HINDENBURG ACTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 11

HINDENBURG ACTS

A FINANCIAL DECREE

BOLD STEP RISKED

BERLIN, 2nd December. President Hindenburg lias signed a decree promulgating finance measures for which Dr. Heinrich Bruening, leader of the Coalition Cabinet, found it impossible to obtain a Parliamentary majority. Opponents regard the action as dictatorial, though the legal Republican Constitution, however, provides that a decree must be tabled in thq' Reichstag and cannot be modified, but must be accepted or rejected. If- it is rejected the President must withdraw, which is out of the question, or the Reichstag must dissolve. President Hindenburg and Dr. Bruening, in risking a hostile vote, rely iyon the political parties' fear of the Hitlerites and the realisation that defeat will endanger Parliamentary government and render Fascist dictatorship possible. Cabinet sat for eleven hours before coming to a decision to appeal to President Hindenburg. The decree covers twenty-six laws, forming a three years' programme of financial and economic reforms.