GERMAN POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1932, Page 5

GERMAN POLITICS

REICH ELECTIONS FUTURE IS VERY UNCERTAIN. (United Press Association—By Electric) Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, ‘September 12. Tire future is now more obscur e than ever. The new Reichstag elections are due to be held in sixty .days’ time, and,,,good observers. see little likelihood of ,any Party. • but the Communists ■.©curing gains. -, -u y’ , Only exceptional ■reasons would caus 6 a. .postponement of' the elections, but the Government has not excluded th s pos ibility. It is believed that the Government’s present economic scheme will effect an improvement in trade before the election. Outside observers, however, consider that the political uncertainty may wreck these hopes. Some authorities consider that Chancellor Yon Papen has scored an initial success in the 'election campaign, as the 'Reichstag practically justified the Government’s d’ssolution of it by their refusal to accept President Von Hm-detoui-g’s economic proposal. j Captain Von Papen’s real difficulty, however, is the absence of any political organisation for an appeal to the electorate, . , . Meanwhile, German authority 1,3 in the hands qf dictators, who M’e relying on President Hindenburgs prestige and on the bayonets of fh ft hundred thousand soldiery of the German Republic. The air cleared quickly on Captain Yon Papen’s intimation that measures w-ere being taken to prevent the 'Reichstag re-assembling. Herr Goermg cancelled the summons for to-mp,rr o w, perhaps because, the Socialists announced a boycotting of the meeting. The Standing Orders Committee was convened to discuss the position. The Nazis are now threatening to test the legality of the dissolution in the Stiprem© Court, but Cabinet is P l ’ e ' paring for the elections on November 13, in which the; Government, spokesman tips .that the Nazis will experience a setback.