GERMAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1932, Page 6

GERMAN AFFAIRS

VON PAPEN’S INTENTIONS. LONDON, August 14. ‘‘T'fiis sounds like the death-knell of Parliamentary Government in Germany,” says the “News-Chronicle,” referring to a pamphlet issued in Berlin on election day and written by Dr Wal. ter Schotte, who has been described as 'H-err von Papon’s Boswell. The pamphlet, based on talks with Herr von Papen and General yon (Schleicher, contains the' plain threat that should the politicians not be reasonable, the Government will treat them as Cromwell did the English Par-' liament nearly 300 years -ago. Herr von Papen says he shares General von Schleicher’s views that . the • Government is not a stop-gap one, and may continue for four years. |t§.. schemes , for -establishing Germany’s.; freedom liland equality cannot be executed by a temporary Government or given a time limit for their fulfilment;:; Herr von Papen hopes for the cooperation of political parties, and willr not allow a hostile combination in tf.rs Reichstag to overthrow him'.

The Berlin 'correspondent of the “News-Chronicle” comments that Herr Hitler, whom the election posters depicted in the irole of Cromwell about to suppress the Reichstag, will find himself in a straitjacket when the Reichstag meets, but if he promises to behave he may be allowed to join the Cabinet. General von hav'-' ing out-manoeuvred Herr Hitler, wi.l now tackle Communism,• and the iron fist will soon fall relentlessly on the party which the- Government regards as outside the Constitution.