GERMAN CRISIS OVER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21007, 19 October 1931, Page 6

GERMAN CRISIS OVER.

The passing of the political crisis in Germany is a cause of relief and satisfaction. Had the motion of noconfidence been earried in the Reichstag, the efforts being made to restore economic stability would have been brought to a standstill and tho policy of co-operation with the rest of Europe been reversed. There was no mistaking the issue. For the time being, parties with a revolutionary objective sank their differences in a determination to oust the Government. Herr Hitler, head of the most bitterly nationalist faction Germany has produced since the war, openly hoped that the hour of his triumph had come. He hat been denouncing every phase of international co-operation and preaching repudiation of every German obligation to other States. Had he got his way, there would have been an immediate renunciation of the Versailles Treaty, the Young Plan, the Briand-Kellogg Pact, and even of Germany's membership in the League of Nations. As a result, the whole situation in Europe would have altered tragically. His compact with other restless political parties, some of them less rabidly national than his own, boded ill for Germany, as it was apparent that they were content to let him indulge wildly aggressivo aims. Dr. Bruening, it will be recalled, regarded the challenge to his Government as crucial, meeting it with a decision "to concentrate the instruments of force against all tendencies threatening the State." This rendered the political breach incapable of healing, and accounts for the tense atmosphere in which the Reichstag vote was taken and the storm of cheers that greeted the Government's decisive victory. The revolutionaries' challenge has not been silenced, but they have lost the parliamentary battle and must expect that the Chancellor's decision to take steps to quell their campaign of disturbance in the country will be given effect. These measures they may resist, but the Government's strength is such, as declared by this vote, that they will be allowed little opportunity to continue their mutinous intrigue.