Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-15
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Germsny's Black Sunday.


fort only in Rome and disuuiet in the
rest of the world For Fascism. mas
ouerading under the title of National
Socialism won a landslide victory.
Adolph Hitler, alien leader of the Ger
man Black Shirts, did not capture
control of the Reichstag, but, together
with the Communists, the extreme rad
zeal forces will have 176 seats out of a
total of 43o-odd parliamentary places,
The Fascists rolled up close to $780,
900 votes compared to the paltry So0,-
600 they polled in 1928 They now hold
lo1 seats as against IL in the preceding
Reichstag Hitler, though ineligible
himself to sit in Parliament because
Of his Austrian citizenship, has become
overnight one of the most powerful
figures in the Reich. The author Of
the notorious Munich "Putsch" of
1923-the frustrated plot against the
young German Republic. fomented with
the aid of Ludendor2-has marched
Ear in seven years,
Yesterday, from eve-yy standpoint,
was thus a black Sunday for faction
F.1G=z germany. The Hindenburg-
Bruening government, which risked q
general election for vindication of
its constitutional powers. is not over
thrown. But it has given the malcon-
tent population of the Reich an oppor-
tunity to express mistrust in, and Bit
f,k. t.a
been making so honest and so effec-
tive bid for German reconstruction
on sound lines and for rehabilitation
Of the Reichs international position.
Early indications portend that Chan
cellor Bruening will be able to rebuild
his coalition cabinet and govern, this
time with the indispensable aid of the
Socialists, who refrsined from partici-
patton in the first Bruening admins
tration. How long or effectively it will
govern is another question. The So
cialist remains, after yesterdays cyclone,
the individually strongest party in the
Reichstag. but the Fascist-Communist
phalanx henceforward will be an Ugly
thorn IN the side of whatever sort of
a cabinet attempts to conduct German
affairs at home and abroad.
The Social Democrats polled 1928, 1885
votes, but the Fascists and the Com
munists between them smassed some
thing more than 10,5OO,00O. The Bour-
geois parties of the Center and Right,
hitherto the bulwark of the linden
burg Bruening government, ran hope
lessly behind. The Peoples party of
the lamented Stresemann, which, nu-
merically slender in the Reichstag, was
influential because of its leaders, pres
tige, is reduced TO virtual impotence.
Stresemann's successor at the foreign
ONCE. DR.. Curtius, was reelected to
the Reichstag, but his power in the
Wilhelmstrasse promises to be OF pre-
carious tenure and strophied influence
The world will await with deep anx-
iety the true inwardness of the eruption
in German politics which the Fascist
Communist upward swing denotes. In
France the result is already analysed
rs z triumph for the elements of re
venge" The Hitlerites and their Com
munist adherents, to say nothing of the
Hugenberg Extreme Nationalist, are
unblushing apostles of the program
which calls for disruption of the treaty
OF Versailles; disavowal of the Young
plan, recovery of Germsny's war-lost
colonies and other provocative inter
national policies. They oppose any idea
Of European federation. They espouse
reactionary naturalization schemes for
German labor and industry. They
openly advocate the dictatorship, la
Mussolini.
Doubtless world unrest due to globe
vsa economic distress and depression
pz-cd its role when Germany marched
10 The polls. The first-voter clement
flaming youths said to have pumped
almost en- bloc for the blind redicalism
typifed by Fascism and Communism.
The republic at Berlin still lives. But
that It's life is menaced by the amazing
developments of the past twsnty-four
hours is impossible to question.
There was one feature of the German
polling which deserves attention-and
emulation - in the United States.
Roundly, 90 per cent of the country's
enfranchised electorate of 37500,000
exercised the priceless privilege of suf-
frage. 1t will be interesting TO observe
how that splendid record matches with
what the enfranchised portion Of the
A..4oo,. ,Dao,,Io will do II, Nover,har