Well-informed political circles state today that the negotiations are favorable to the appointment of Minister of Defense General Kurt von Schleicher as Chancellor with the Nazi leaders Gregor Strasser or Dr. Wilhelm Frick, former Thuringian Minister of Education, as Minister of Interior.
Whether Dr. Heinrich Bruening, former German Chancellor and at that time vigorous opponent of the Nazis, will accept the portfolio of Foreign Minister, is still uncertain.
The headquarters of the Centre party state that Nazi leaders will not insist upon the deprivation of the rights of the Jews, since constitutional changes would require the sanction of two thirds of the membership of the Reichstag.
The Centre headquarters insist that its leaders are determined not to permit religious discrimination.
In the face of the assurances given by President Paul von Hindenburg to the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith that he would not permit any infringement upon the rights of the Jews and this statement by the Centre party that it would oppose discrimination, the Nazis are reiterating their insistent demands that Jews be dismissed from official posts and that they be displaced from their economic fields as well.
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