Evening star., 1932-08-01
HITLER is HALTED
IN GERMAN VOTING
Alliance With Bruening Con-
sidered Chief Hope of
Ruling Reichstag.
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equally three ways, the Communists ran
| a close second in Greater Berlin. The
vote here Yves: NaZis, 754,668 Commu-
nists, 721 ,252; Socialists. 72l097. With
a combined vote of l l,442,349 for the
Socialists and Communists, the capital
remained overwhelmingly MarXist.
The day itself was peaceful after the
bloody riots which preceded it for a
month, costing the lives of about 125
! persons.
Alliance Is Discussed.
Much significance was attached to
DR.. Bruening's final campaign address
at the Sportspalast here last Friday
night. when he turned his guns on Al
fred Iugenberg. the Nationalist leader
but Jared Hitler. If combination be-
tween the Nazis and the Catholic Cen
tristS could be effected, it would give
them 325 seats, majority sufficient to
maintain control of the Reichstag. per-
haps for four years, barring eXtraor-
binary events.
1t would probably mean the return
of Bruening to power, not as chancel-
lor but as foreign minister. with the
chancellorship going to more neutral
personality, such as DR.. Franz Bracht,
lord mayor of Essen and now virtual
dictator of Prussia under Chancellor
Won Papen.
There was also speculation as to
whether this combination might not
dare to outlaw the Communist party.
Chancellor Won Papen previously hesi-
tated at the suggestion, but it was
thought the Nazis' natural hate of the
Communists and the Catholics opposi-
ton to the Reds Goddess campaign
against religion" might form common
cause for the two forces.
Newspaper comment on the result of
the election showed the moderateS and
leftiStS jubilant over the fact that the
right parties failed to win a majority
of the Reichstag seats. All agreed the
Hitler movement had reached its peak.
Most of the papers viewed with Skep-
ticism the possibility of coalition OF
tie Nazis and Centrists. The Zowelf
Uhr Blatt said. however, that unless
such a coalition is formed the life OF the
new Reichstag will be short.
The Socialist paper VorwaertS took
the losses of its party philosophically.
finding consolation in the fact that IL
gained over the basis of the previous
Prussian diet elections.
Tire Communist, Montag Morgen, re-
ferring to Communist successes, SAID:
.fThis poor party, which had only
slight means at its disposal, ought tc
be surprised over the happy outcome
Hitler Wants Leadership.
Hitler's own press at Munich declared
the NaZis were indiSputably entitled
to assume the leadership CT the govern
ment.
/ Some dopesters pointed out today
! that the shreWd, undemonStratlve Vor
Schleicher had outWitted Hitler anc
that the latter was finding he had pei
on the wrong horse.
When the Bruening cabinet was
ousted by President Won Hindenbure
on MAY 80, Won Schleicher frankly tolo
the then minister of finance and vice
chancellor, Herman Dietrich, that tins
new cabinet would remain in office FOL
at least four years. The indication TO-
day was that he meant what ne SAID
Hitler in May seemed so certain OF a
clear majority in the elections that ne
preferred not to accept representa-
ton in the new cabinet or to shoulder
responsibility. That was apparently
what Won Schleicher wanted.
When Chancellor Won Papen hao
himself appointed commissioner for
/ Prussia on July 20 he appointed Gs his
deputy, in actual control of Germany's
largest state, Dr. Bracht, Corserva-
tive Centrist instead of a Nazi.
Won Schleicher and Won Papen, as
partial price for Hitler's support, re-
| instated his outlawed storm troops, per
mitted the wearing of uniforms and
| turned the streets over to the Nazls fol
demonstrations. When riots became the
order of the day, however, they did moi
! hesitate to persuade President Won Hin
! denburg to issue a decree forbidding
/ open-air meetings. This measure hit
the Nazis quite as hard as any of the
other parties.