GERMAN CRISIS

Grey River Argus, 15 June 1931, Page 5

GERMAN CRISIS

A Decree Resented

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.)

(Received June 14 at 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, June 13.

A political crisis is threatened as the result of the People’s Party, after a long and stormy meeting, demanding the early convocation of the Reichstag to revise the Annual Emergency Decree cabled on June sth. The Nationalists are equally insistent on the revision of the decree, and they will support the People’s Party. A meeting of the Reichstag House Committee is fixed for June 16th. If revision is curried, the Government

will certainly resign. It is believed that the Socialists hold the key to the situation. They, too, are demanding the convocation of the Reichstag, if Chancellor Bruening refuses to alter the provisions of the decree, which is regarded as oppressive to the workers. The People’s Party are apparently aiming at a reorganisation of the Cabinet, and at putting a man more favourable to the industrialists in the place of the Foreign Minister, Dr Curtins, whose contention is that a convocation of the Reichstag would lead to increased economic tension.

Chancellor Bruening was hurried to consult President Von Hindenburg, who is on a holiday at Neudick.