Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-24
Americans Believe Protest
Is Behind German BallOting

| Fascists a warning that parliamentary
rule by majority is in serious danger;
that unless they can lay aside their
factional feuds they must abandon
hope of great influence in directing the
affairs of Germany"
The Oklahoma City Times, analysing
the political complexion of the Reichs-
tag. says: The Fascist group, with LOT
seats. has risen to second rank among
the numerous parties through which
Germans express political preference.
Socialists hold the most seats, LAB. while
the Communists are third with rs, the
CentriStS, So, with the remainder scat
tered among the lesser parties, as Diff
ferent as German Nationalist and the
Peasants party. Control. whichever
way It goes, must be through coali-
tton," concludes this paper.
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Reviewing the situation and the fact
that in the last Parliament the task of
getting teamwork appeared hopeless"
the Atlanta Journal suggests that now,
lin the face of the new and graver peril,
they may think less Of partisan coIiten-
tons and more of their country's needs.
Already there are limitations that the
Socialists and Centrists will come to a
functioning agreement. This would
provide potent nucleus against Fascist
Communications aggressions, as
serts the Journal. which sees "all Eu-
rope and America as well deeply con-
cerned in the working out of this prob
lem, which involves nothing less than
the preservation of all that has been
done during the last 10 years to settle
the issue, heal the wounds and repair
the losses of the Great War"
An international aspect was given the
recent election by the fact that during
the campaign the Fascists demanded
immediate union with Austria. annul-
ment of the treaties of Versailles and
ST, German and the abrogation of the
Young plan" points out the Younqs-
town Daily indicator. However. this
paper goes on to say that since the
election Hitler, whose oratory and an
peals to popular discomfort built up the
Fascist party, is strangely silent 1t Is
one thing, ne finds, to make promises
and another to try to carry them out,
Evidently they are sobered by their sur
prlslng strength and will be more con-
serVatlve In practice than they were In
theory" concludes the Vindicator.
Although recognizing that Tin case
OF an impaSse in Parliament a dictator
ship is the only thing left" the Wheel
Ing Intelligencer thinks it "inconceiv-
able that the. German people, remem-
perlng what happened TO them under
the Hohenzollerns, would stand for
Fascist dictator, as 1t is inconceiyable
that they would have Communist one
with the spectacle of Russia staring
them in the face. The dictator would
nave TO be moderate" 1t declares
Explaining the election, the Little
ROCK Arkansas Democrat says: "Moti-
waited by this feeling of economic de-
SPAR, the German people have fallen
easy prey to Fascist and Communist
promises, wild-eyed though those prom
lses have been. They sought some one
TO blame for their shrinking larders and
quite naturally they chose the existing
government" The New Orleans Times
Plcayune states that some see deem
significance in the fact that Adolf Hitler,
now one OF the outstanding leaders OF
German Fascism, is not a German At
an put an Austrian, thus forming an
other potential threat of pan-Cerman-
ISM, which cannot be lost sight Of by
Germanys recent foes.' And the ST.
Louis Times concludes It's editorial on
the election with the words. "On the
whole, students of world politics And
Germany's situation the most INTEREST,"
ing, potentially, of all the national
ana international subjects spread across
the map of Europe"