The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
COMMISSIONED BY
Won H|NDENBURG TO
ASSEMBLE CABINET
Strings Are Attached to Re.
quest, However, BY Aged
German President
HEADS HUGE FASCIST PARTY
Executive Doesn't Want to
Trust Government to Maxi
Leader Alone

Berlin, Nov. President
Won Hindenburg Monday commits.
stoned Adolph Hitler, the Fascist
leader, to formulate cabinet and q
program Of action to meet Germany's
domestic crisis, but there were strings
attached to the request.
Instead of the usual mandate to
form cabinet" Hindenburg gave tho
leader of the nations largest single
party mission to attempt within a
certain limited time to submit q slate
of names and program Of action,
backed by "a majority or almost q
majority" OF the reichstag.
The president was represented by
those close to him as unwilling to
place Germany's fate in FIitler's
hands without attaching strings to
the situation, despite the favorable
meeting between the two most popu-
lar leaders Of the nation Saturday.
This was the outcome of q l5-min-
ute conversation between them Mon
day forenoon, during which the Nazi
declared himself ready to act. It was
said he promised to send a letter to
the president Monday advising him
whether and under what conditions
a government led by Hitler will find
IN the relchstag safe majority do
ing work and united on a common
program of effort"
In other words, Hindenburg gave
the Nazi leader a chance, but q
chance that leading political groups
held to be nearly impossible to turn
to certainty.
1t was pointed out the pivotal par
ties-the Nationalist, the Centrists
and the Bavarians-are possibly will
ing to have the Nazis govern Ger
many. but unwilling to have the NaN
leader dominate the situation.
A government communiuue SAID
Hitler would notify the president Of
his course Immediately, and added:
Herr Hitler was commissioned in
the capacity of leader of the largest
party in the reichstag after he had
declared most emphatically to the
president OF the reich that his party
could cooperate only in government
led by himself"
A spokesman for the Fascist leader
told the Associated Press that this
was the Nazi viewpoint:
Herr Hitler does not feel that he.
as leader of the largest party in Ger
many, should run around begging the
smaller parties for support. We are
quite willing to have men like Kon-
stantin Won Neurath, Count Lutz Won
kroslgk Schwerin and Gen. Kurt
Won Schleicher continue to serve"
one OF his closest associates said lit
is obviously impossible fer Hitler, who
has spent his whole political life in
bitter fight against parliamentary
haggling to try to resurrect q system
which already Is dead. It Is most
likely that he will tell the president
that he is still ready to head an au-
thoritary cabinet, but his reply will be
so conciliatory as to leave open all
doors to negotiations"
Hitler issued statement that he
must consider all the conditions be-
fore replying. It developed then that
there were other strings in addition
to that stipulating support by the
reichstag.
One Of them, 1t was understood,
was stipulation that the Hitler
cabinet must not interfere with the
federal commission government Of
Prussia. This and other conditions,
observers thought, will make it i'm
possible for Hitler to negotiate.