Evening star., 1932-11-28
SCHLE|CHER BEGINS
LOB OF ORGANIZING
GERMAN MINISTRY
"PoWer" Behind Present
Junker Cabinet Interviews
Party Leaders.
FREE HAND IN STRESS
OF WINTER is SOUGHT
Won Papen Likely to Be Renamed
if General Fails to Obtain
Sufficient Support.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 28-Gen. Kurt
Won Schleicher, the power" behind the
present Junker cabinet. moved among
the leaders OF the various parties today
seeking their pledge of liberation for
government headed by him.
The defense minister of Chancellor
Franz Won Papen spent his time
through the week end trying to find
out what conditions each party would
impose for support. He appeared to
be seeking a wide basis for govern
ment that would give him a compare
lively free hand during the stress Of
the Winter.
In the event Gen. Won Schleicher is
not satisfied with the measure of Par
liamentary support he Is promised.
President Won Hindenburg was repre-
sented as ready to consider Chancellor
Won Papen again. The chancellor and
his cabinet are now serving temporarily,
having resigned last week.
Four Immediate Tasks Faced.
1t was considered likely that the
President would not only rename the
chancellor, but would empower him If
necessary to dissolve the Reichstag as
he has done twice before this year.
Thus was the Reichstag placed on
the twin horns Of dilemma-either
to accept Won Schleicher and adjourn
for several months, or be dissolved by
Won Papen.
Four immediate major tasks await
the new Reichstag summoned to meet
on December 6, If it escapes dissolu-
ton. The new legislative chamber was
elected ON November 6.
The first Is its attitude toward q
cabinet Should Won Papen be the
chief, vote of non-confidence is sure
to be brought in by the Nazis and the
Communists, If not also by the Social
lists and Centrists, and is almost GER
tain of adoption
The next major question Is that Of
constitutional reform and revision. The
recent Won Papen cabinet gave solemn
assurance that the various federated
states will be heard before the govern
ment's draft Is presented, but even as
Stunning that the States approve the
draft and register this approval through
their delegates by two-thirds majority
in the Reichsrat, or Federal Council,
there is still hard road ahead to
travel before the new draft finds the
approval OF the constitutionally pre-
scribed two-thirds ma ajority of a Reich
stag session at which two-thirds of the
members are present.
Lausanne Agreement Is Third.
A third question is that of ratifica-
ton of the Lausanne agreement on
reparations made last July. Before
voting on 1t Reichstag members will
want to know more about what hap
pened behind the scenes at Lausanne.
They will want to know just what is
the status of future payments and just
what Is Germany's position with ref
erencc to the gentlemen's agreement
adopted between France and England.
For this purpose, executive and hence
confidential sessions of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs no doubt will be
held.
Finally. there is the far-reaching
problem Of Germany's finances and of
her budget. AS a number of German
writers recently have pointed out, prob
ably nobody knows except the minister
Of finance, Count Won Schwerin- -Krosick,
exactly where Germany stands with
reference to her income and outgo.
roI IloIlluS germany mas HVed from
hand to mouth and the Reichstag will
1t is generally expected, want to make
use of its fundamental right of con-
trolling the budget at least for the five
months still remaining of the budget
year, as well as to work over, prune and
adopt a budget for 1933-34.
All this depends, however, upon
whether the Reichstag will be given a
chance to continue its existence after
the initial skirmishes about the cabinet
have been decided
For more than half year Germany
has been without national legislative
assembly.