election. Last week Hitler and von Schleicher went to the mat. Handsome Adolf, spurred on by his still more violent lieutenants, held out for complete control of the government. Sly von Schleicher offered him in turn first the Vice Chancellorship, an empty honor, with the Prussian Premiership thrown in; then the Ministry of the Interior and a series of minor posts. Finally possible was a compromise whereby Adolf Hitler might become Chancellor of Germany so long as Kurt von Schleicher remained Minister of Defense with the Nazi storm troops enlisted in the army as unarmed labor battalions. This might...
...Lang is right! Lang is right!" chanted 200,000 Laborite paraders in Sydney last week on election eve. Big, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, ousted from the Premiership of New South Wales last month by Governor Sir Philip Game (TIME, May 23), hoped that the issue of "British meddling" would return his Labor Party to power in the new Legislative Assembly, give him back the Premiership...
...only be ousted as Premier if his opponent can muster a majority. Up to the time this measure passed a plurality in the Diet had always sufficed to elect Prussia's Premier. Last week Prussia's shrewd old owl was variously reported as "determined to keep the Premiership at all costs" and as "so appalled by the losses of his own party, not to mention the Fascist gains, that he feels he must resign...
...bees) call their hornet-premier "Tardieu I'Americain." Pals are Andre Tardieu and Pierre Laval. They may sooner or later cease to be pals, for French politics has a way of rupturing personal friendships.* But up to last week Senator Laval and Deputy Tardieu had kept the Premiership of France bouncing back and forth between them for 26 out of the last 28 months. In the new Tardieu Cabinet shrewd Pal Laval, who was himself Premier only three weeks ago, lay low, took a minor post...