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...about twice as seriously as U. S. citizens. In 1928 in the largest U. S. election, 37,000,000 votes were cast out of a population of 120,000,000. Last week Germany, with a population of 63,000,000 cast nearly 37,000,000 votes for a new Reichstag. Police throughout Germany were kept on 48-hour emergency duty. No mass meetings were allowed. No drink stronger than beer might be sold. Despite these precautions nine people were killed and over 100 wounded in brawls through the country over the weekend. Still, compared with the disorder of recent weeks...
Results- Hardly had the polls closed than the prime result of the election flashed round the world: once again Adolf Hitler had failed to win legal control of the Government. He piled up the biggest vote in his party's history, but with one Reichstag seat for every 60,000 votes cast he was still 53 seats short of a working majority. The five principal German parties emerged last week with the following seats as compared with the last Reichstag election (September 1930): 1932 1930 National Socialists (Hitler) 230 107 Socialists 133 143 Communists (Ernst Thalmann...
There will be 607 Deputies in the new Reichstag, largest, in German 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...
Brüning. Meanwhile a new Reichstag election (which will cost the impoverished Government about $5,000,000) was only a week off and the Republic's bravest champion, pale ascetic former Chancellor Bruning, was vigorously campaigning, attracting the most enthusiastic crowds he has had in years wherever he spoke. Left-wing Socialists, his adversaries for years, were ready to vote for him to stop either von Papen or Hitler. Most observers rated his chances slim for next week, but by no means out of the German political picture...
...last Reichstag election (September 1930) the three chief parties won the following number of seats...