The danger of an overthrow of the Bruening Government in the Reichstag, which appeared likely as a result of the union of the Nationalist Opposition at the Harzburg Conference last week, has been averted by the action of the 23 Deputies of the Economic Party, who, although though their spokesman explained that their sympathies are still largely with the Nationalist Opposition, cast their votes, however, against the Nationalist motion of “no confidence”, with the result that the Government, representing the forces of stability, has obtained a majority of 25.
After the vote the Reichstag adjourned till February 24th., and it is generally believed that the crisis is now over. Some anxiety is still caused, nevertheless, by talk in the Nationalist press about action outside Parliament, suggesting an attempt at an armed rising. The Government is understood, however, to be prepared for any developments in this direction.
It is noteworthy, as coming after the Harzburg Nationalist Conference, where, it has been pointed out, none of the speakers touched on the question of Jews or antisemitism, that Hitler’s manifesto published in all the Hitlerist papers on the eve of the voting in the Reichstag, denouncing the policy of the present regime, is devoted almost exclusively to the reparations and Young Plan questions, and again makes no mention of the Jewish question or of antisemitism.
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