The big Hitlerist victory in the Parliamentary elections in the State of Hesse have revived the talk that was current in political circles recently about the formation of a Coalition Central Government, including Hitlerist representatives.
Notwithstanding the recent declaration by Dean Kaas, the Chairman of the Centre (Catholic) Party, that his Party would never work together in a Coalition Government with the Hitlerists, endorsed by Dr. Bruening, the present Premier, who is Chairman of the Parliamentary Centre Party, and affirmed in a formal resolution adopted by the Party Council, it is now suggested that the Coalition Government will probably be headed by a Centre Party leader, Dr. Adam Stegerwald, Minister of Labour in the present Government, head of the Christian (Catholic) Trade Unions, and one of the two Vice-Chairmen of the Centre Party.
The Left and Democratic press appeal to-day to Dr. Bruening to stop at his post and not to sacrifice the majority of the people to the Nazi minority. By means of social reforms and a powerful moral campaign of enlightenment, they say, it will be possible to dam the Nazi flood, by showing the people how futile and empty of results is the “miracle-mongering” propaganda of the Hitlerists, who are misleading the voters by promising them all sorts of things that can never be carried out.
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