EVENTS MOVE QUICKLY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 64, 13 September 1932, Page 7

EVENTS MOVE QUICKLY

DRAMATIC SCENES

yon papers bombshell:

(Received 13th September, noon.) ■ BERLIN, 12th September. More quickly than: anyone expected the Reichstag has undergone dissolution in the" most dramatic circumstances in Germany's bisiory. It was a case of stroke and counter-stroke with Herr yon Papen forearmed as the executioner. He had secretaries busy all night long preparing a policy speech with which he -expected to open the proceedings, but- the Communists proposed an alteration in the. agenda, whereby a motion to rescind an emergency decree should be first voted upon. The Papenitcs, to everyone's surprise, did, not avail themselves of the opportunity to raise the" single dissentient necessary to defeat the proposal, which the Communists promptly enlarged to a vote of no-confidence. The Nazis, also taken on the hop, obtained a half hour^g adjournment .to consider the position, after which the President of the Chamber, Herr Goering, announced that there was no objection to taking a vote. Then the Chancellor, with face set, walked briskly to the rostrum, to submit President Hindenburg's dissolution decree. Eerr Goering impatiently tried to brush him aside, saying, "Don't yon see the House is busy taking a vote?" The hostile House wildly cheered the reproof, but Herr yon* Papen coolly unfolded the document and laid if in front of the Speaker, all the Cabinet members then withdrawing amid the Communists' shouts of "Down with the Government.""* r The cheering, when the Government's defeat by 513 votes to 32 was announced, was renewed deaieningly as Herr Goering announced that the decree was void, as the Government had already been overthrown. WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? What will happen next is the cause of much conjecture. Herr Goering ordered' the House to reassemble tomorrow, but there is more than a hint in to-night's gossip that the deputies to-morrow will find the Reichstag heavily guarded. It is even suggested that a state of emergency v will be declared, permitting troops to cordon the building. Constitutionalists assert that Herr yon Papen complied with the law in depositing the decree on" the' Speaker's table before the voting began. It transpires that President Hindenburg's reasons for dissolution were "owing to the danger of the Reichstag demanding the cancellation of my decree of 4th September." The air later cleared quickly on Herr yon Papen's intimation that measures were being- taken to prevent the Reichstag reassembling. Herr Goering cancelled the summons for a meeting tomorrow, perhaps because the Socialists announced that they were boycotting it. The Standing Orders Committee was convened to discuss the position. The Nazis are now .threatening to test the legality of the dissolution in the Supreme Court, but Cabinet is preparing for elections on 13tfr November, in which the Government spokesman tips the Nazis to experience a setback.