POLITICS IN GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 10

POLITICS IN GERMANY

BEUENING'S BATTLE

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BEKLIN, 9th December.

The next development will be Dr. Bruening's fight to prevent the convocation of the Reichstag, which practically all parties are demanding. Tha Socialists, although opposed to wage reductions, aro apparently prepared t» continue to tolerate tho Government. If the Economic and Peasants' Parties join the demand, the Eeichstag must be summoned immediately, when there is a possibility of a no-confidenec vote on the Bruening policy resulting in it dissolution and election or a HitlerBruening dictatorship. However, it ia believed that the Eeichstag's Housa Committee, which is meeting next week, will reject tho demand by a small majority. Dr. Bruening is at present negotiating with the Socialists and others, and is hopeful of reconciling them to the Government's standpoint. Bruening's vigorous declaration against Hitler struck the popular imagination at proof that President Hindenburg wai fully backing Bruening. It is generally expected that Hitter will now lie low for some months.

The Stahlhelm's consternation at th« banning of uniforms resulted in an appeal to President Hindenburg not to sign the decree as prohibition hit hardest the military and the most loyal Germans, and ' would destroy th« nation's fighting spirit and the tradition of the old field greys. The Eeichsbank has lowered its rat* from 8 to 7 per cent.