the semi-dictatorship in the name, and in defence, of democracy against fully-fledged dictatorship. Anyone who takes the trouble to study Brüning’s rule in depth will find all those factors which make this sort of government the inevitable forerunner of the very thing it is supposed to prevent: its discouragement of its own supporters; the way it undermines its own position; its acceptance of a loss of freedom; its lack of ideological weapons against enemy propaganda; the way it surrenders the initiative; and its collapse at the final moment when the issue is reduced to a simple question of
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