GERMAN CLAIMS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 269, 13 October 1932, Page 7

GERMAN CLAIMS

FULL SOVEREIGNTY. EQUALITY OF RIGHTS. REFORM OF CONSTITUTION. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 13, 9.40 a.m. BERLIN, Sept. 12.. “No statesmen acknowledging the nation’s fundamental rights as a safe guarantee of peace can oppose Germany’s restoration to full sovereignty, freedom and equality of rights,” declared Herr von Papen. “The time had definitely come to reform the Weimar constitution and create an unshakeable governing authority above party. : Germany needs an upper chamber closely identified with the legislators. Reforms will be effected in consultation with the States. Prussia will not be absorbed, but the Reich-Prussia dualism will be abolished.”

By the constitution of the German Republic, adopted on July 51, 1919, the legislative power is vested in the Reichstag and National Council. The President of the Republic is elected for a term of seven years. Legislation requires the assent of tho Reichstag and the National Council, but if tho President decrees a law approved by the Reichstag it may be referred to the people. STORY OF A PLOT. DECLARED TO BE WITHOUT FOUNDATION. Received October 13, 8.35 a.m . BERLIN, Oct. 12. It is officially declared that the story published by Vorwaerts, that the exCrown Prince is plotting for the restoration of the Monarchy, is the product of the paper’s imagination.