The Archive · 1929

Street Warfare Berlin

A Complaint Which Sounds Like the Former Harbin Berlin, Feb, 24.

The German Nation People's Party in the Prussian Diet tabled a. vote of non-confidenc> against the Minister of the Interior connection with the recent a sassination of a member of the factionary association "Steel helmet" jin a Berlin suburb by, it is alleged, 'a member of the "Red Frostfighters "Association." The Nationalist press [alleges that insufficient yglice-mea~ ares are being taken against the Red street-terror whereas the papers of the Left point out that So far many more outrages have [been perpetrated by members of the reactionary groups than by the adherents of the Left and that furthest more the police always had success fully protected the processions of the "Steel helmets" in spite of the fact that this organization has al ways been ina very small minority.

mpared with the Republican or Communist counter-demonstrators.

No Dictatorship, sensation was caused prospects of a dictatorship in Ger: many. Whatever turn events may ko, he writes, the idea of establishing a dictatorship in Germany feannot and need not be seriously entertained. Methods of govern-tly, Spain or Lithuania are impossible in Germany. No dictatorship could, as its supporters would Tike to make us believe, spirit away the consequences of the lost war oF: could bring relief overnight to the pitiable state of German agricul ture. On the other hand the dietaworship would disenfranchise the workers, the employees and the Cficials of all those rights which the Republic has bestowed upon them. Therefore, all the Republican parties should cluster around the banner of the Republic and be ready to assume their responsibilities. towards the welfare of the country.—Kuo Wireless.

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