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...commissioned Fascist Hitler to try to form a Cabinet with a parliamentary majority, was not anxious that he should succeed. Herr Hitler drew from Old Paul what amounted to a stipulation that the President would not appoint him Chancellor unless he could obtain a "safe majority" in the Reichstag for a Cabinet pledged to continue all the policies of the hated von Papen "Cabinet of Monocles...
Next evening the letter (seven and one-half typed pages) was carried 200 yards from the Kaiserhof Hotel to the Presidential Palace. It proposed-having regard to the fact that all German Cabinets for the past two years have been based not on Reichstag support but on presidential decrees-that the President consent to formation of a Hitler Cabinet on the existing basis of "presidial" (presidential ) authority. Banker Schacht, knowing full well that Old Paul would reject this proposal (as the President proceeded to do), came out first with a fighting statement: "There is only...
...President to accept him as Chancellor chiefly by arguing that the Fascist party is now Germany's "sole bulwark against proletarianism." This argument, not mere Hitler claptrap, had strong elements of fact. Earlier in the week Dr. Paul Lobe, long considered a most moderate Socialist, Speaker of the Reichstag, with one short interlude, for twelve years (1920-32), made a pivotal speech. Seconded by other Socialist leaders, he called on the Socialist Party (Germany's second largest) to unite with the Communist Party (third largest) in a "solid proletarian front...
...Cabinet?" During the quasi-dictatorship of President von Hindenburg, whose Chancellors have been ruling by Presidential decrees (often in flat defiance of the Reichstag) Germans have coined such terms as "autarchy," and "presidial government" to describe what is really the eclipse of their democracy...
Facing the future, German observers were sure last week that the next Cabinet will be "presidial," irrespective of who becomes Chancellor or whether a majority in the Reichstag can be found. Should the Nazis succeed in building a coalition it would still remain true in Germany?as in Italy?that "Fascism is the negation of democracy." Should they fail, President von Hindenburg was considered certain to dissolve the newly elected Reichstag (TIME, Nov. 14), appoint another protege of himself and General-leutnant von Schleicher as Chancellor and continue to rule by decree...