Berlin, Apr. 1.
The parliamentary débyt of the new Government was bat brief and was acco! by. Communist lo the parties of maintained a dise erect silence and the groups behind the Goxernment applauded the ministerial declaration, The House, the public and diplomatic galleries were crowded when Dr. Bruening, the new Chancellor of the Reich, mounted the rostrum and read the declara+ tion which was short and was, moreover, vaguely worded on pure Pose s0 as to enable the Nation alists to vote for the now Cabinet, The Chancellor started his address with the emphatic statement that the present Government was a Inst attempt to solve in. the present Reichstag the urgent and vital problems with which the Reich found itself confronted, Hereafter, the Chancellor pleads ed the Reichstag should allow for an "organic development of the present foreign policy." Dr. Bruening continued that he was conscious of the fact that the rehabilitation of the Reich could only be completed in peaceful ce-operation with all other nations and he pledged' the Cabinet to loyal fulfillment. the Reich's international obliga tions. The Chanectloy also dwelt at some length on the acute dis tress in the domestic situation which, he said, could only remedied by stimulating, economic progress, and adding the warning, that the new Government was resolved to ward of all throats against Law and order by resorting to every constitutional measure possible. Finally he declared. that the last Government's financial programme would be carried out and that the: Government would, moreover, soon cichstag a program ing economies in all public departments by rationalization and ro-trenchment. With regard to catas. (sophie situation of agriculture and the migration of the rural yopula~ tion to the cities, the declaration announced a special agrarian programme, after which the Chancellor reiterated the Government's doter= mination to act quickly, efficiently, and effectively, and. in the event of an adverse majority, to dissolve the Reichstag and to carry out the Cabinet's programme by adminis. trative measures under special powers conferred upon it by, President von Hindenbi 'The Reichstag, immediate loration, adjourned until to-for the debate on the declaration and ta vote on the Socialists' motion of lack of cow fidence, Bruening Cabinet's First Victory:
Apr 3.
The Bruening Cabinet has wea thered its first storm when the Reichstag with 253 votes against 187 defeated the Socialists' motion. of lack of confidence. The Nationly for the Government after their leader Herr Hugenberg had previously announc-a lo party's decision to that f-feet. This announcement great uproar in the ranks of the The reason for Hugenberg's suilden change of mind is believed to be the fear that he might lose great number of his followers if he attempted to coerce his party into fon to the Bruening Cabinet.
obvious that his change of attitude will be construed by many: as a sign of indecision and bound to harm his prestige still further.
The press generally welcomes this positive result of a two days? parliamentary battle and expresses the hope that the Chancellor will make the most of his opportunity to straighten out the tangled affairs. of domestic finance. The Radical organs, however, of the Right aa well as the Left' con the Government who: far from being Ovean Kuo Min.
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