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Like a red cloak at a bullfight was the red morocco brief case which Chancellor Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning carried ostentatiously under his arm last week as he entered the Reichstag to put his new Cabinet (TIME, April 7) to the test-a vote of confidence...
...case, everyone knew, contained a decree dissolving the Reichstag and ordering new elections. The decree was signed by the most potent name in Germany: HINDENBURG...
...opening the case, Chancellor Brüning could, under Article 48 of the German Constitution, make himself virtual dictator of the Reich for a period of three months which must pass before a new Reichstag could be elected and assembled. Crack! went the invisible Hindenburg whip and the Reichstag deputies in their confusion and buzzing excitement resembled an arena-full of balky bulls...
Soon the preliminary list of the "Hindenburg Cabinet" was ready. A middle-of-the-Reichstag list, it looked like 183 Centre votes. On left and right the Communists, Socialists and National Socialists would be able if they combined (and these extremes of fire and ice have combined in German politics more than once) to outflank the cabinet with an encircling 218 votes and defeat it when Dr. Bruning faces the Reichstag...
...cards: 1) The enormous psychological power of the name HINDENBURG, enough to paralyze many an opponent; 2) The wise retention of Dr. Julius Curtius (handpicked successor to STRESEMANN as Foreign Minister. With these two names' and a reputation, for integrity, Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning prepared to face the Reichstag...