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...Germany the total number of votes cast is vital. For every 60,000 ballots cast one deputy goes to the Reichstag. Last week the turnout was so large (c. 35,790,000 against 25,379,045 at the last election in 1928) that the new chamber will have some 575 seats, instead...
...votes, his Communist party easily topped Berlin's poll. The Socialists were No. 2, with 346,014 ballots?thus proving Berlin the world's most radical capital of a Great Power next to Moscow. National returns showed a Communist gain throughout Germany of 40%, the party jumping from 54 Reichstag seats...
...spectacularly, but twice as sensational was the win of Brown. In the last Reichstag there was a "joke party" of twelve deputies, headed by Austrian-born Herr Adolf Hitler, crony of General Erich von Ludendorv with whom he spilled Bavarian blood in 1923 trying to stage a putsch (revolution). Scorned as a "wild man," this Fascist fanatic has been storming up and down depressed Germany, promising Prosperity if given enough votes to do two things: 1) replace Germany's "do nothing" Reichstag and President by a Dictator (presumably the "wild man"); 2) Repudiate Germany's obligations under the Young Plan...
Result: Demagog Hitler's Fascist party (named "National Socialist" to mislead workmen) rose last week from ninth to second rank, from twelve Reichstag seats to 107, from joke to menace...
With these paramount facts in mind the result of the election becomes a lucid alternative: either irascible Prime Minister "Iron Cross" Brüning, protege of President von Hindenburg, will refuse to accept defeat, dissolve the Reichstag a second time as he did last summer (TIME, July 28) and attempt to continue ruling by executive decree; or as is much more likely Herr Brüning's "Concentration Cabinet" of the Centre will quietly give way to a Left-Centre "Grand Coalition" of these same parties plus the Socialists. In either case Reds and Browns would be excluded, may be counted...