Thus far there are no Jewish candidates included in the list of the new German Constitutional party for the forthcoming elections to the Reichstag. When the party was formed its leaders gave assurances that it sought equality for all citizens. Democratic circles are also disillusioned because their candidate, Georg Bernhardt, editor of the “Vossiche Zeitung,” has been rejected as a candidate, the Young German League, a constituent element of the Constitutional Party, insisting on a Christian candidate.
In the meantime the aims of the anti-Semitic National Socialists in the event that they obtain control or even the balance of power in the next Reichstag were revealed today by M. Kasche, a friend of Adolph Hitler, National Socialist chieftain, speaking at a conference of the party workers and officials at Ostmark.
He explained that should the National Socialists obtain the balance of power they expect to be able to have a National Socialist named minister of the interior, which means control of police, and a National Socialist as minister of war, which means control of the Reichswehr. They also hope to storm the Reichstag, he said, and force through a law appointing Hitler prime minister and dictator and then to occupy the towns and destroy “the Democratic and Jewish nests.”
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