YON PAPEN'S NEW ROLE
STATE COMMISSIONER
REICH GOVERNMENT MOVES
DICTATORIAL POWERS
United Proas Association—By Electric Tele-
V eraph—Copyrleht; , (Received 21st July, 10 a.m.)
' .BERLIN, 20tli July. . The Reich' Government has appointed the . Chancellor, - Dr, yon Papen, State Commissioner of, Prussia -.with practically dictatorial powers.,. Dr. yon Papen informed the Prussian Ministers that the prevailing conditions had failed to guarantee law and order and therefore he had been appointed Commissioner until the new Prussian Diet could agree to elect' its own Prime Minister. ' • ■
-: The* decision implies' the. acceptance of Herr Hitler's argument that Socialist rule was unable to prevent disorders in Prussia.,
A state of emergency has been pro"claimed in Berlin and Brandenburg. The police are under : -.j military" command. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 18, 21 July 1932, Page 11
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