PAPEN’S ORDERS

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1932, Page 5

PAPEN’S ORDERS

THE DEADLOCK IN PRUSSIA

THREAT of dictatorship RUMOURS ALARM THE SOUTH RESENTMENT OF PEASANTS DISCUSSION OF MONARCHY By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m. Berlin, June 8. Herr Von Papon is making a determined attempt to break the Prussian deadlock. He informed the Nazi president of the Diet that a new Premier must quickly be elected. If a majority is not obtainable for any candidate it is expected Herr von Papen will disregard the constitution and appoint a Reich commissioner to administer Prus-

The suggestion of a dictatorship in Prussia has alarmed the South German States. Bavaria especially fears a Reich encroachment. The leader of the Bavarian Peasants’ Party, Dr. Hein, addressing a peasants’ congress, declared that the States must defend their rights. He added amid applause that he was convinced that a monarchy must soon be restored.

Socialist meetings at Berlin and other cities are angrily attacking “the Government of Barons,” particularly for its industrial conscription proposals, by ■which the unemployed will be obliged to work for pocket money.

“GHOSTS OF THE DEAD PAST.”

FIERCE ELECTION EXPECTED.

London, June 2.

The election to follow the dissolution of the Reichstag will be the fiercest everheld in Germany, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail. The Nazis will undoubtedly emerge by far the largest party, and expect to form a Government, but the new Chancellor, Herr von Papen, has not the slightest idea of handing over to Herr Hitler.

The Manchester Guardian’s Berlin correspondent states that, tho Centre Party having proclaimed its contempt of the von Papen Cabinet, it has become clearer than ever that the Cabinet represents nothing but a tiny clique of Junkers and militarists. Most of its members arc like ghosts of a dead past. The Chancellor, receiving foreign journalists, said that the Cabinet was the result of the President’s wish that there should be a “synthesis of all the potentialities of the German soul.” This left the journalists mystified. The President has written to the exChancellor, Dr. Bruening, expressing pain at their separation after two years’ co-operation, and thanking him for his unselfish devotion to duty.