GERMANY: Eliza Bruning

Chancellor Heinrich Bruning, that German Eliza who for the past 18 months has been leaping from one crisis to the next, landed on another ice floe last week and was saved for another half year from the bloodhounds of disaster.

Chancellor Bruning operates his Dictatorship under the cloak of Constitutional Government by the device of having the Reichstag meet every six months or so, rush through a vote of confidence, then immediately adjourn, leaving Herr Bruning to rule by decree. Last week the Reichstag met to pass on Dictator Bruning's latest "Emergency...

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