GERMAN POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1931, Page 5

GERMAN POLITICS

REICHSTAG CONVOCATION.

BRUENING TO FIGHT PREVENTION i United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.; BERLIN, December 9.

The next development will he Chancellor Bruening’s fight to prevent the convocation of the Reichstag which practically all of the parties are demanding.

The Socialists, however, although opposed to the wage reductions, are apparently prepared to continue to tolerate the Government. If the Economic Peasants’ Parties join in the demand, the Reichstug must be summoned immediately, when there will be the possibility of a noconfidence vote against Chancellor Bruening, thus resulting in a dissolution with elections, or in a HitlerBruening dictatorship. However, it is believed the Reichstag’s House Committee, which is meeting next week, will reject the convocation demand by a small majority. Chancellor Bruening is at present negotiating with the Socialists and others, and be is hopeful of reconciling them with the Government’B standpoint. Chancellor Bruening has made a vigorous declaration against Herr Hitler, which has struck the popular imagination as being a proof that President Yon Hiudenburg is fully hacking Chancellor Bruening. It is generally expected that Herr Hitler will now lie low for some months. Hitler’s stahlhelms show consternation at the Chancellor's banning of their uniforms, which has resulted in tlieir taking an appeal to President Von Hiudenburg not to resign the Decroe as the prohibition, they say, woaild hit hardest the military and loyalist Germans, and would destroy the. Nation’s fighting spirit and the old ' field greys. The Reichstag has now lowered its ratej from eight to seven per cent.