“hail Hitler” and “perish Judea” Cries Raised when New German Government Appointed: Demonstrations a

Cries of “Hail Hitler” and Perish Judea.” were raised in the Berlin streets to-day when the appointment of the new Government in succession to the Bruening Ministry was announced. Hitlerists demonstrated in the streets, and fighting occurred in the principal streets. The police used revolvers and cudgels to disperse the demonstrators.

President Hindenburg’s appointment as Premier of Herr von Papen, a member of the Catholic Centre Party, who has been known for some time, however, to be out of sympathy with the official policy of his Party, which Dr. Bruening represented, and to favour a dictatorship with Hitlerist participation, is regarded by the press as paving the way for a Hitlerist regime. The Papen Cabinet is considered to be only a stop gap Ministry, which will hold office until fresh elections are held in August, when it is assumed that the Hitlerists will obtain an independent majority, and will take control.

There is talk of summoning a National Assembly, to change the Weimar Constitution, which the Hitlerists denounce as responsible with the Versailles Treaty and the “International Jews” for all Germany’s difficulties.

The Weimar Constitution, which is largely the work of a Jew, the late Professor Hugo Preuss, who was Minister of the Interior at the time, was adopted on August 11th., 1919 by the National Assembly of that year, which also appointed the first President of that year, which also appointed the first President of the Republic, the late President Ebert, a leader of the Social Democratic Party.

General von Schleicher, who was responsible for the dismissal of General Groener, the Minister of the Interior and Defence, because he suppressed the Hitlerist storm troops and who urged Dr. Bruening to admit the Hitlerists into his Government, has been appointed Minister of Defence in the von Papen Government. One of his first actions is expected to be the lifting of the ban on the Hitlerist storm troops.

It is believed that Dr. Schacht, the former President of the Reichsbank, who recently joined the united Hitler-Hugenberg front, will be reappointed to his old post.

The London press comment to-day is that the new development in Germany shows that “Hitler dominates the situation and that his advent to power is inevitable”.

Although Herr von Papen may be the next Chancellor, Germany’s chaotic political situation is entirely dominated to-night by Adolf Hitler, the “News Chronicle” says, and without his support no new Government will survive defeat at its first appearance in the Reichstag. Hitler’s eventual arrival in office is now held to be inevitable.

“NEW GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE NO OTHER IMMEDIATE TASK THAN TO SEND REICHSTAG HOME AND ORDER NEW ELECTIONS”: THE HITLERIST VIEW

The only Parliamentary basis that seems possible for the Government now taking shape would be the support of all parties from the Centre to the Nazis, the “Times” says. It would be farcical if a new Government should support itself on the votes of the Socialists, now that Dr. Bruening has been overthrown for his “Marxist associations”. The Nazis, however, looking back on progress at successive State elections, will support such a Government only if promised the dissolution of the Reichstag-two years before its allotted span-and new elections. This at least is what most people believe Herr Hitler to have told the President in the long interview which followed the short one with the Socialist leaders yesterday afternoon, and it tallies with Dr. Goebbels’s statement in the Nazi “Angriff” to-day that a new Government will have no other immediate task than to send the Reichstag home, order elections, raise the restrictions on agitation and demonstration which press so heavily on the “immoderately down-trodden Nazi movement”, and appeal to the country. Dr. Goebbels also thinks that the decree dissolving the “Brown Army” would need to be immediately revoked. The limit of Nazi concession is believed in political circles to be fixed at elections in September. Until then, it is thought, the Nazis might be prepared to support a “transitional Cabinet”.

Some good political observers, the “Times” goes on, do not believe that the President will consent to new elections before the due date in 1934, since in the event of a Nazi victory in an early election his position would become impossible. At the same time it is hard to see how elections are to be avoided if Parliamentary procedure is to be strictly followed.

There is a suggestion, the “Times” says, that the Centre will support a transitional Cabinet only if the Nazis also openly accept co-responsibility for the Lausanne Conference and the unpopular things which still have to be done at home.

It is thought that the Nazis, who owe their success largely to the skill with which they have at once evaded responsibility and convinced the electorate that they are being denied it , will refuse this. The opportunity, and even the necessity, for a “Presidential Government” with extraordinary powers could then be shown; in some well-informed quarters it is thought that this is the most likely outcome from present appearances.