Preparing a Putsch

The air is charged with thunder. Signs are gathering that the extreme Nationalists (Royalists), headed by the Bavarian Adolf Hitler and General Ludendorff, intend to seize the present opportunity to start a sort of Fascist counter revolution.

The Nationalists point to the falling markā€”the Government's deficit is now $5,000,000 a day; to the strikes, although the Metal Workers' demands for a sliding wage have been granted and the men have returned to work; and, of course, to the Ruhr.

A Nationalist manifesto declares that " this...

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