WIPES OUT
LAST VESTIGE
OF DEMOCRACY
ing With Military
Precision
German Reichstag controlled by
Adolf Hitler in his political career
of 11 years meets tomorrow to hear
Hitler outline the government pol-
icy he intends to carry out for four
years without its aid.
The Reichstag is expected to
move swiftly toawrd the goal he
has set wiping out the last ves-
tiges of democracy in germany by
ending its own existence for the
allotted four years, or at least as
long as he remains chancellor.
It is almost an absolute certainty
that the enabling act drawn up by
Hitler, giving himself dictatorial
powers for that period, and com-
pletely setting aside the present
Republican constitution, will be
approved.
his new Reichstag, like nine other
that assembled since the war, was
the methodical and rapdi manner
in which it carried out the pro-
gram of the Hitler leadership yes-
terday. The regimented Nazi
brown shirts, in a comfortable
majority, with the communists
barred from taking their seats,
completed its organization in nine
minutes and completed its first
business session in 25 minutes.
The speech making there and at
the ceremonial opening in the im-
perial garrison church at Potsdam
earlier in the day was left to the
designated leaders of the govern-
ment and the venerable president
Paul Von Hindenburg.
The Reichstag functioned with
military precision. The socialist
bloc of 125 members sat at the ex-
treme left in the later afternoon
session, and abstained from voting
for the Nazi and Nationalist offi-
cers elected including Capt. Her-
mann Goering, who was re-named
president.
(The allied Nazis and National-
ists have a total of 340 votes, and
with 81 communists barred, the
Reichstag membership is reduced
to 501. This the government
parties have more than the neces-
sary two-thirds to pass the enab-
ling act.)
The new act also will give the
Hitler government the power to
sign foreign treaties without sanc-
tion of the Reichstag or the
Reichsrat, the state council.