24 OCTOBER 1931, Page 2

Dr. Br uning's Reprieve • Dr. Briining's victory in the

Reichstag has given his government- one more reprieve. A majority of 25 on a vote of confidence is small enough, but it serves, and with the Reichstag now in recess till February, anxiety in that particular quarter is removed. But there is grourid enough for anxiety elsewhere. 'The Hitlerites, whose 'Parliamentary representatives marched portentously into the Chamber when one of their party was to speak, and portentously out of it when an opponent rose (their absence unexpectedly enabling the Communists to carry a motion for the suspension of work on the second pocket- battleship) on Sunday staged an immense demonstration in Brunswick, where a Hitler government rules, serious clashes with the Socialists resulting. General Groener, who now significantly combines the offices of Minister of the Interior and Minister of Defence, gives warning that he will repress disorder at any cost, and he may well be called on to make good his words.