MILDER MEASURES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 303, 22 December 1932, Page 7

MILDER MEASURES

SCHLEICHER PLAN.

Decree Cancelling von Papen

Repressions.

QUIETENING OF PASSIONS. (United r.A.— Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, December 21. The Chancellor, General Schleicher, in his effort to inaugurate a milder regime in Germany, has begun by the publication of a Presidential decree, cancelling most of the Papen Government's repressive political measures.

It is officially explained that the cancellation is due to the visible quietening of political passions, and the public is recommended to settle its political differences in a manner worthy of a civilised people.

Belying the hopes that unemployment was declining the unemployed in the first half of December increased by 249,000 to 5,604,000. Cabinet has approved an agreement between the Reichsbank and the Ministers of Finance and Economics to provide the Commissioner for Employment, Herr Gereke, 500,000,000 marks for the immediate provision of work.

"The Times" correspondent at Berlin states that about 15,000 political and other prisoners will be released at Christmas under the Amnesty Bill, which passed the Reichstag by a single vote. Any attempt to keep Nazi, Socialist and Communist prisoners in the cells over the holidays would have led to a meeting of the Reichstag and a Christmas crisis.