GERMAN POLITICS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1929, Page 7

GERMAN POLITICS

NATIONALIST PARTY SPLIT. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) BERLIN, December 4. A revolt of the German Nationalists against Herr Hagenberg’s policy , of opposition.-to the Young Reparations plan has quickly developed. Twelve members of the Party have already resigned. It is expected that the party will lose at least twenty members. Herr Westarp has resigned the leadership in the Reichstag, but he explains’ - that this does not mean he is seceding from the party. The secessionists, with the Right J Wing of the Peopled Party, may create a new party, constituting stronger conservative opposition than the Nationalists have been able to provide. This will leave the Nationalists, hitherto numbering seventy-eight, an unimportant group, made still smaller by the fact that the Right Wing is drifting towards Hitler’s Fascist party. Herr Kloenne, one of the seceders, declared that Hagenberg had no strategic insight. He pressed for the plebiscite against the opinion of the bourgeoisie, against the President of the Reich, and against reason. Violent scenes occurred at the Reichstag on Hen ; Severing proposing the first reading of the Bill for the protection of the Republic. Communists called out “Bloodhounds and murderer.” . Twenty-four ' deputies were suspended. A Bill was also introduced to make a party proposing a plebiscite to pay for it.