Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-04
SAYS H|NDENbURG
PLANS TO RETIRE
German Leader Declares He
Will Back HohenzoIIern
to Succeed Him.
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initely the President would retire on
October 2. his 85th birthday. and urge
the election of the Crown Prince as his
successor
The Berliner Volks zeitung. a Demo-
cratic daily. carried dispatch from its
Munich correspondent quoting a per-
sonage described only as "one extremely
important in the formation of future
Bavarian government" as saying sub
tantialy the same thing This uniden-
titled source said such development
would mean the end of Bavaria's in
dependence.
Bavaria Asserts Rights.
When the Welt Am -Sonntag comes
out tomorrow in Munich its leading
port will say:
If Berlin is preparing for a regency
of the Reich nobody can seriously OPP
pose Bavarias claiming a similar right.
That the Bavarlan regent can be
no one but Crown Prince Rupprecht
of Bavaria should no longer be mod
estly concealed. But he must beat the
FohenzollernS to it if the Prussian
yearning for power threatens Bavaria S
independence.
The move to elevate the former Crown
Prince if it developed successfully,
would again put the house of Hohen-
zolern at the head of the German
government.
Official circles denied, however, that
anv such plan was in President Won
Hindenburg's mind.
The Centrist daily Der Deutsche"
said. on the other hand. that Gen.
Kurt Won Schleicher, minister of de-
tense in the new cabinet, met in his
home recently with Adolf Hitler. Ma
tional Socialist chieftain. and the for
mer Crown Prince. and the three agreed
that after the Reichstag elections the
cabinet would be changed slightly to
include several members of Hitler's
party.
Gen Won Schleicher would continue
the dominating force, however, the
newspaper said it was agreed.
It said the NaZis were to be given
the controlling influence in Prussia in
return for support OF Won Schlelcher's
regime in the Reich as a whole.
1t was also learned from a reliable
source that the steel helmet organiza-
ton is ready to supply one of its lead
ers as minister of defense in case
Schleicher should become chancellor
after the Reichstag elections.
Program Announced.
The new cabinet. in public declara-
ton. announced the following political
program:
AT last to obtain for the fatherland.
in peaceful cooperation with other
nations. full equality. political freedom
and the possibility Of economic recov-
cry.
Only Germany that enjoys equal
rights is free and economically healthy
ard will be able to contribute toward
tl,e recovery of the world.
Naturally, all efforts for the we'll
being OF peoples can be successful only
if it is possible at the same time to re-
mcI3 the economic sources of dis
turbonce IN the realm of money and
capital. intercourse and exchange of
goods. which now is causing the worlds
unrest
The reichs government is ready to
co-OTerate in all efforts that serve this
erd."
Declaration Is Brief.
The declaration, one of the briefest
issued by any of the postwar cabinets,
continued:
The foundation for any successful
representation abroad Of our national
interests is inner political clarity
BY dissolution of the Reichstag the
nation must decide uneQuivocally with
what forces it desires to tread the path
of the future
independent of parties, this govern
ment will lead the fight for the spiritual
and economic recovery of the nation.
for the regeneration of the fatherland"
Two-thirds of the declaration were
devoted to a gloomy picture of Ger
many's plight
The German people are in the midst
of spiritual and material crisis with
out parallel" it said. The sacrifices
demanded can be borne only If all the
national forces are united
The German people were further
weakened, it was asserted, by class war
cultural bolshevism and atheistic
Marxism.
To pilot the country through the
coming weeks, the new government ad-
Inits that it is obliged Ito decree part
OF the emergency measures planned by
the late government" but the cabinet
declines at the present juncture to
make any promises. 1t will act. Let 1t
be judged by its deeds"
At noon today the Government pub
lished President Won Hindenburgs
decree dissolving the Reichstag mas
much as according to the elections in
the Diets of the German states it no
longer represents the political will Of
the people"