The Archive · 1932

Blamed. for Present Troubles

The decision by a Silesian court to hang. five National-Socialists for ety fre seen Sele meade" the" tecasion by" the: Nest leader, Herr Hitler, to make a Miolont aileck "onthe German Government, "Amazing scenes were witnessed at. the trial court, where the Nazi made a determined attempt to for-ably liberate the five condemned men and' were only checked after the police had fired warning shots.

The Government is placed in a very delicate situation, as it is faced with the alternative of commuting the sentences and thus nullifying the recent Emergency Decrees or courting internal upheavals on the part of the Nazi masses.

Berlin, Aug, 23.

Hitler festo Aug. 26.

The Nazi plan to secure a re-trial by the Legal Committee of the Diet, Of the five condemned Nazis at Beuthen (sentenced to death for the murder of a communist) has been thwarted by the Prussian Minister of Justice.

The Minister refused permission to the committee to make the investigations on the grounds that, such action would conflict with the }constitutionally-guaranteed indepen-Jdence of the Judges and also that, the matter lies outside the committee's "competence, Aug. 27.

Rumours are becoming more in-{tensive that an agreement Has been reached between the Centre Party and the Nazis after protracted negotiations, If this does materialise it will mean a fundamental change in the: Political outlook in Germany with 8 safe majority for the government spon, your bloody yin the Reichstag and doesn't exist forme. ance of parliamentary government. suited to become the executioner of It remove any reason for the Datriote fighters for freedom." 1 dissolution of the Reichstag.

Sou' think f will stand for this you A new cabinet with the Nazi leader Herr Strasser as Chancellor "xfeaven may send us torture on Dr. Bruening as Foreign torture but ne movertent will be ter and General von Schleicher able fo cape with thie guillotine gore 8 Minister of Defence and the In-Tndignation in Government clrsles for, has already been canvassed, it is reported, over Hitler's outburst and over the Provoking. language. of the: Nazi Aug. 29, ross iz Fefected ina manifesto speech broadcast from Neumunster, yesterday, the Chan-Tt declares that the Pros collar, Herr'von Papen, launched. a sian Government "will" not "be bitter attack -on the' Nazis and intimidated. "by political pres stated that the "impulsive reeklessness of Herr Hitler's appeal after message from Cologne says {the Beuthen trial speaks {ll for his that afew" hours after the five schemes as a leader in the govern: Nasis'were sentenced to: death yer terday at Beuthen party of com The Chancellor added that he! uniats attempted to murder a would use force, if necessary, to Navi while he was in bed ay Duls-stamp out the smouldering fires of burg. "They fired ton shots into his bedroom, The Nast Gui rae' andsapores the ever increasing political acts of violence, Dis wife: was wounded of all interfereneg' from the it as my duty to ward] aide." lires communists" were nated In connection with the: outfluence "of political parties with Fage:. Its alleged: that. the' Nazi their mammary", he declared they' attacked" was formerly corns Speaking on the economic issues. Imuniat, hence itis Believed that the he "stated that Germany could rime was an act of revenge for renounce her world-wide cconothem nan" changing is pei mie elations. in favour of n self. ere sufficiency" principle. The Cabinet, Aug. 24, however," favoured "it, he. said, If Herr Hilter secures the defeat

when the new Reichstag assembles the Von "Papen, 'Government far as the supply of the most neces sary food stuffs was concerned: fio Promised a continued moderate re-On' August 30, it is understood ulation of "imports. that the Government will dissolve He said that currency must not the" Reichstag and decree a new. be endangered, there must. be "m9 electorist law, with the ald devaluation ofthe reichsmark, and Article 48 of "the Constitution, there must be no interference' with Jalsing the ago of voters and hus private enterprise. Measures for bhat-heads "among "the 'Nazis' and jopriving a large number of youn, the rehabilitation of Germany, he declared, would consist in the exten. comnnnunists of their votes, sion "of "public. works, including The Government. will then invite rural and suburban settlements, and the "electors to. choate ® national secondly. the revival of private infneibiy which willie" Changed dustry in order to absorb the swith" the task of framing "a new employed.

Gonstitution' to. include an Upper farr von Papen stated that 190, Ghamber besides the Reichstag and }000,000 marks can go for public elected by. single-member [works and 2,000,000,000 marks "ea Stituencies, and also increasing' be risked" {0 reinvigorate industry President's authority. " Proportio this, he said, the Reichsbank Yepresentation would thus be agrees, abolished.

'Meanwhile Herr Luther, presi Qn, such as the turnover tax dent of the Reichsbank, has and others, estimated at' 1,300,000, pressed his determination to oppose 000 marks' for the next year, wil 'Any inflation and adhere to the gold be handed back' to improve the economic life in the form of certi-'The rat special court to be held Bevin under the new emergency fleates on which the tax-payer can row an equivalent amount from. dicjee forsing wih tore the Reichsbank. A further sum of hard labour on 20 years old Com:

lay passed sentence of ten years 700,000,000 wilt "be advanced the those industries that increase the munist who three Nasi witness [number of their employees, {eatifed "they. saw fire three shots ages may be cut toa given Ina polities! clash fu Berlin, minimum. The salaries of "civil 'A Nazi "who was "accused of servants also. being reduced. possessing firearms after the sane These measures have been decreed Bitray was acquitted. }for a period of 12 months, he sai The Nawis sre now blaming. the Jews" for thes present. political roubles." The" Nazi organ "Der ngs to-day pubis arllcte by itary Goetbsls, head

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