The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press staff Correspondent

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BERLIN. June 9.-Ascent to pow
or Of Adolph Hitler and his Fas-
cists, the natural course of history
in modern Germany, was delayed
by the influence of army leaders
and Prussian junkers over President
Won Hindenburg.
When Hindenburg dismissed
Chancellor Heinrich Bruening. he
responded to the mood of the ma
ton. But installation of the cab
met headed by Lieutenant Colonel
Franz Won Papen was the result OF
backstairs intrigue.
Every straw in the political wind
for the last two years had pointed
to a sullen, and then furious, pop
ular demand for scrapping of the
parliamentary democracy under
which Germany had been ruled
since Kaiser Wilhelm was driven
from the throne.
Growth Of Hitlerism from small
cult of fanatical Fascists to a move
ment encompassing four of every
ten Germans was the political ex-
preston Of the attitude of the aver
age citizen, 'life can not be harder,
so the system Of government must
be changed" Hindenburg con-
tinued to represent the popular
will, but the Bruening government
lost its foothold.
Pinned Faith on Dictator
With the country's business,
finance, farming and industry head
ed toward disaster millions of
youths facing black future turned
away from a pink" democracy and
pinned their faith to white" die
tatorship.
Hitler's propaganda machine bat
tered Breuning's emergency DEGREES,
which continually increased taxes
while the nation was tightening its
belt to the last notch Hitler har-
messed torrent Of popular discon-
tent to his windmill and won 49,
600 900 voters.
After ousting Bruening linden
burg would have echoed the popu-
lar cry if he entrusted the govern
ment to Hitler. But at this point
the wire-pulling of the army lead
ers and land owners delayed, if not
frustrated, the natural course OF
history.
General Kurt Won Schleicher,
dominant figure in the new cabinet,
was unwilling TO deliver the army
to Hitler mercy not only because it
would cost many officers thier Jobs
but would give Hitler exclusive
power in Germany.
Spun Web of Intrigue
The big landowners, who can not
pronounce Socialism" without hiss
ing, opposed letting the Nazis gov
ern until Hitler drops Socialistic
catchwords such as the recent dec
laration in the reichstag by the
Fascist leader Gregor Strasser,
"Ninety-fve per cent of the Ger
man people are imbued with anti
capitalistic yearning."
Schleicher, the junker, and Otto
Meisner, secretary of the state and
the presidents closest adviser, spun
the web of intrigue around the aged
field marshal, whose lifelong tradi-
lions made him susceptible to their
scheme for a junkers' cabinet
During his first presidential term
of seven years, Hindenburg with
stood the whispered counsels of his
wartime cronies and the agrarian
nobility, of which Streseman and
Bruening used to complain. But
Hindenburg's policy estranged him
from his old friends, who even OPP
posed his candidacy in the last pres
1dential election.
Himself the proprietor of large
estate at Neudeck, which has lately
been drain on his private finances,
the presidents sympathy for the
distress of the other big land own
ers was easily aroused.
Cabinet Not Popular
Meisner, accompanied by several
junkers, visited the president during
his recent SiXteen-day vacation at
Neudeck and perfected Schleicher's
plan. They alienated Hindenburg
from Bruening and induced the
president to deliver the government
to the feudal barons. Schleicher,
a lifetime friend of Won Papen and
his classmate at the Berlin Cadets
school, recommended the choice of
his friend as chancellor
Though the Won Papen cabinet
was formed on Hitler's Suffrance, it
far from expresses popular senti-
ment. The masses behind Hitler
recall that while taxation was
bleeding them white, the govern
ment, under the guise of farm re-
lief directly or indirectly diverted
an estimated one billion dollars
into the junkers' pockets and
shielded their inSolvent estates
against auctioneering.
This has not endeared the Junk
ers' rule to the Germans whose
hopes were aroused when the
Bruening cabinet fell.