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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...
...Cabinet proposes to revise the German constitution. Berlin rumor said that the word "republic" will be omitted. Conceivably the von Papen Cabinet, acting by presidential decree, could so alter the fundamental law of Germany as to prevent the Hitlerites, who won 14,000,000 votes in the last Reichstag election (TIME, Aug. 8), from scoring further gains. Said Satevepost correspondent Isaac Marcos-son, returning from Germany last week: "Chancellor von Papen will disenfranchise 50% of Adolf Hitler's followers if he raises the voting age, as he may, to 25 years" [from...
Fascist Speaker Wilhelm Goring of the Reichstag sued Chancellor von Papen, branding as libelous the Chancellor's assertion that the Speaker acted unconstitutionally in permitting the Reichstag to vote censure after the Chancellor had flourished a presidential decree dissolving the Reichstag. This famed decree, when scrutinized last week, proved to be in the Chancellor's handwriting except for the signature of Paul von Hindenburg. It was dated at Neudeck, the President's country estate, but von Papen had scratched out "Neudeck" and written in "Berlin," evidently feeling that he thus made the decree more legal...
Meanwhile the Reichstag's Supervisory Committee, which continues to exist after a Reichstag has been dissolved, exercised its specific constitutional right to summon the Chancellor and his Ministers for examination. They simply did not come. Phlegmatic Germans let the matter rest there. Adolf Hitler quit Berlin for his Munich headquarters. There were no riots. Calmly, majestically President von Hindenburg proceeded to out-Hitler Hitler by issuing yet another drastic decree...
Under their Constitution Germany's people must elect another Reichstag with in 60 days, but under martial law is a free election possible? German democracy faced last week the unmasked and unashamed autocracy of the President and his "Cabinet of Monocles." For the first time all parties of any consequence had united against National Hero Paul von Hindenburg. Grotesquely enough, they had united on a Communist motion...