How often Captain von Papen will summon the Reichstag, and
how far he will deign to consult it, remains to be seen. Dr. Bruning was less and less able to let it govern, and the new rulers of Germany have not even the desire to let it interfere. The Nazis and the Nationalists together do not hold half the seats, and no clear party policy would prevail even in a genuinely governing Reichstag, certainly not on the questions that Captain von Papen proposes to raise, electoral reform and changes in the constitution of Weimar. Herr Hitler has worked 'up a pugnacious spirit in a nation which is by nature orderly. It has not done much violence in the last few days except in East Prussia. 'There in the capital, Konigsberg, on Monday, many Communists and Socialists were "beaten up," presumably by Nazis or their hangers-on, and several were killed. * .*
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