POLITICAL CRISIS OCCURS IN GERMANY.
PRESIDENT USES HIS DICTATORIAL POWERS. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, December 2. President Ilindenburg has signed a decree promulgating the finance measures for which the Chancellor, Dr Bruning, found it impossible to obtain a Parliamentary majority. Opponents of the measures regard the action as dictatorial. The legal, Republican Constitution, however, provides that a decree must be tabled in the Reichstag and cannot be modified, but must be accepted or rejected. Should the decree be rejected, the President must withdraw it, which is out of the question, or the Reichstag must dissolve.
President Ilindenburg and Dr Bruning, in risking a hostile vote, rely upon the fear that other political parties have of the Hitler Group, and the realisation that defeat will endanger parliamentary government and render a Fascist dictatorship possible.
Cabinet sat for eleven hours before coming to the decision to appeal to President Ilindenburg. The decree covers twenty-six laws, Forming a three years’ programme of financial and economic reforms.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19243, 3 December 1930, Page 1
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