Still in Power but Without the Two-Thirds Majority Desired: Dr. Rauschnigg Flees the City outcome of the election Danzig, Apr. 8. yesterday for the new Diet of the Free State of Danzig has caused keen disappointment in Nazi circles as they failed to obtain the desired two-thirds According to the final figures, the Nazis won 44 seats, or 60 per cent of the seats in the Diet, which is less than the two-thirds majority required for making constitutional changes.
The figure means an increase of only four Nazi seats in Parliament.
Dr. Rauschning, who was the Nazi President of Danzig from July, 1933, till he resigned in 1934, fled from the city to-day, presumably to Poland.
It is understood that the Nazis hold him as a traitor to the party.
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, in a speech on Saturday, declared that the Nazis need not pay attention to a man like Dr. Rauschning, who had already "committed moral suicide, Seats In the Diet: Old New Social Democrats 13, Centre Communists 3 2 Poles 2 2 German Nation 3
Although all the forces of the German propaganda machine worked In their favour, the Nazis failed to achieve their objective. Had they succeeded In obtaining a two-thirds majority, which would have—given them a virtual dictatorship over the affairs of Danzig, it would have en= led them, in the name of the Diet, to petition the League of Nations to change the Constitution of the] Free State, 'Walle the votes were being counted, the Polish Government's represen ative in Danzig complained of the "existence of terrorism during th flection which, ihe contended, was therefore unlawful. Among' the Leading German speakers sent here to. back the Nazi cause were Herr Rudolf Hess, the Reichsfihrer's deputy; Herr Buerckel Germany's representative in the Saa Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, Prime Minister of Prussia, and Reich Minister of Avia" tion, resplendent in the uniform of his new post, General of Flyers.—Reuter.
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