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...year ago exactly Herr Bruning came to power comparatively unknown (TIME, April 7, 1930) except as a protege of old Paul von Hindenburg. Last week he stood at the German zenith. He had just put through an unpopular budget against hot opposition, ahead of time. He had forced the niggling Reichstag to dissolve until October. And he had fashioned a sharp spit on which to cook the goose of Adolf Hitler, "the pocket Mussolini...
...fall of his Cabinet would mean dissolution of the Reichstag. This, with the brownshirt star then so definitely in the ascendant, would mean Fascist gains and Socialist losses. Upon reflection, the Socialists decided to support hated Herr Bruning "temporarily." Month by month he has slowly consolidated that support. The budget was the test...
...budget passed last week is a great budget. It incorporates most of the retrenchments, many of the reforms which Germany has delayed adopting for years. But the budget is also a Hindenburg budget. It provides loans and relief for the farmers of East Prussia, that "hard luck province" cut off from the rest of Germany by the Polish Corridor which enjoys the particular sympathy of Old Paul, himself a Prussian...
Finally the budget provides for building a second super-cruiser like the famed Ertsatz Prcussen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). As pacifists, the Socialists stomached this hateful appropriation only when Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich consented to find the money by doubling the German surtax, i.e. poor Socialist workmen who naturally pay no surtax (a luxury of the rich) will not pay one pfennig toward the new war boat...
...final budget ballot the Bruning Cabinet triumphed by the overwhelming vote of 227 to 64. Almost weepy with relief, Herr Dietrich exclaimed...