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...Hammer Blows!" Smoldering behind national discontent with the von Papen-von Hindenburg decrees was of course the issue of states' rights which flamed up when Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria defied President von Hindenburg's decree authorizing Adolf Hitler's 400,000 "Storm Troops" to put on their brown uniforms again and make public appearance (TIME, June 20). Last week Herr Hitler stormed into the presence of Baron von Gayl, demanded that Dr. Held be restrained from interfering with Fascists in Bavaria. Experts on the German Constitution meanwhile opined that no German state has the right to override President...
Baron von Gayl, impaled on the horns of this constitutional dilemma, soothed Herr Hitler as best he could, then called a meeting of his Ministry of Interior of all the Ministers of Interior of all the German states. "I cannot implore you too strongly," cried Baron von Gayl, "to bring the regulations of your states as soon as possible into harmony with our federal policy on this most important, most vital matter...
...Ministers of Interior trooped home without committing themselves, Fascist fury began to show itself openly for the first time against Chancellor von Papen and his "Cabinet of Monocles," hitherto tolerated as better than the BrÜning Cabinet (TIME, June 13). "This Government," exploded Der Angriff, Berlin organ of Herr Hitler, "has nothing to do with the Fascist Party! It has out-BrÜninged BrÜning in issuing oppressive decrees. These last are hammer blows on the backs of a starving people...
...first Vice President of the Diet, agreed last week to the pop ping into that post of a Nationalist. Herr Wolfgang von Kries, tolerably acceptable to the Fascists. In logic there was "no sense" to this arrangement, but as a practical compromise it cleared the Prussian air. Herr Hitler seemed to assume that on July 31 his Fascists will score such a smashing victory nationally that opposition in the Prussian Diet will have to give way, thus ushering in a Fascist Premier of Prussia which is nearly two-thirds of Germany...
Paying no attention to Dr. Held, President von Hindenburg lifted the ban on Storm Troops last week throughout Germany. In Munich several thousand Storm Troopers put on brand new brown uniforms, paraded toward the residence of Dr. Held. "Hail Hitler!" they chanted. "Germany Awake...