“times” Wonders if Bruening’s Relinquishment of Control is Final: “manchester Guardian” Believes Bru

Dr. Bruening’s resignation is the subject of editorial articles to-day in all the London papers. His relinquishment of control-if indeed it becomes final-the “Time” editorial says, may have the gravest consequences for the internal stability of Germany.

It had been apparent for some time, it proceeds, that Dr. Bruening was being forced farther to the Right in internal affairs than was congenial to him.

It will be a European misfortune, the “Times” says, if this defiant and purely negative attitude of the Hitleristed becomes the settled policy of the country. It does not appear from our Berlin message this morning, it adds, that the opponents of Dr. Bruening have indeed formed any policy to put in place of that of the fallen leader. All that can be said at the moment is that a period of political uncertainty seems likely to ensue, with a tendency for the Socialists to recede into the background and the parties of the Right to become more powerful.

POSSIBILITY OF CIVIL WAR?

As for civil war, the “Manchester Guardian” says in its editorial, it has long been latent in Germany in the sense that the population has long been violently divided, and a Nazi dictatorship as such might lead to its outbreak on a large scale.

Perhaps the most likely immediate outcome of the fall of the Bruening Government, it goes on, is the formation of a Government of the Right calling itself National which will be tolerated in the Reichstag until after the Lausanne Conference, when-say in August-a general election will take place, with the strong possibility of an absolute Nazi majority being returned.

It is even possible, it suggests, that Dr. Bruening may be asked to take office again. Those who have brought about his downfall, including the President, are by no means happy about the results of their work.

There are two possibilities in Germany that cannot be left out of account, the “Manchester Guardian” concludes, a failure to form any stable Government during the next few weeks and so an inevitable postponement of the Lausanne Conference, and an outbreak of civil war. A stable Government of the Right will have to make terms with the Nazis, and their terms are likely to be stiff. They will demand key positions in the Cabinet, and it is not certain that even a Nationalist Chancellor would be prepared wholly to satisfy them in this respect.

On Sunday the decisive Nazi victory in the Oldenburg Election removed any lingering doubt about the Nazis being the strongest part in Germany, the “Daily Telegraph” editorial, headed “Germany’s drift to Hitlerism”, says declaring that the situation is drifting rapidly into the hands of those who represent-in the jargon of Hitlerism-“the national will to resist”.

GERMANY MAY ENTRUST HER DESTINY FOR A TIME TO PARTY MAKING VAGUE IF PLAUSIBLE PROMISES: BUT SOONER OR LATER THERE MUST BE RETURN TO BRUENING POLICY: NAZIS UNLIKELY TO SHOULDER LONG UNPOPULARITY ASSOCIATED WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR GOVERNMENT POLICY

The “Daily Mail” reports that after Hitler’s interview with President Hindenburg “it is possible that he may be asked to form a Government”.

It may be, the News Chronicle” writes, that Germany weary of strain-will entrust her destinies for a time to a party which has been attracting the discontented to its banner by vague, if plausible, promises. But that sooner or later there must be a return to the policy of Bruening there can be no doubt-if Germany is to live.

The Nazis themselves probably do not wish to take office at the moment, the “Morning Post” suggests. It is highly improbable that they will long shoulder the unpopularity, associated with responsibility for government policy in the present juncture without securing the opportunity to dig themselves into administrative positions of power.