Speak Again, People!

How long can President Hindenberg, General Von Schleicher, and Dr. Von Papen continue to govern Germany without a Reichstag majority? It has been suggested that there is no constitutional limit to successive dissolutions of a Reichstag that has no majority, or a majority of the wrong colour. So long as President and Chancellor are in step, they can, it is alleged, dissolve any Reichstag that they consider out of step. Of course, if the vote of the people were a fixed, invariable factor, a repeated renewal of the electoral appeal to them would not alter the result, and would not remove the deadlock. But, in these times, believers in the fixity of popular opinion are not as numerous as in the day when democracy was green. So the de facto rulers are asking the people to think again, and return the right answer.