The Archive · 1932

Defiance of Herr Hitler

Berlin, Jan. 23.

The German Government is determined to remain in office and not to make way for Herr Adolph Hitler, the leader of the National Socialists. [Epis is indicated in the reply sent to-day by the Chancellor, Bruening, to the recent communi of Herr Hitler, who declared that he could not agree to the Govment's proposal to extend the term Jof office of President von Hindenburg by "unconstitutional means," namely, by the vote of the Reichstag, instead' of the peopl Dr. Bruening, in his reply to Herr Hitler, says that if the Nazis were ito come into power, they would have to pursue the same course as lehar followed by the present Gov-Jernment, whose only object rescue Jereat distress. The Chancellor de-flares that the present state of affairs is due mainly to the Treaty of Versailles—Reuter,

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