GERMAN ALARM

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1933, Page 7

GERMAN ALARM

OVERTHROW OF MINISTRY NATION OPPOSES VON PAPEN PRESIDENT’S PREDICAMENT MAY BE FORCED TO RESIGN BREAK WITH CONSTITUTION By Telegraph—Press Assn.-f-Copyright. Rec. 11.30 p.m. London, Jan. 30. Opinion is growing in Germany that the Nationalists’ negotiations for the formation of a parliamentary Government will fail, forcing president von Hindenburg either to break with the constitution or to resign in favour of Herr Adolf Hitler (leader of the Nazis) or . the ex-Crown Prince, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail. General, von Schleicher’s resignation has thrown the nation into a state of alarm bordering on panic. Almost the whole nation opposes Herr von Papen, who has been asked by the President to form a Government. Newspapers declare a clique of landowners has overthrown General von Schleicher and is now planning a dictatorship. General von Schleicher presented the President with three possibilities: Firstly, a Government supported by a majority in the Reichstag, involving the appointment of Herr Hitler to the, Chancellorship; secondly, a minority Government resting on the “broad stream of popular, support” under Herr Hitler with the toleration of the Right; thirdly, a Presidential Cabinet vested with .extraordinary powers. President Hindenburg asked General Schleicher to await the assembling of the Reichstag on January 30, but General Schleicher refused and resigned. Herr von Papen, acting on behalf qf President Hindenburg, is endeavouring to discover the political possibilities, but he is not forming a Cabinet _ Discussions between the Nazis and'the Nationalists have yielded a compromise, the Centre Party, keeping aloof. Meanwhile the prospect of a Papen Cabinet with dictatorial powers’is alarming the Republicans. ! '