Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

CHANCELLOR AT LAST 543with the Center: 'I venture to hope even today that, if not at once, then ina future that is perhaps not too far distant, it will be possible to broadenour front for the elimination of the menacing domestic dangers withinour nation.' Kaas replied indignantly: It was not true that the formationof a majority in the Reichstag had proved impossible; if he had receiveda satisfactory answer 'only in essential questions, ... the Center Party, inaccordance with its political principles, ... in awareness of the gravity ofthe hour, in selfless objectivity, would have been prepared to help thegovernment with its work.'Now Gurtner became Minister of Justice after all. Elections were setfor March 5, 1933. The final struggle for the people began.