GERMAN DISSENSIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 March 1930, Page 5

GERMAN DISSENSIONS

LUDENDORFF V. HINDENBURG. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, March 28. General Ludendorff has reappeared with an extraordinary attack on Pre- j sident Von Hindenburg, accusing his former comrade-in-arms of having destroyed that for which he (Hindenburg) fought as a Field Marshal, by agreeing to the Young Indemnity Plan. General Ludendorff declares that President Von Hindenburg has forfeited the right, according to the law of the old Army, to carry his field grey uniform, or to take it with him to his graveyard. General Ludendorff says: “President Von Hindenburg’s action conforms with his actions when he was Field Marshal in war time. It was always the same. I was so over-burdened with work and consumed by the desire to win a victory with my Army for the Emperor, that I failed to notice Marshal Von Hindenburg was being presented to his people by the Emperor as something entirely different from the person he really was. It was not until 1927 that I gained a clear insight into the happenings. It was on November 9, 1918, that I saw Hindenburg in his true light.” He accused President Von Hindenburg of inciting the officers of the Army to break their oath of fealty to the Kaiser, and of advising the Kaiser to flee to Holland. He declares that President Von Hindenburg was responsible for the revolution and every misfortune that has beset Germany ( since. Ho adds: —“History knows what the old Army thinks of actions such as his.” The newspapers are indignant, and describe the attack as a dirty stab in the back.

NEW CABINET FORMED. BERLIN, March 29. At President Von Hindenburg’s request, Doctor Henrich Bruening is endeavouring to form a Cabinet. He is 43 years of age, and during the war he won the Iron Cross. He entered the Reichstag in 1924, and became the Leader of the Centre Party. Significance is attached to an opinion expressed by the Centre Party’s official organ, “Germania,” to the effect that the Government may be forced to rule the country even against Parliament. LATER. Doctor Bruening has completed a Coalition Cabinet. There are only four new Ministers, including himself. The fact that Herr Curtins remains Foreign Minister indicates the maintenance of the late Dr. Stresemann’s policy, which Herr Curtins has carried on. The Nationalist, Herr Schiele’s retention of tho portfolio of Agriculture has created difficulties owing to Hugenberg’s recent attacks on Dr. Bruening, but President Hindenberg intervened, urging Herr Schiele to continue, as he wishes his Agrarian programme to be carried out.