Evening star., 1933-02-02
Communist Meeting Places
Invaded in Move to
Halt Disorders.
CHANCELLOR is FACING
FUTURE WITH GREAT HOPE
Newspaper Charges Reported Ban
on Rallies Was Ordered to
Curb Campaigning.
By the Associated Press.

four days chancellor Of Germany, chal-
lenged his countrymen today to cruelty
me or do anything else to me If at
the end Of four years we have not sue
ceeded:'
The other side had things all their
own way for IA years." he told a group
Of newspaper men in his first press
conference as chancellor. Look at the
result"
GIVE US four years-that's the legal
period of a Reichstag-and then let the
country sit in judgment"
BY order of Hitler police invaded
Communist meeting places and in some
cases the homes of suspected Com
munists today seizing papers and ar
resting their owners in an effort to put
an end to disorders which have cost
nearly dozen lives since the Nazi chief
| became head of the government.
While the raids were going on the
chancellor, accompanied by Wilhelm
Frick. his minister of the interior. ap-
peared before the Reichsrat, Upper
House OF Parliament shook hands with
each member and spoke from the
presidential dais.
Faces Future With Hope.
1T required great faith in our Nation
for me to take over the government in
I face the future with great hope.
Il am strengthened and you must
be strengthened by three great charac-
teristics of our people-our Industrious
ness, our capacity and genius which
has carried us through difficult times
and by the fact that despite all adver-
sites We still have our own German
soil
If past generations drew strength
from that soil to constitute this great
nation, We can do likewise"
The tense situation in Germany
reached a climax with Hitler's an
nouncement of two four-year plans Of
national regeneration-for the saliva
ton" of the farmer and the worker:
The Telegraphen-Union Press Asso-
citation heard that orders were issued to
Prussian police to prevent Communist
demonstrations during the election
campaign.
The National Communist newspaper
Rote Fahne said the ban was invoked
to curb election campaigning. The
Communists held one-sixth of the seats
in the Reichstag, which was dissolved
yesterday.
Confident Of Victory.
Hitler was confident of victory after
his cabinet, in which Nationalists far
outnumbered his party colleagues. per-
suaded President Won Hindenburg to
permit the new elections.
The chancellor's nationwide appeal
last night for "four-year chance" in
which he attacked the Republican par
ties, met with stormy response. The
Social Democratic organ Vorwaerts
scathingly criticized the speech, de-
claring his 'four-year plan is a new
catchword borrowed from Stalin." 1t
concluded, addressing Hitler, with the
demand: Out with you
Other newspapers were silent on Hit
ler's reiteration of his often-pro-
claimed remedies for the country. The
Nationalist papers welcomed the elec-
ton, on the ground that it was the first
time clear line has been drawn be-
tween the Rightist parties and the
"Bolshevists."
Despite a plea of self-defense. Her
mann Goering, Naz member of the
Hitler cabinet and commissioner for
the Prussian ministry of interior, sus-
pended three Homburg, Prussia, police
men for shooting and killing three per-
sons when attacked by mob.
More Than Score Slain.
Yesterdays deaths due to disorders,
mostly between Communists and Nazis,
reached seven. A woman was killed in
DuiSburg shooting affray at midnight
Communists, Republicans and Nazis
were injured in Berlin, Altoona and
ChemnitZ fights. At Bochum, Prussia,
the Nazis demolished a Socialist news
papers rooms.
Tne Nazi chieftain spoke only in gen.
eral terms of his two four-year plans.
The idea of compulsory labor service
and farm colonies constitutes the main
pillars OF this program" he said, de-
Scribing one as the salvation of the
German farmer. to safeguard the ma
tion'S possibilities of sustenance and
hence her very life" and the other the
salvation of the German worker
through colossal and comprehensive
attack on unemployment"
He appealed for Divine guidance fol
the men called to head the new gov
ernment and asked the nation to with
mold Judgment for four years.
Defense Demands Toned Down.
His old campaign demands for build
ing up the national defense were toned
down In a declaration reaff1rming the
stand OF previous cabinets for jurdical
equality with other nations in arms.
However great our love for our
army, we, nevertheless, would be happy
If the world, by limiting its armaments
would never again necesSitate our in
creasing our own weapons" he said.
Concluding a bitter attack on Com
munism, the chancellor asserted that
Christianity would be the basis of Ger
manys moral conceptions. He declared
the family would be firmly protected.
More than IA years have passed
since the fatal day when the German
people, blinded by inward and outward
promises. forgot the honor and liberty
those days of treachery the Almighty
has withdrawn his blessings from us,
he said.
I'm deep distress millions Of German
men and women of all classes see the
unity Of the nation sink and dissolve
into a welter of political-egotistica
opinions, interests and disparities oi
outlook Germany has been presenting
since the revolution a picture Of heart
breaking dismemberment.
Says Marxism Failed.
Beginning with the family and ther
continuing through all concepts oi
honor and loyalty, people and Father
land, culture and economics, and finally
touching even the eternal foundations
of our morals and faith-there is moth
ing that escaped this merely negative
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