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While Beuthen, where sentence of death was passed on five Nazi terrorists, is quiet and Adolph Hitler is heaping invective and defiance upon the von Papen regime, the government yesterday issued a manifesto making it clear that it will use armed forces against any party resisting its decrees.

The manifesto asserts that the death decree, issued to curb the terrorists, will be applied impartially and that its application will not be deterred by threats against the government.

“The government will, if necessary, employ all the resources of the state in order to carry out the measures of the law on a non-partisan basis, and will not permit any party to flaunt its decrees,” says the manifesto.

“The passionate reproaches which have been publicly raised against these sentences should be directed against the authors of the bloody deeds and not against the state authorities which must take sharp measures in the interests of the common welfare. The government will know how to meet any attempt to falsify the principles of the state law and to incite political passions to renewed excesses.”

This is the government’s reply to the challenge of the Nazis and their threats that “there will be no quiet in Germany until the Beuthen judgment has been annulled. May those who are responsible for the conduct of the government realize the seriousness of the hour before it is too late.”

The government’s manifesto is met by Adolph Hitler with a second proclamation in which he justified his refusal to enter the cabinet and threatens the end of the present regime.

The Hitler declaration says:

“My German comrades, those of you who have a flair for battle for honor and liberty of the nation will understand how and why I have refused to enter this bourgeois government. Justice Herr von Papen will condemn thousands of National Socialists to death. Did they think to cover this provocative procedure with my name? The gentlemen deceived themselves.

“Herr von Papen, your bloody objective I now perceive. I desire victory for national Germany and the extermination of its Marxist destroyers, but I will never be the executioner of fighters for the national liberty of the German people. With this deed, our attitude toward this ‘national cabinet’ is defined. Heaven may send us torture after torture, but our movement in the end will finish this government of hangmen.”