Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-08
relationship in Germany.

Faced by q rising tide of Fascist
and Communist discomfort. Germany
Is proceeding to fight 1t out on a new
Hindenburg line. Invoking the eI-
treme powers vested In HIM under
Article 4S OF the Reich constitution,
President Won Hindenburg, sturdy war
rior- statesman, yesterday issued a seriss
Of emergency DEGREES which clo,he HIM
with far-reaehing and semi-dictatorial
authority
In countless directions private rights
are set aside and governmental iuris-
diction is extended into domains tradi-
tionally immune from oficial Interior
ence. Imagine In our own country
? decree from Washington illegalizing
any salary in excess Of $500 a
year which an employer has con-
tracted to pay an employe! A presi-
Dental ukase to that effect is only one
Of the drastic recourses to which the
German government is resorting for
the purpose Of imposing economy upon
the country and thwarting the forces
convenes next week. The Reich con-
fronts a crisis and manifestly does not
intend to trine with 1t.
To meet the impending onslaught in
new formation, the Bruening cabinet
has submitted its resignation, but Pres
ident Won Hindenburg forthwith in
trusted the chancellor with the task of
building another ministry. DR.. Brue-
ming, whose bulldog courage weathered
ceaseless Fascist Nationalist Communist
attack during its year and O half OF
uphill night for economy, financial re-
form and international Cancellation,
evidently consented to embark upon a
new lease of ONCE only If caparisoned
with . widened constitutional mandate
TO curb the elements of disruption.
As the HitleritesS and other foes Of
the existing order have given plenty
OF evidence of their readiness to stop
1t nothing, 20 the expanded Hinden-
burg Bruening regime Is now equipped
to 80 the limit. Broadly interpreted,
the government Is given power to
abrogate even such fundamentals as
the inviolabilfty Of the person, the home
and the mails. II may, and presum-
ably forthwith will, reduce unemploy-
ment doles, decrease higher pensions
hale tax shirkers into extraordinary
courts, summarily suppress anti govern
Ment political activities, including clubs
or printing establishments maintained
for their propagation: require citizens
under penalty to inform on such ac-
tivities, lower the capitalization of COM
Msrcial concerns to meet changed con-
diticns. restrict Withdrawals from saw
ings banks and suspend construction of
administrative buildings for three years
Chancellor Bruening has not yet Sc
lected his new cabinet Dr. Curtius,
his former foreign secretary, will be
missing from 1t, having been tossed to
the wolves As sscrificial offering for
the Reich's humiliation in the sorry
Ansehluss business. Bruening an
nounces that personal status and ca
pacity, rather than party afdliation,
will be the test for inclusion in the
new ministry Of emergency and saliva
ton. 1t has been suggested that for
strategic purposes, representatives of
the Hitherto National Socialists and the
Hugenberg Nationalists might be in
vited into the reorganized government.
They can hardly buy their way into at
the cost Of any concessions by Hinden-
burg and Bruening that would COM
promise the governments program for
sanity. economy and order in Germany
and the sanctity Of her external obli-
Hations.