GERMAN PRESIDENCY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21099, 5 February 1932, Page 9

GERMAN PRESIDENCY.

HINDENBURG'S POPULARITY. NOMINATION ASSURED. fßeceived February 5. 12.25 a.m.) BERLIN*. Feb. 4. Marshal von Hmdenburg's election committee announces that it has secured four times the minimum number of signatures necessary for his nomination for the Presidency. HITLER'S CANDIDATURE. QUESTION OF NATIONALITY. BEELIX. Feb. 3. Herr Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi?, who was born in Austria, has been naturalised as a German citizen, which would make him eligible to become a candidate for the Presidency. It has been revealed, however, that the Fascist Minister of-the Interior in Thuringia. in July, 1350, secretly apfiointed Herr Hitler commissioner of the local gendarmerie, thus mailing him a German citizen. As foreigners are debarred from holding office in Germany two officials secretly signed the naturalisation document. Herr Hnler soon resigned and did not receive any pay. The present non-Fascist Thuringian Government disclosed these facts to the Berlin Cabinet, whose legal advisers are examining the document with a view to contesting its legality. Herr Hitler has instructed an ex-gen-eral, Herr von Epp, aDd an ex-colonei, Herr Haselmeyer, to proceed to Geneva to watch the altitude of the German delegation at the Disarmament Conference.