PARTY DEADLOCK

Northern Advocate, 3 August 1932, Page 5

PARTY DEADLOCK

GERMAN REICHSTAG ENFORCEMENT OF TRUCE FREE HAND FOR CABINET. RECONSTRUCTION OBJECTIVE. (Times Cable.) (Received 0 a.m.) LONDON, August 2. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Dr. Erneht, has warned all organisations and individuals against further incitement to “bloody terror. ’ ’

Ho says tho Government will not shrink from drastic measures to enforce the political truce. The press is ordered to refrain from inflaming' the passions of the people under penalty of rigorous repression. There were 420 arrests in Berlin last night. The Government announces that, in view of the result of the election, it will return to its original task of con structive legislation. It will view the impeding of debates calmly, since a majority sufficient to reject it could not easily bo found. The Cabinet has drafted a comprehensive plan of reconstruction which, it believes will be approved by . the majority of the members of the Reichstag. It is stated semi-officially that the Reichstag will be asked to pass.a law giving the Cabinet a free hand in financial and economic affairs, without recourse to presidential decrees. If the House proves recalcitrant it will probably be dispersed.

JUST WHAT THEY WANTED. PAPEN-SCHL,ETCHER DOMINANCE. SETBACK FOR HITLER. (Received 0 a.m.) * PARTS, August 1 • The result of the election in Germany has occasioned no real surprise in Paris. The Press is neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, declaring that Herr: von. Papcn and Herr von ..Schleicher have got exactly what they wanted—a. divided Reichstag which they can rule, ignore or suppress, according to circumstances.

The general .impression is that Germany’s "fateful day ’’ has not changed the political outlook. Herr Hitler is held definitely to have lost his chance of gaining power, at least by constitutional means.

COALITION NOT WANTED. APPEAL TO NAZIS, ' (Received. 11. HO a.m.) BERLIN, August 2. The Government will not negotiate for a coalition. Reichstag parties wishing to share the responsibility must approach Cabinet. Herr .von -Papon declared that the Nazis must co-operate in the reconstruction of Germany. He suggested establishing an Upper House and emphasised the need for electoral reform. Ho added that Germany at present is too occupied to discuss the question of a monarchy or a republic.