GERMAN REICHSTAG

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 221, 1 September 1932, Page 8

GERMAN REICHSTAG

HASTY MEASURES TO DEFEND ITSELF READY TO DISCHARGE DIFFICULT TASK. MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT. ; Berlin, Aug. 30. wfter the election of President, or Speaker, of the Reichstag and three vice-presidents, respectively Catholic, Nationalist and Bavarian People’s Party, the House proceeded with hasty measures to defend itself against ex tinction. Two committees, one on foreign affairs and the other described “for the protection of the rights ot popular representation,” will sit even when the Reichstag is dissolved. The House, therefore, eagerly nominated these bodies. Herr Goering then secured assent to his telegraphing President von Hindenburg requesting him immediately to receive the President and vice-presi-dents of the Reichstag. Amid cheers he declared: “Before the entire German nation 1 affirm that to-day’s sitting has shown that the new Reichstag possesses a national majority capable of work.” Herr Goering’s telegram stated that the Reichstag was ready to discharge its difficult task. Therefore, he sug gested that there were no grounds for dissolution. It is understood that the President replied that, he would meet Herr Goering in Berlin next. week. Two thousand Nazis outside the Reichstag shouted demands, for quashing the Beuthen death sentences and became so threatening that the police used batons and made many arrests.

THE BEUTHEN SENTENCES. HITLER’S FIERCE OUTBURST. Berlin, Aug. 23. “Von Papen! Your objectivity does not exist for me. lam unsuited to become the executioner of patriotic fighters for freedom,’’ says Herr Hitler in an open letter to the Chancellor. “If the Government thinks I will stand for its stupid provocation it is badly mistaken. Heaven may send ns torture upon torture, but our movement can cope with the guillotine.” Denouncing the sentence of death passed upon the murderers of a Communist, the Nazi leader declares that the Chancellor and his Government “will have written their names in history with the blood of patriotic fighters.'' Regardless of persons or parties the Government declares its intention to enforce the law, says the Berlin correspondent of the “Times.” Its reply to Herr Hitler’s declaration is that it will not permit revolt against its orders. These violent attacks on the verdict, it says, should rebound on the originators of the event instead of being directed against the State, which is compelled to resort to drastic measures in the general interest.

“For us Nazis one soul is not. equal to another,” writes Herr Rosenberg, editor of the Nazi organ “Volkischer Beobachter,” in seeking to justify the Beuthen murder. “We do not recognise abstract justice,” he declares. “We aim at the creation of a strong German type. Our creed is the protection of that type, ana all things in law and society, politics and economy, must be subordinated to it.” The article goes on to argue tnat tne contention that the death sentences were due to the Court arriving at its decision uninfluenced by political considerations, “reveals the gulf between our way of thinking and that of the reactionaries, because we declare that political considerations ought to be an essential factor in all trials. Equality cannot be upheld if national safety is going to be preserved.” Colonel Boehm, a Nazi leader, when visiting the condemned men at Beuthen promised them that the Nazis would not suffer them to be executed, and that the day of their liberation would soon come.