HITLER AS CHANCELLOR

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 31 January 1933, Page 5

HITLER AS CHANCELLOR

German Nazi Leader’s Post APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT SUPPRESSION OF COMMUNISTS FIB ST EXPECTED STEP. (Unwell Press Association —By Electric lelegropn Copyright.) Received 1,1.20 a.m. to-day. BERLIN, Jaii, 30. Herr Adollpli Hitler, the Nazi leader, has been appointed as Chancellor arid Dr. von Papen as Vice-Chancellor. Dr. von Papen, besides being ViceChancellor, now becomas the Reich Commissioner for Prussia. News of Herr Hitler’s appointment to the Chancellorship spread like -wildfire through the city. Great crowds gathered outside the chancellory, and the police had to clear a way for liis carriage. One of Ilerr Hitler’is first steps will he the suppression of the Communist Party. General Schleicher is of the opinion that Herr Hitler’s appointment was President’s Hindeburg’s best escape from a perplexing situation. Herr Hitler’s spokesman says he has taken the oath of allegiance to the Republican Constitution and will rule legally.

ALARM FELT BY NATION. FEAR OF DICTATORSHIP. LONDON, Jan. 30. Opinion is groAving in Germany that the Nationalists’ negotiations for the formation of a parliamentary Government will fail, forcing President von Hindenburg either to break with the constitution or to resign in favour of Herr Adolf Hitler (leader of the Nazis) or the ex-Crown Prince, says the Berlin correspondent of the, “Daily Mail.” General van Schleicher's resignation from the position of Chancellor lias thrown the nation into a state of alarm bordering on panic. Almost the Avhole nation opposes Herr von Patnen. who has been asked iby the President to form a government. Newspapers declare a clique of landowners has overthroAvn General von Schleicher and is noAv planning a dictatorship.