Iron Victory: 97% Rye

In chastened mood the Reichstag reconvened last week from a six weeks recess, found that President Paul von Hindenburg had just legalized by executive decree 26 drastic retrenchment bills prepared by Prime Minister Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruening.

Political authorities agreed that the Reichstag if asked to debate and pass these bills one by one would have thrown them all out amid piercing Communist shrieks, frantic Fascist antics. All that the Reichstag was asked to do last week, however, was to ratify or nullify one simple decree signed HINDENBURG.

Once more that potent name worked magic. Tame as kittens, the Deputies ratified by a vote of 292 to 254.

As it became apparent during the week that what might have become legislative chaos would come to this gratifying end, German Government 57% ("Young Plan") Bonds climbed steadily from 68 (low for the year) to 74 (see p. 16). As the Bruning program went into law, rye bread ("97% pure rye") became the sole legal breadstuff in hotels, restaurants and all public eating places throughout Germany.

White bread can only be bought in bakeries "for home consumption," but Berlin newspapers gave credence to a curious rumor that the police will deal considerately with "people having weak stomachs," who bring their own white bread to restaurants, eat it there.

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