The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-08

connecting deal with Hitler,
at the generals home.
But Hitler had to qucll OPP
position in his own party
ranks from Nazi subordi-
mates, who were dissatisfied
with their chiefs clandestine
alliance with Won Schleicher,
leader of the army reaction
aries.
Hitler moved with his customary
speed. When Ebert Krebs, editor
of the Nazi Hamburger Tageblatt.
published an attack on Won Schlei-
cher. Hitler promptly expelled the
editor from the Nazi party Mean
while. Won Schleichcr had perfected
a confidential accord with Hitler
including the following provisions:
First. the reichstag was TO be dis
solved and general elections held.
Promised Important Posts
Second. the Nazis would be given
important posts in the Won Papen
ministry. although Minister of Dc
tense Won Schleicher. Foreign Min
lister Baron Won Ncurath and Min
lister OF Interior Baron Won Gayl
would retain their posts in a re-
modelled cabinet.
Third, the Won Papen cabinet
would remove the ban on HitlerS
brown shirt army and restore il 10
legal existence. but the brown shirts
would drop the role of Hitler's pri-
vate army" and be enrolled in gov
eminent service under the guise OF
labor battalions.
Fourth. Hitler would be granted
the utmost freedom to use his effec-
tive propaganda during the cam
paign for the July 81 election in
which the Nazis hope to win control
of the reichstag. but he promised
to be moderate toward the Junkers'
cabinet and to concentrate against
the Socialist and Catholic parties
A member Of the recently ousted
Bruening cabinet told the CORE
spondent that one Of the pieces Of
bait that Won Schleicher dangled
before Hitler was the prospect Of
President Won Hindenburg's reSig-
nation in the autumn and the sub
sequent elevation 10 Hitler to the
presidency.
Hitler Free to Act
The disbanding OF the reichstag
before that body reconvened not
only saved the Won Papen ministry
the pain Of parliamentary de-
feat, but saved Hitler the necessity
Of voting in support Of a junker
cabinet. Now Hitler may stump
the country without being publicly
identified with the feudal ministry
which, he is confident. will share
occupancy Of future governmental
seats with his own FaSciSts.
With this lineup evolved in Sc
cret conferences and apparently
destined to work well in the cleo
ton campaign. the decisive crisis
Will come after the election. with
the ell-established sharing of the
Spoils
Hitler, dependent on his success
at the polls may demand more
than the army leaders and the
landowners in the cabinet may want
to concede. If 10 comes to a show
down. which Won Schleicher will do
his utmost to avoid. the sympathy
Of officers and troops Of the reichs-
wehr for the Nazis will make the
use Of the army against the brown
shirts hazardous.
Hitler will have a difficult prob
lem Of his own in curling the OPP
position Of many Of his 100000 /
followers to NaA coalition with
junkers regime.
He Can Deny support
As long as Hitler's collaboration /
with the Won Papen-Von Schleicher
cabinet Is screened. he will be able I
10 deny publicly that he is support I
ing the government. but II he de- I
cides 10 share in the government. he (
may face the first serious dis \
affection in his own ranks.
Hitler's followers have a hatred I
for democracy, parliamentariSm, 4
and bolShevism, and an allegiance 4
TO dictatorship and military pre- I
paredneSs in common with the +.
iunker rulers, but there their mutual
ideals cease abruptly.
Hitler'S enormous movement rep .
resentS the revolt Of the disposseSsed +
classes not only against democracy
but against capitalism. while the
new government Is popularity con-
Sidered the militant vanguard Of
few thousand agricultural and in
dustrial capitalists n the midst Of
a pauperized Germany
The deSertion OF at least 100000
Communists to the Nazi banner had
a radical influence on the Socialist
faction OF Hitler's supporters. Part
Of the masses Of middle class work
ers and farmers enrolled in Hitler
ism. regard the Won Papen cabinet
as the symbol Of their enemies.
But Hitler may be prophetic in
assuming that the average German
yearns so desperately for a change
Of government that he is even ready
to fall in line with a Nazi alliance
with the Prussian junkerS.