HERR BRUENING

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1932, Page 2

HERR BRUENING

RESIGNS FROM OFFICE.

INTERVIEW WITH HINDENBURG

(.United Press Association—By Electric G Telegraph.—Copyright.)

V BERLIN, May 31. .1 (Doctor Bruening’s last interview y||th President Von Hindenburg must ha»ve been a heart-breaking experience, Those with inside information sfate that never was a - Chancellor dismissed bo ung aciously. When Doctor Bruening said! “1 have come to offer tlie resignation of myself and my colleagues,” President Von Hlnrleilbiii'g implied! "Tkt Is what I expected.’’ ff Doctor f Bryan jug • then departed, tf|thout one word of thanks from the l|eaideut, Hindenburg's political career a strange paradox. He whs made 1 ‘•President by the Monarch- j isits and he consolidated the Republic. : He then was made President by the Republicans, and h 6 immediately favoured the Monarchists. |There is little doubt that the Prggi- j dent retufUbd from • his estate at Neuimclc determined to dismiss Chancellor 1 Bruening. Yon Hindenburg’s time has | lately been spent amonjj his old mill-, •tary : and Junker friends.

POSSIBILITIES IN SITUATION

ANGLO-FRENCH ANXIETY,

LONDON, May 31

To-dav Germany and France are vir.; tually without Governments, while only a mere fortnight, is ahead of the ■Lausajnne 'Reparations Conference, I which, Mr Ramsay MacDonald insists, is faced with oven a bigger problem than debts and reparations, namely, that of falling world trifle. British Continental press are agreed events in Germany are fraught with momentous possibilities. | The British Cabinet meets to-day. j

The Prime Minister. Mr Ramsay JVJacDonaid, iV reported to be deeply concerned, and he is eager to return to London earlier, while France is anxiou-ly awaiting developments.

PRESTDE’vT'.'J ALTERNATIVES

WILL THERE BE A D!SSOLUT T OX ?

TON DON. Wav 31

President Vcn Hindenburg has now ■three courses ope i to u: m. One is the formation of a now Cabinet on a Parliamentary basin. The prospects of this, however, are considered slender. 'Secondly there could be. the rstah'Miment of a virtual dictatorship, independent <jj|. the Reichstag, but it is known fhH P’-vidont Hindcibui’u prefers constitutional procedure. Thirdly, be could jjappoin* a transitio'u:,! Cabinet, which would dissolve the EjqjfrJbstag and t a General F.lecf mu’.’ The adopMn of this third alternative is regardtfrff at pren n nt, being cur. I tain to result in ,a Government based on a Nazi-Nationalist majority.

ATTITUDE OF AMERICA

NOT GOING TO LA USA XXI

WASHINGTON. May 30. The U.S. State Department has made it clear tha+ the United States has not been invited tin* ' nnc tions Conference, and will not attend, if invited. Tho “Now York Times’’ Wasldng-

ton correspondent states: “Th e resignation of. the Bruening Cabinet at Berlin to-day is regarded as a great complication. It Mr MacDomld's proposal that the Lausanne Reparations Conference should be converted into one of world trade. In the absence' of any official communication from Mr -Mellon (U.S.A. Ambassador), no Administration statement has Been issued, and the 'officials have declined to comment directly. “However,” there, appeared to be a prospect that the United States would participate in such a conference, if proper safeguards were forthcoming. At the saule time, it is realised that the Government ar e keenly interested in seeing the European Governments settle their OwnvpjsoWtins 5..-i>factor-ily.

‘‘Aleanwhiib, it is reiterated that the United State's Government has no intention of joining in any debt conference, it being im\jtont on keeping a free hand in such matters.’'

CHANCELLOR AND POLITICS,

POLICY OF BRUENING

Dr Bruening took office on March 30, 1330. He has led Germany through the most grave financial crisis that any European Power has ever faced, this administration having to be supported by drastic measures and emergency decrees under the President’s authority, creating a virtual dictatorship. His policy has been directed towards the goal of conciliation abroad and the fulfilment of obligations, but the, loss of trade .and the world-wide fall in price's, combined with the growing nationalism of certain sect'oiis of the community at home, have rendered normal methods of government almost impossible. Conference after conference has been

held with the other great Powers, in /which the readily forthcoming ’sympathy of Britain has been effectively countered by the obduracy of France and the aloofness of the United States. It is claimed that armaments are the root -of the trouble. France has maintained her traditional policy of 'security, and the United States lias defined to afford relief without a considerable ro-

duction of expenditure on armament'-, while Germany demands armaments equality with t,h e other nations of Europe, which is denied by the Treaty of Versa ides.. The deadweight of reparation payments, also, has served to cripple. Germany’s finances and industry, I and her unemployment, as stated in the cables, is enormous. I Germany in the hand: of a military j or nationalist dictatorship may well have the gravest repercussions in Furop e and the world, loading to the further post- j ponoment, or, cvc.i eanc.-'latioii, of Ml I wav debt payment's, and to th ( . urgent ' necessity of the closest, unity within the British F.mp’ro.