GERMAN POLITICS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17872, 31 August 1932, Page 7

GERMAN POLITICS

UNCERTAIN SITUATION ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT DICTATORSHIP SUGGESTED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received August 31, noon; BERLIN, Aug. 50. Herr von Papen’s acting-Prussian Government was severely snubbed by the Prussian Diet instructing all Prussian officials not to enter the Chamber, cloak rooms, or lobbies unless specially authorised. Herr Branch, the deputy commissioner of Prussia, and other leading Ministers declined to appear in the Diet, intimating that Marshal von Hindenburg had appointed them, and therefore, that they were not responsible to the Diet.

The Government’s economic programme has caused a lively rise in prices on the Bourse. The bigness and boldness of the scheme by which the Government, as with a wave of the hand, proposes to produce over two milliard marks, and demobilise' one-third of the army of unemployed, appeals to public imagination, which would sooner see a gallant gamble tliaii inaction. The Government believes that a turn in the tide of the crisis lias come, and considers that the psychological moment has arrived for a bold effort to revive confidence, stimulate industry and combat unemployment. The Nazi organ, Volkischer Beobachter bitterly attacks Herr von Papen ancl says that if Cabinet dissolves the Reichstag in order to enable it to continue governing, it will establish a purely military dictatorship, based on bayonets w'ithout the support of the smallest section of the people.