4 OCTOBER 1930, Page 1

One can only hope that this vision of international dishonour

and domestic slaughter, remote and dim though it may be, will be a warning to those decent Germans who voted for the Nazi policy merely as a stinging reminder' to their ordinary political leaders who have been more intent upon party 'squabbles -than upon the common good. Amid all these threatening

tides .-President von Hindenburg has stood as solid as a :Jock. On Tuesday. he announced that unless the Cabinet's thoroughgoing scheme of economy was accepted

without alteration he would sanction the suspension of the Reichstag, for six monthS. Herr Hitler's organ instantly came out with a threat of impeachment. "The German Constitution," says the paper—the reference to the Constitution as an authority is delightful in this context—" has an article providing for the indict- ment of the President. We warn him not to bolster up bankrupt politicians against the will of the people."