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...Article 48 of the constitution," Professor Friedrich explained, "gives the power 'to take the necessary measures to restore public safety' not to the president alone, but provides a check on his action by the cabinet and the Reichstag. And since the cabinet is made up of representatives of various parties, and only those extraordinary measures can be taken which have a direct bearing on the specific emergency, there is no fear of Germany's ever being dominated by a Mussolini. Article 48 is a wise provision which enables the government to take immediate action such as Bruening is attempting with...
...Herr Hitler had spoken as he did in the sanctum sanctorum of German justice at Leipzig, into what inflammatory bombast might he not burst when the new Reichstag convenes on Oct. 16 next? Herren Hindenburg and Briining know as well as anyone else that the German Republic was actually proclaimed "not in written but in spoken words" from a window of the Reichstag by one Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist deputy who had neither "right" to do so nor "reason" to expect success (except the shouts of the mob). What has happened once can happen again...
...cannot obtain such support for himself or arrange it for some other "moderate," Prime Minister Brüning, according to his closest friends last week, was agreed with Old Paul that they must "save the nation from itself" by adjourning the new Reichstag (only just elected) and embarking on a high-handed program of rule by "executive decree"?in other words Dictatorship, a procedure made quasi-legal by article 48 of the German Constitution conferring on the President "extraordinary powers...
Actually the expose was tame, consisted of stolen Fascist papers which, if genuine, prove: 1) that the 107 new Fascist deputies will enter the Reichstag and "insidiously refrain" from blatant, obstructionist tactics, biding their time; 2) that Hitler agents will begin a secret campaign to proselytize the army and state police for Fascism; 3) finally, after much boring from within the German government by legal means, a surething Fascist Putsch will be attempted...
...flash of the moment is brightest and can move unsettled nations. Hitler and the Fascist gains in the Reichstag, Russia's tapping of her tremendous resources, the rumors of Russia's dealing on the world wheat market, the bickering in the League, China's militarism, Japan's watchful waiting, the naval break between France and Italy, the international tariff blockades, all these things and many more, make these days portentous. Sarajevo was but a spark, and there are signs of internal combustion the world over...