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Caught unawares in Rome, barrel-chested Oberst (Colonel) Herman Goring, the Nazi Speaker of the Reichstag, instantly chartered a plane, made the longest Nazi flight. Leader Hitler swooped from Munich to Berlin's famed Tempelhofer flying field in a thundering trimotored ship crammed with political aides, two publicity men and an economist to advise him a la Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
What Had Happened? President von Hindenburg, according to his entourage, did not entrust Herr Hitler with an official mandate to form a Cabinet as Chancellor, did authorize him to confer with party leaders and report back to the President whether a Cabinet having a majority in the Reichstag could be formed. This left completely open the question of who should be Chancellor...
...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...
...Handsome Adolf" may listen more attentively to General Kurt von Schleicher. If Herr Hitler can be drawn into the Cabinet and his blatancy toned down the Fatherland will be on the highway back toward a representative Government. If no compromise is reached, the alternative is to dissolve the new Reichstag as soon as it meets and continue dissolving successive Reichstags until Old Paul von Hindenburg dies or refuses to sign decrees or until some exasperated German faction attempts a putsch...
...number of Reichstag seats varies, according to the number of votes cast. Last week 79% of those entitled to vote cast a ballot, as compared to 84% last July...