Dr. Briining's Fight
The political manoeuvres inspired by the coming Presidential election in Germany leave the Chancellor still with the best cards in his hand. His first. plan, to secure the necessary two-thirds majority in the Reichstag for a measure prolonging the President's present term of office, • has broken down because the Nationalists and National Socialists have withheld their -support, and the necessary vote could therefore not be secured. Herr Hitler hesitated for some time, and finally declared him- self with none of the ebullience Herr Hugenberg, like some other newspaper magnates who toy with politics, affects. A prominent Hitlerite, Dr. Frick, has declared that if the Bruning Cabinet is still in office on nomination day a Nazi candidate will be put into the field -against Hindenburg. That statement has been promptly repudiated, but it raises the question of what the authentic- voice of Hitlerism is. There are certainly divisions in its ranks, and a wider split still between Hitler and Hugenberg, the Nazi leader's inferior in all respects except declamation. The President -will not consent to stand unless the demand for his re-election .is general, but it looks as if one way or the other Dr. Bruning will manage to hold his own.
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