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FOES OF DICTATOR THREATEN Nazi and National- ists tion parties still permitted to func- tion were warned not to oppose Chancellor Hitler’s demand for a four-year dictatorship at today’s Reichstag meeting. The Nazis and Nationalists with nearly the necessary two-thirds votes in their own ranks, were con- fident of passage of the enabling act putting the Reichstag out of business and scrapping the Repub- lican constitution. Nevertheless the government served notice it would accept any opposition as “a declaration of war” and that such parties and their voters would suf- fer. The warning was directed par- |
ticularly at the Centrists and So-
cialists, the Communists not being allowed to take their seats. Meanwhile the first serious break between Hitler’s Nazis and their government associates, the Nation- alists, was reported in informed quarters in a dispute over the pre- miership of Prussia. The new Prussian Diet, which was to have elected a premier to- day, was indefinitely adjourned after its opening meeting yesterday by the Nazi speaker, Hans Kerrl. the Nazi members insisting on the selection of Capt. Hermann Goer- ing, Hitler’s chief aide, as premier, and the Nationalists equally adam- ant in backing President Von Hin- denburg’s close personal friend, Vice Chancellor Franz Von Papen, for the post. Hitler himself, it was reported, wanted his highest state office for his own as well as the Reich chancellorship, but apparently yielded to Von Papen. The latter heads the Nationalist majority in the Hitler cabinet, placed there by President Von Hindenburg to curb any redical tendencies of the Nazis. The Nazi “clean-up” campaign in berlin brought the closing today of kindergartens and music schools directed by Jews in the Prenzlau- er Berg section. Socialists and Communists were barred brom city clubhouses and athletic fields. A Communist leader was slain by a Nazi at Gelsenkirchen. The latter claimed to have acted in self-defens.e Monarchists demonstrations in various parts of the country mark- ed the birthday anniversary yes- terday of the last Kaiser’s grand- father Wilhelm I. |