The threatening storm which has hovered over Germany since the dissolution of the Reichstag last month (TIME, July 28 et seq.) gathered impetus and loosed itself in three cities last week.
At Nuremberg, Communists and Fascists (National Socialist Workers party) met for a debate which terminated in a free-for-all. Spectators amused themselves by pitching beer mugs and stones into the throng, injuring 70 contestants, among them three Fascist aldermen. Police charged and dispersed the rioters with truncheons and fire hose.
Thus violent already, the electioneering campaigns are expected to be increasingly vigorous as general...