The Archive · 1934

Body Lying in State

Berlin, The remains of Into President von Hindenburg, having been embalmed, are lying in state in. the candle: lighted chapel, improvised for the occasion in the great hall of Neudeck While the special law does not make any specific expression, nevertheless, Nazi Party leaders authori. natively interpret the merging of the Chancellorship and the Presi dency as meaning the life-long. incumbency of Hitler to the office of SReich Fuehrer for the German Heimwehr Faction Holding Four Major Posts Led by Prince von Starhembei as Vice-Chancellor Vienna, July 30. NHE formation of a new "Cabinet of compromise" has averted a fresh crisis and ha brought temporary peace to Vienna.

While the appointment of Dr Kurt Schuschnigg as Chancellor is an undoubted success for the Catholics, it is counter-balanced by the fact that the four most important po: namely, the Vice-Chancellorship and the portfolios of Security, Foreign Affairs and Interior, are by the Heimwehr, whose resi ation of the Chancellorship in favour of Dr. Schuschnigg is not considered permanent.

The latter is a Church adherent and a modera ie, and is less hated by opposition

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