Foreign News: Hitler Stopped?

No sooner had 19,359,642 German ballots re-elected President von Hindenburg for a second seven-year term last week than audacious Adolf Hitler (who had won 13,417,460 votes) began talking of "My victory!"

Haranguing his brown-breasted Fascists from his "Brown House" in Munich, fiery Herr Hitler exhorted them to win the Prussian Diet election April 24, bade them remember that in national German elections the Fascist vote has climbed in round numbers thus:

Reichstag Election (1928): 800,000 votes.

" "(1930): 6,400,000

Presidential " (March 1932): 11,000,000

" " (last...

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