THE REICH OPENED

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1932, Page 6

THE REICH OPENED

,;r ADDRESS BY “MAD GLARA.”

NAZI ELECTED AS SPEAKER.

(United; Press Association—By Electric (Telegraph—Copyright >

(Received this dav at 1 5 p.tn.> BERLIN, August 30.

“1 would like to demand the impeachment of 1 President Hindenburg, hut it wou'ldf, be useless, because it would be like the devil to bis grandmother,” said “Red Clara” Letkin in' her opening address in the Reichstag. Frau Lctkin was so feeble that she had to be carried to the speaker’s chair ...by two women Communists. As she mounted the rostrum the Communists greeted her with shouts of “Red Front,” clenching their fists in the Communist salute.

Two hundred arid thirty Nazis ignored the demonstration ns Hitler had ordered, that they must set' an example Oi discipline, gild give the Chancellor no excuse for enforcing Hindenburg’s dissolution decree.

Letkiri spoke-for forty-five minutes, slowly with difficulty, frequently'pausing to wipe til'd perspiration from her forehead. i T.A * She ‘ denounced- the Government n« the tool: of the.; capitalists, and demanded its.'overthrew and impeachment for violating the. Constitution. She hoped to live to opeiOKe German Soviet con-

grass,. - -" . .. Thor House- dished with fngid once; arid prided to elect as speaker a. Nazi, ; Herman Geering, aged thirty-, nine, a dasliirigjiyiator during the war. He coinjmandedb.‘Baron Riehthb en s squadron in was also Hitler’s right-hand nuiiriiiC Munich in 1923 when be was wounded" rind fled abroad. Wheni the of the election was known, the rose in a body, shouting “Awake, Germany! Hail, Hitler!” As 'Lctkin totteringly descended the steps, the Communists cried, “Hail, Moscow!” . v, The ■Reichstag, adjourned to allow -the speaker arid deputy-speaker' to interview Hindenburg.

The; newspaper “Vorwaeftz” has been suppressed for three days for desciibjflg- the Government’s ' economic programme as “a programme of constitution breakers.” -

Emergency decrees dealing with the economic programme are being is&fted next week. Hindenburg signed b. ’’document,, leaving blank the dates Empowering . Papen, to dissolve the Reichstag if it demands the annulment of thie iold on pew emergency decrees, of attempts ; ; to counteract his or the Government’.s domestic policy.