FINANCE MEASURES.
Hindenburg Comes to Rescue of Minority Government. .' DICTATORIAL ATTITUDE. BERLIN, December.-2. President Hindenburg has signed a decree promulgating the finance measures for which the Chancellor, Dr. Brueningj found it impossible to obtain a Parliamentary majority. The opponents of the Chancellor regard this action as dictatorial though it is legal. The Republican constitution, however, provides that such a decree must ho/laid on the table in the Reichstag and cannot bg, modified. It must be accepted or rejected and if rejected must cither be withdrawn—which is out of the question —or the Reichstag must be dissolved. The President and the Chancellor in risking a hostile vote rely on the political parties' 'fear of the Hitlerites and their realisation that defeat would endanger Parliamentary Government an 3 render a. Fascist dictatorship possible. The Cabinet sat for 11 hours before coming to its decision to appeal tc the President. The decree covers 26 laws forming a three-year programme of financial and economic reforms. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 286, 3 December 1930, Page 7
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