In reporting that the new von Papen Cabinet has been sworn in and that eneral von Schleicher, who is its driving force, has predicted for it a life of four years after the election, the “Daily Telegraph” says to-day that “it is ##ssprobable that General Schleicher has led Herr Hitler to believe that the revival of the Nazi army will soon be permitted. That, however, is a matter of little consequence, for evidence is accumulating that the General is not for, but against, Herr Hitler.
So long as Schleicher is the dominating influence, it writes, there will be no Fascist march on Berlin. If the “Brown Shirts” are tolerated, it will only be as valuable potential fighters.
The von Papen-Schleicher Government believes, it proceeds, that the Centre Party will gradually come round to a more accommodating mood. These two more malleable elements, they think they will be able to weld into a durable “national” and anti-Socialist Government.
If their calculations prove false and the-Hitlerites are returned to the Reichstag in an absolute majority, or if the Centre Party refuses to coalesce with them in a Cabinet, the suggestion is made that in this event Germany “would be in a position which, from the Parliamentary and constitutional standpoint, would be exceedingly grave”. That, of course, means that the Schleicher dictatorship would become an open instead of a disguised one.
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