New Yorkers awoke to this headline.
“The Hitler government intends to adhere to the constitution, without establishing conditions of a state of emergency,” Nazi spokesmen Dr. William Frick told journalists in a press conference, according to an article appearing the next day in the Chicago Tribune. There had been rumors that Hitler intended to ignore the Constitution.
“We shall try no political experiments nor economic experiments of any kind, “ Frick said. “We want to live in peace and friendship with our neighbors.”
Hitler would require centrist support to govern, the newspaper noted.
And the German legislature was dissolved, with elections called for March 5. (Per Wikipedia)
Some violent clashes broke out between Nazi and Communist factions. One Nazi was killed and a policeman was shot from a darkened house.
In France, Edouard Daladier formed a new French government. A strong government was seen as desirable in the face of the Nazi takeover in Germany, but the new government seemed much the same as before, according to the Tribune.
Japan announced it would leave the League of Nations.
Additions and corrections welcome.
Yesterday, Jan. 30, 1933