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With Chancellor Adolf Hitler seeking control of the Reichstag by a campaign of unparalleled violence and bitterness (TIME, Feb. 13, et seq.) leading up to the General Election Sunday March 5, suddenly this week the Reichstag Building caught fire...
...Reichstag building when small, bespectacled, aging Socialist Paul Lobe tried to call the Reichstag Committee for Protection of Civil Rights to order as its chairman he was shoved out of the chair by six-foot Nazi Lawyer Hans Frank who shouted: "You Marxist liar! You're unfit to preside. I declare myself chairman!" As Socialist, Communist and Centrist committeemen stalked out, one of them lit a cigar, had it wrenched from his teeth by a Nazi who cried: "Show respect to the Chairman...
...Chancellor Hitler announced that the Catholic Centre and Bavarian People's Parties had refused him their support (thus leaving him 46 seats short of a Reichstag majority), promptly obtained a decree dissolving the Reichstag from President von Hindenburg and called new elections for March...
With Premier Braun & Cabinet thus politically annihilated by a stroke of Der Feldmarshal's pen, Lieut.-Colonel von Papen proclaimed dissolution of the Prussian Diet and elections March 5, the same day as the Reichstag elections...
...radio microphone, instead of to the Reichstag, Chancellor Hitler read his Cabinet's program speech, actually a campaign harangue which will be played on Party phonographs and plastered on official billboards throughout Germany...