The Prussian Elections
Profound uncertainty -Prevails to the last moment regarding the Prussian elections, which will be decided on Sunday. The National Socialists, on the basis of their Presidential vote, seem bound to strengthen their position enormously. There are seven Nazis in the Landtag to-day and there will without doubt be well over a hundred by Tuesday. The National Socialists, indeed, can hardly fail to be the largest party in the Diet, but it seems unlikely that even with the Hugehberg Nationalists they will be able to command a complete majority. Neither, almost 'certainly, will the existent. Weimar coalition of Social Democrats, Centre and People's Party. The balance will be held by the small right-centre groups like the Economic Party, who are not expected to vote Hitlerite in the Diet. The Com- munists will form part of no constructive combination. The outgoing Government have just carried a resolution making a clear majority of votes in the Chamber necessary for the election of a new Prime Minister and hope in that way to keep Herr Hitler out of office. In such a ease Dr. Braun will carry on, and though he may have. no majority, and will therefore find legislation blocked, he will still have the administrative machine in his hands. That would be a manifestly unsatisfactory result, but it is about the best that can be hOped for.
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