HOSTILE VOTE

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1930, Page 7

HOSTILE VOTE

[ HINDENBURG LAW OUSTED GERMAN FINANCIAL REFORM ■ '/. ■ ■ ■ . DEADLOCK in REICHSTAG — ■ dangers in dissolution fear of a dictatorship By Teleeraph—Press Assn.— CopyrightRec, 8.30 p.m; Berlin, Dec. 2. President Hindenburg has signed a < e cree promulgating finance measures for which the Chancellor, Dr. Bruening, ias , found.it impossible to obtain a Parliamentary majority. Opponents regard the action as dictatorial though legal. The Republican constitution, however, provides that the decree must be tabled in the Reichstag and cannot bo modified but must be accepted or rejected.. If it is rejected the President must withdraw—which is out of the question —dr.the Reichstag must dissolve. . ' < . " President Hindenburg and Dr. Bruen- ■ . ■ ing in risking a hostile vote relied upon the political parties’ fear of the Hitlerites and the realisation that defeat would endanger parliamentary Government and render a Fascist dictatorship possible. Cabinet sat eleven hours be--1 fore coming to a . decision to appeal to President Hindenburg. The decree, covering 26 laws, forms a three-year programme of financial and economic reforms.’