The entire Press here publishes long reports of a speech delivered by the Prime Minister, Dr. Bruening, at Ratibor, during his present official tour in Upper Silesia, in which addressing the representatives of the various municipalities in the Province, he made a slashing attack upon the Hitlerists, describing them as “irresponsible propagandists who have brought Germany to the edge of an abyss”
The speech is generally interpreted as meaning finally the end of the talk that has been going on ever since the Hitlerists obtained their big victory in the Parliamentary elections in Septembes becoming the second largest Party in the Reichstag, that the Government might agree to a working arrangement with them, in which case, the Hitlerists announced, they would demand the key Ministries of the Interior and of War, placing the police and the military under their control.
We have hitherto had reasons of our own for not opposing such propaganda, the Premier said. But now the time has come when we must speak up and open the eyes of the German people concerning these leaders, so that they are seen for what they really are.
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